Acker BILK (Bernard Stanley BILK) (1929-2014)

Acker Bilk This Is Your Life

programme details...

  • Edition No: 192
  • Subject No: 193
  • Broadcast live: Mon 16 Apr 1962
  • Broadcast time: 8-8.30pm
  • Venue: BBC Television Theatre
  • Series: 7
  • Edition: 29

on the guest list...

  • George Lewis
  • Ella Harris
  • Holy Baber
  • Zank Sawyer
  • Sergeant Chisholm
  • Gordon Hazel
  • George 'Curly' Ireland
  • Jean - wife
  • Chew Valley Band
  • Carl Lyrrman
  • Stanley Unwin
  • Peter - son
  • Nora Ellerker
  • Dave - brother
  • Lilian - mother
  • Filmed tribute:
  • Colston Mortimer

production team...

  • Researchers: Alfred Draper, John Ralph
  • Writer: Alfred Draper
  • Story editor: John Sandilands
  • Director: Yvonne Littlewood
  • Producer: T Leslie Jackson
  • names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life
related pages...

All that Jazz

covering all the notes


The Big Red Book

the programme's icon


Interviews

Acker Bilk recalls his experience of This Is Your Life in an exclusive interview recorded in January 2010

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Photographs of Acker Bilk This Is Your Life - and Acker Bilk photographed at his home with his big red book in January 2010

Series 7 subjects

Max Bygraves | Mario Borrelli | Alastair Pearson | Brian Rix | Derek Dooley | Elizabeth Twistington Higgins | Sandy MacPherson
Ronald Menday | Harry Day | Peter Finch | Charlie Drake | Timothy Cain | Isabella Woodford | David Park | Sefton Delmer
Coco the Clown | Jenny Gleed | Arthur E Davies | Tom Evans | David Pelham James | Kenneth Horne | Marie Rambert | David Butler
Glen Moody | Kenneth Cooke | Tom Breaks | Dora Bryan | Bob Oatway | Acker Bilk | Hester Meakin | Joe Filliston | Ellaline Terriss