Jack TRAIN (1902-1966)

Jack Train This Is Your Life

programme details...

  • Edition No: 41
  • Subject No: 41
  • Broadcast live: Mon 11 Nov 1957
  • Broadcast time: 7.30-8.00pm
  • Venue: BBC Television Theatre
  • Series: 3
  • Edition: 7

on the guest list...

  • Mrs Knapman
  • Alec Luckes
  • Cdr Sydney Russell
  • Wally Goodman
  • Harry Grose
  • William Owen
  • Archie de Bear
  • Horace Percival
  • Dr Walter 'Paddy' Halley
  • Pat McGowan
  • Dorothy Summers
  • Sydney Keith
  • Clarence Wright
  • Dino Galvani
  • Maurice Denham
  • Fred Yule
  • Ted Kavanagh
  • Fay - wife
  • Filmed tribute:
  • Eddie Gray

production team...

  • Researchers: Nigel Ward, Ray Marler
  • Writer: Peter Moore
  • Director: unknown
  • Producer: T Leslie Jackson
  • names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life
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The Stage article: Jack Train This Is Your Life

The Stage 14 November 1957


'This Is Your Life'


THE flashback of the life of Jack Train provided interesting viewing on BBC-TV on Monday, although the last few moments of the programme when he was delightedly greeted by his miniature white poodle which had been waiting for him behind the scenes, were more moving and more illuminating than much of the recalling of old memories which had gone before.


The ordeal of sitting in the public gaze whilst voices and names which haven't been heard for years were flashed before the victim in confusing profusion and speed, frequently results in the emotional aspect ousting the piquancy and entertainment value of the programme, but fortunately the programme has Eamonn Andrews, prince of comperes, to gloss swiftly over the moments when the programme is endangered through no fault of the personality involved.


Depicted against a station background and with a miniature comic engine tracing his ups and downs with sparkling humour, the life of Jack Train served well to illustrate the lives of many radio and variety personalities whose humour and hard work in the face of adversity has seen them through the days of misfortune to sunnier times.


Helping to make the programme interesting were Archie de Bear, Eddie Gray, Horace Perceval, Dorothy Summers, Sydney Keith, Clarence Wright, Dino Galvani, Fred Yule, Maurice Denham and Ted Kavanagh.

Series 3 subjects

Albert Whelan | Colin Hodgkinson | Vera Lynn | Arthur Christiansen | John Logie Baird | Richard Carr-Gomm | Jack Train
Edith Powell | Anne Brusselmans | Norman Wisdom | Victor Silvester | Jack Petersen | Lucy Jane Dobson
David Bell | Matt Busby | Minnie Barnard | Gordon Steele | Louie Ramsay | Tubby Clayton | Daniel Angel
Anna Neagle | 'Dapper' Channon | Frederick Stone | Paul Field | Noel Purcell | Barbara Cartland
Harry Secombe | Archie Rowe | Humphrey Lyttelton | Francis Cammaerts | A E Matthews