This Is Your Life: Charlie Chester

Charlie CHESTER (1914-1997)

THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Charlie Chester, comedian and presenter, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews outside the BBC Television Centre.

Known as "Cheerful" Charlie Chester, he was well known to British audiences in the 1940s from his BBC radio show Stand Easy. This show was adapted for television as The Charlie Chester Show in 1949 and became a stand up and sketch show for the next 11 years.

Chester's radio shows included A Proper Charlie and That Man Chester. Another series – which started out as a section of The Charlie Chester Show in 1950 – was the quiz Pot Luck, the first British TV programme to offer prizes for correctly answering questions.

programme details...

Edition No: 160
Subject No: 161
Broadcast live: Mon 17 Apr 1961
Broadcast time: 7.30-8.00pm
Venue: BBC Television Theatre
Series: 6
Edition: 31

on the guest list...

Albert Stevenson
George Pavey
Reginald Tidy
Reginald Dean
Mrs Manser - mother
Regimental Sergeant-Major Larkin
George Black
Eric Grier
'Tug' Wilson
Margaret Govaghon
Leslie Bridgmont
Eric Robinson
Len Martin
Louise Gainsborough
Ken Morris
Ramon St Clair
Arthur Haynes

production team...

Researchers: Ronald Vivian, Virginia Ropner
Writer: Peter Moore
Director: Michael Goodwin
Producer: T Leslie Jackson

names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life

related page...

It's a Funny Old Life

it's all about the comedy

Photographs of Charlie Chester This Is Your Life

Series 6 subjects