This Is Your Life: Isabella Woodford

Isabella WOODFORD MBE (1873-1966)

The first edition to be broadcast on Christmas Day

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.

programme details...

Edition No: 176
Subject No: 177
Broadcast: Mon 25 Dec 1961
Broadcast time: 7.25-8.00pm
Recorded: Mon 18 Dec 1961 8.00pm
Venue: BBC Television Theatre
Series: 7
Edition: 13

on the guest list...

Cecily Dymock
Bill Brooks
Edith Wootten
Alan Moore
Nurse Pat Bainbridge
Jocelyn Symon
Muriel Kerr
Dick Lee
Olive Prentice OBE
William Coffey DCM
Sister Ethel Venning
Bill Cassidy
Alvar Liddell
Mrs Tremlow
Mr Wootten
Mr Harrison
William Moore - cousin
John Clay FRCS

production team...

Researchers: Nickola Sterne, Arthur Sellwood
Writers: Nickola Sterne, Arthur Sellwood
Director: Yvonne Littlewood
Producer: T Leslie Jackson

with thanks to Alan Moore for his contribution to this page

related pages...

A Medical Life

examining the medical profession

Timeline

the show's fifty year history

Photographs of Isabella Woodford This Is Your Life

Series 7 subjects