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Celebrating television's This Is Your Life
Isabella WOODFORD MBE (1873-1966)
THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Isabella Woodford, former nurse, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews in the Buckinghamshire village of Quainton.
Isabella trained at The Royal Victoria Infirmary Newcastle, and went on to work at The Queen Charlotte’s Hospital, London, before becoming Assistant Matron at Dundee Infirmary.
After the First World War, Isabella became Matron at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, and later Matron of SCIO House Hospital - a hospital catering for military officers in London's Putney.
For this special Christmas Day edition each guest brings Isabella a present, and the tribute ends with all the guests sitting down to a Christmas dinner.
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Max Bygraves | Mario Borrelli | Alastair Pearson | Brian Rix | Derek Dooley | Elizabeth Twistington Higgins | Sandy MacPherson