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Celebrating television's This Is Your Life
Dick HOSKIN
THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Dick Hoskin, charity organiser, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews in the audience at the BBC Television Theatre.
Dick, born and raised in Lancaster, broke his back in an accident in 1936 while working as a fireman. Despite his injuries he served in the army during the Second World War and took part in concert parties.
His enthusiasm for performing led him to become involved in amateur dramatics after the war, back in his home town of Colne, staging pantomimes which, at the time of his This Is Your Life tribute, had raised more than £50,000 for charity.
programme details...
- Edition No: 210
- Subject No: 211
- Broadcast live: Tue 15 Jan 1963
- Broadcast time: 8.00-8.25pm
- Recorded: Mon 7 Jan 1963 8.00pm
- Venue: BBC Television Theatre
- Series: 8
- Edition: 15
on the guest list...
- children from pantomime:
- Glenda
- Margaret
- Margaret
- Christine
- Paul
- Peter Adamson
- William Credie
- Richard Allan
- Greta – wife
- Sydney Munroe
- Tommy Leece
- Eileen Harrison
- Mildred Waite – daughter
- Harry Kenyon
- Jack Storey
- Clifford – son
- Leslie – sons
production team...
- Director: Vere Lorrimer
- Producer: T Leslie Jackson
related pages...
Series 8 subjects
Rupert Davies | Kenneth Revis | Sydney MacEwan | Cleo Laine | Arthur Baldwin | Edith Sitwell | Ben Fuller | Robert Henry McIntoshMabel Lethbridge | Stephen Behan | Ruby Miller | Richard Attenborough | Daniel Kirkpatrick | Michael Wilson | Dick Hoskin
James Carroll | Uffa Fox | George Thomas Cummins | Hattie Jacques | Sam Derry | Finlay Currie | Phyllis Lumley | Ben Lyon
Bertie Tibble | Zena Dare | Victor Willcox | Learie Constantine | Phyllis Richards | Michael Bentine | Joe Loss | Gladys Aylward