#michael jayston

I remember the first time I met Michael Jayston, we were chatting about this and that, and for some reason I mentioned that sometimes I fear having trouble being taken seriously as a professional, as I do tend to look a bit young for my age.

“Really?” he said. “Because you honestly don’t look a day over 64.”

Oh Michael, you ol’ smoothie. I do enjoy a bit of ridiculous banter.

Who fans - and if you’re reading this, you probably are one - will remember Jayston’s understated, menacing performance as the ScrapyardBarnyardJunkyard Valeyard in the show’s Trial Of A Time Lord season, a role he has since reprises in the Big Finish audios He Jests At Scars and the recent Trial Of The Valeyard. He’s been in far too many other things to list them all; that said, I would be remiss if I failed to mention his performance opposite Alec Guinness in the fabulous BBC adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

Then there was the time I mentioned being a lapsed academic, and he looked at me incredulously, and said “did you say you’re a lapdancer?” and I laughed so hard I could barely breathe. So thank you for that, sir.

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