John SURTEES MBE (1934-2017)

John Surtees This Is Your Life

programme details...

  • Edition No: 850
  • Subject No: 839
  • Broadcast date: Wed 30 Dec 1992
  • Broadcast time: 7.00-7.30pm
  • Recorded: Sun 6 Dec 1992
  • Venue: Grosvenor House Hotel
  • Series: 33
  • Edition: 14
  • Code name: Flag

on the guest list...

  • Jane - wife
  • Dorothy - mother
  • Dorothy - sister
  • Barry Sheene
  • Raymond Baxter
  • Sammy Miller
  • Bill Lomas
  • Arturo Magni
  • Ken Tyrrell
  • Derek Bell
  • Jackie Stewart
  • Willie Green
  • Edwina - daughter
  • Leonora - daughter
  • Henry - son
  • Filmed tributes:
  • Stirling Moss
  • Jack Brabham
  • Eric Broadley
  • Juan Fangio

production team...

  • Researcher: Sarah Ann Cockcroft
  • Writer: Norman Giller
  • Directors: Brian Klein, Malcolm Morris
  • Associate Producer: John Graham
  • Producer: Malcolm Morris
  • names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life
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Roy Bottomley This Is Your Life book

Scriptwriter Roy Bottomley recalls this edition of This Is Your Life in his book, This Is Your Life: The Story of Television's Famous Big Red Book...


Nigel Mansell turned up as Michael Aspel's 'chauffeur' to drop him at the Grosvenor House hotel in Park Lane on the evening of 6 December 1992. The occasion was the annual 'Autosport' dinner, and we had a surprise for a man who has been world champion first on two wheels, then on four – John Surtees.


We flew in Barry Sheene from his home in Brisbane. Former world champion on four wheels Jackie Stewart was also there.


And we had a greeting from Argentinian motor-racing legend Juan Fangio, who spoke to John in Italian, the language they learned when they both raced for Ferrari.

Series 33 subjects

Barbara Windsor | Dickie Bird | Frazer Hines | Pat Kerr | Juliet Mills | William Tarmey | Ellen Pollock | Tessa Sanderson
Peter Saunders | Anthony Newley | Bert Weedon | Glen Murphy | Les Dawson | John Surtees | Shirley Bassey
Albert and Michel Roux | Anthony Jones | Lynda Bellingham | Frank Bruno | Johnnie Hamp | Honor Blackman | Sister Aquinas
Roddy McDowall | Jimmy White | Peggy Spencer | Jackie Collins | Derek Fowlds | Nat Lofthouse | Ann Miller | George Melly