Journeyman: an Autobiography by Ewan MacColl (Sidgwick and Jackson, £16.95) EWAN MacColl wrote eight plays, ..
... End Threepenny Opera, co-founded Theatre Workshop, and only abandoned the theatre to become a prime mover in the folk music revival. He left school in Salford at the height of the Depression. Suspect as the son of a well-known left-wing union activist, himself a member of the Young Communist League, he found jobs hard to get and even harder to hold. So, along with YCL friends who had been ...