Jim SHEKHDAR (1946-)

Jim Shekhdar This Is Your Life

programme details...

  • Edition No: 1075
  • Subject No: 1050
  • Broadcast date: Wed 25 Apr 2001
  • Broadcast time: 8.35-9.05pm
  • Recorded: Thu 12 Apr 2001
  • Venue: Teddington Studios
  • Series: 41
  • Edition: 22
  • Code name: Billy

on the guest list...

  • Andrew Lincoln
  • Jim Stone
  • Renata Prokova
  • Jan - sister
  • Sarah - daughter
  • Anna - daughter
  • Jane - wife
  • Bob - brother
  • Sacha - nephew
  • Bob Jelfs
  • Nigel Clutterbuck
  • Paul Unsworth
  • Paul Sivey
  • Terry Benstead
  • Iain Hutchison
  • Dr Peter McCartney
  • Roddy Jones
  • David Hunt
  • Nigel Horton
  • Ingrid Darracott
  • David Jackson
  • Vera Jelfs
  • Filmed tributes:
  • Martin Johnson
  • Lawrence Dallaglio
  • Jason Leonard
  • Gordon Burns
  • Prof Heinz Wolff
  • John Ridgway

production team...

  • Researchers: Emma Dooley, Alex Renton
  • Writer: Ian Brown
  • Director: Steve Docherty
  • Associate Producer: Helen Gordon-Smith
  • Executive Producer: John Longley
  • Series Producer: Jack Crawshaw
  • Producer: Sue Green
  • names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life
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Jim Shekhdar autobiography

Jim Shekhdar recalls his experience of This Is Your Life in his autobiography, Bold Man of the Sea...


This is Your Life was quick off the mark. I was in the middle of a thank you speech for a presentation by British Home Stores, one of my sponsors, when Michael Aspel crept up on me with the famous large red book. Jane and the girls had managed to keep the secret effectively, and I was amazed to be whisked to a television studio filled by many friends and acquaintances.


Michael Aspel could not have been more amiable, setting us all at ease, and I enjoyed the show. Mrs Jelfs, who had been so kind to me in my youth, emerged as the surprise appearance at the end of the programme, and she showed her mettle afterwards when she was, again, the last to leave the pub.


I was interested by the procedures of the show. One of my old university friends was brought from behind the screens, and he told a story that meant a lot to him and me, but not much to anyone else. So that element was simply cut and he did not appear in the broadcast of the final edited tape.

Series 41 subjects

Matthew Pinsent | Todd Carty | Vinnie Jones | Donald Woods | Linda Lusardi | Dorothy Tutin | Paula Tilbrook | John Humphrys
Andrew Davis | James Ellis | Sue Jenkins | Geoffrey Hughes | John van Weenen | Charles Dance | Mick Channon
Jonathan Ross | Simon Rouse | Midge Ure | John Barnes | Paul Jones | Patrick Robinson | Jim Shekhdar
Valerie Singleton | Darren Gough | Kevin Woodford | Richard Stilgoe