Barbara CARTLAND (1901-2000)

Barbara Cartland This Is Your Life

programme details...

  • Edition No: 60
  • Subject No: 60
  • Broadcast live: Mon 24 Mar 1958
  • Broadcast time: 8.00-8.30pm
  • Venue: BBC Television Theatre
  • Series: 3
  • Edition: 26

on the guest list...

  • Polly - mother
  • Clare Wade
  • Freda Breitmayer
  • Georges Carpentier
  • Ivy Allen
  • Gp Capt Edward Mole
  • Mrs Koby
  • Joyce Camden
  • William Knight
  • Ald J A Canvin
  • Raine, Viscountess Lewisham - daughter
  • Elfrida Eden

production team...

  • Researchers: George Bruce, Bill Nolan
  • Writer: Nigel Ward
  • Director: Vere Lorrimer
  • Producer: T Leslie Jackson
  • names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life
  • with thanks to Ian McCorquodale for his contribution to this page
related pages...

Barbara Cartland

second tribute


A Novel Life

a page-turning good read


Life Second Time Around

surprised again!


The Audience

the applause, laughter and tears


Producing Life

the producers who steered the programme's success


The Big Red Book

the programme's icon


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Photographs of Barbara Cartland This Is Your Life - and a photograph of Barbara Cartland's big red book

Barbara Cartland autobiography

Barbara Cartland recalls her experience of This Is Your Life in her autobiography, We Danced All Night...


In May 1922, 2LO broadcast a commentary on a boxing match between Kid Lewis and the handsome heart-throb Georges Carpentier at Olympia. Of course, the Daily Mail was behind the enterprise, which I didn't see as I disliked boxing; but I was present at the three-minute Carpentier-Beckett fight at the Holborn Stadium in 1919, when the gate money of £30,000 broke all records.


When Eamonn Andrews interviewed me in the programme This Is Your Life in 1958 the BBC flew Georges Carpentier from France to meet me, Eamonn said to him:


'Wasn't it quite a new thing in 1919 for ladies to watch boxing?'


'In those days perhaps it was,' Carpentier replied, 'but it was always evening dress at the ringside, you know, and boxing had become a fashionable sport.'


'You were something of a social lion too, Georges.'


'People were very kind,' Carpentier smiled, 'and I enjoyed myself. I met many charming people over here, and I think of my visits with great affection. Ladies like Miss Cartland made me realise that, despite the war, England still retained something of the old elegance.'


'We were in love with you,' I told him as he kissed my hand.

Series 3 subjects

Albert Whelan | Colin Hodgkinson | Vera Lynn | Arthur Christiansen | John Logie Baird | Richard Carr-Gomm | Jack Train
Edith Powell | Anne Brusselmans | Norman Wisdom | Victor Silvester | Jack Petersen | Lucy Jane Dobson
David Bell | Matt Busby | Minnie Barnard | Gordon Steele | Louie Ramsay | Tubby Clayton | Daniel Angel
Anna Neagle | 'Dapper' Channon | Frederick Stone | Paul Field | Noel Purcell | Barbara Cartland
Harry Secombe | Archie Rowe | Humphrey Lyttelton | Francis Cammaerts | A E Matthews