Sir Chris BONINGTON CBE (1934-)

Chris Bonington This Is Your Life
  • This Is Your Life's last ever outside broadcast

programme details...

  • Edition No: 1126
  • Subject No: 1100
  • Broadcast date: Thu 3 Jul 2003
  • Broadcast time: 7.00-7.30pm
  • Recorded: Tue 15 Apr 2003
  • Venue: National Mountaineering Exhibition, Rheged, Cumbria
  • Series: 43
  • Edition: 21
  • Code name: Peak

on the guest list...

  • Wendy - wife
  • Rupert - son
  • Anton Belton
  • Louise Wilson
  • Frances Daltrey
  • Betty Prentice
  • Alison Lancaster
  • Margaret Trinder
  • Maggie Boddie
  • Hamish MacInnes
  • Geoff Francis
  • Ian McNaught-Davis
  • Gerald - half brother
  • Rosemary - half sister
  • Clive Rowland
  • Arne Naess
  • Terry Vasey
  • Ann - daughter-in-law
  • Emily - granddaughter
  • Daniel - son
  • Jude - daughter-in-law
  • Filmed tributes:
  • Brian Blessed
  • Sherpa Pertemba
  • Reinhold Messner
  • Sir Robin Knox-Johnston

production team...

  • Researchers: Deborah Cowan, Alex Renton
  • Writer: Ian Brown
  • Director: John Gorman
  • Associate Producer: Helen Gordon-Smith
  • Series Producer: Jack Crawshaw
  • Producer: Sue Green
  • names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life
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The Westmorland Gazette 17 April 2003


This is your life at Rheged


POPULAR television programme This Is Your Life was transplanted to the Penrith visitor attraction Rheged this week when famous mountaineer Sir Chris Bonington became the subject of Michael Aspel's big red book.


After being surprised at Heathrow, Sir Chris travelled to his home county of Cumbria for an evening of excitement, emotion and surprises, as the programme was filmed against a backdrop of Rheged waterfalls, lake and architecture.


Sir Chris said: "It was a fantastic surprise and absolutely wonderful having my family and so many old friends assembled together."


No date has been given for the BBC1 programme's broadcast.

Series 43 subjects

David Dickinson | Mo Mowlam | Gillian Taylforth | Mike Rutherford | John McArdle | Elmer Bernstein | Charles Collingwood
Jonathan Davies | Elizabeth Pescops | George Best | Lisa Maxwell | Roger Cook | Bob Monkhouse | Nicholas Winton
Anthony Andrews | Alex Norton | John Bardon | Simon Cowell | Alec Stewart | Vic Armstrong | Chris Bonington
John Middleton | Bob Harris | Gyles Brandreth | Aled Jones