David Jason: My Life Audiobook (Free)

David Jason: My Life, now available as an unabridged audiobook.

National Book Honours Autobiography of the entire year 2013.

Born the son of the Billingsgate market porter at the elevation of the next World Battle, David Jason spent his early life dodging bombs and bullies, both with impish great timing. Quitting with an unloved career as an electrician, he transformed his focus on acting and shortly, through a natural talent to make people laugh, discovered himself working with the leading lighting of British about David Jason: MY ENTIRE LIFE comedy in the 1960s and ’70s: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Bob Monkhouse and Ronnie Barker. Barker would become a coach to David, leading to hugely successful stints in Porridge and Open All Hours.

It wasn’t until 1981, kitted out using a sheepskin coat, a flat cap, and a clapped-out Reliant Regal, that David found the part that would capture the nation’s hearts: the cherished Derek ‘Del Boy’ Trotter in Only Fools and Horses. Hardly ever a one-trick pony, he previously an award-winning spell as TV’s preferred detective Jack Frost, took a country jaunt as Pop Larkin in the Darling Buds of May, as well as voiced a crime-fighting cartoon rodent in the much-loved children’s present Danger Mouse.

But existence hasn’t all been very easy: from missing out on a key part in Dad’s Army to nearly drowning inside a freak diving incident, David has already established his fair talk about of ups and downs, and has dropped a few of his nearest and dearest on the way.

David’s is certainly a touching, funny and warm-hearted tale, which charts the span of his incredible five decades at the top of the entertainment business. He’s been a shopkeeper and a detective inspector, a crime-fighter and a market trader, and he ain’t finished however. As Del Boy would say, it’s all cushty.

The introduction to the David Jason audiobook is usually narrated by David himself.