This Is Your Life: James Zarb

James ZARB

THIS IS YOUR LIFE - James Zarb, businessman, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews in the audience at the BBC Television Theatre.

James became a national news story while serving a ten year prison sentence in a Cairo jail on a charge ‘of acting as a British Agent’. He was born in Egypt of Maltese parents, and served with the RAF during the Second World War, achieving the rank of Flight Sergeant.

Following the war he spent a year in Belgrade with the Military Mission, before settling in Alexandra, Egypt, where he married, started a family and established a successful business. He was arrested in August 1956 and imprisoned in a Cairo jail. Following a lengthy campaign to clear him he was released - just three weeks before this tribute was recorded.

programme details...

Edition No: 153
Subject No: 153
Broadcast date: Mon 27 Feb 1961
Broadcast time: 7.30-8.00pm
Recorded: Wed 22 Feb 1961 8.00pm
Venue: BBC Television Theatre
Series: 6
Edition: 24

on the guest list...

Major James Miller
Victor Manley
Fred Miles
Lilian Bruno (nee Caffary)
John Stanley
Frank Goldsworthy
Eva Harris
pupils of form 4B Roding Junior School, Woodford Bridge, Essex
Mary Unsworth
Elda – wife
Mary – daughter
Anne Marie – daughter
Marlene – daughter
Gerald – son
Father Mengoli

production team...

Researcher: John Sandilands
Writer: John Sandilands
Director: Michael Goodwin
Producer: T Leslie Jackson

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