Acker BILK (Bernard Stanley BILK) (1929-)

Acker Bilk

Acker Bilk at home in January 2010

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THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Acker Bilk, clarinetist and jazz musician, who had a huge hit with a recording of his own composition Stranger on the Shore, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at a newly built centre for handicapped youngsters in Slough.

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

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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 listed in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life
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