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THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Joan Stanton, pianist, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews in the audience at the BBC Television Theatre.

Joan, from Wolverhampton, began to lose her sight from the age of eleven, and by her late teens was completely blind.

She underwent an operation twenty years later to correct her blindness.

programme details...

• Edition No: 231
• Subject No: 232
• Broadcast date: Thu 31 Oct 1963
• Broadcast time: 8.35-9.00pm
• Recorded: Tues 8 Oct 1963 8.00pm
• Venue: Costa Green Studios, Birmingham
• Series: 9
• Edition: 5

on the guest list...

• David Bewley
• Alice Matthews – mother
• Nancy Marrs (nee Rowley)
• Gwen – sister
• Ray Stanton – husband
• Lorna Pring
• Sister Burton
• Dr Biswas
• Bertha Braithwaite
• Roger - son
• Leslie - son
• Joan - daughter
• Maria – daughter
• Vincent – son
• Stephen – son

production team...

• Director: Michael Goodwin
• Producer: Vere Lorrimer
• Executive Producer: T Leslie Jackson

A Musical Life

blowing a trumpet for the musicians