Keith FLOYD (1943-2009)

Keith Floyd This Is Your Life

programme details...

  • Edition No: 812
  • Subject No: 802
  • Broadcast date: Wed 23 Oct 1991
  • Broadcast time: 7.00-7.30pm
  • Recorded: Tue 20 Aug 1991
  • Venue: Teddington Studios
  • Series: 32
  • Edition: 2
  • Code name: Soup

on the guest list...

  • Patrick - son
  • Poppy - daughter
  • Winnifred - mother
  • Shauna Mullett - fiancée
  • John Miles
  • David Pritchard
  • Lyn Ratzie
  • Ray Gravell
  • Roger Bennett
  • Jeremy Bryan
  • Robin Evans
  • Mark Benson
  • Joy Benson
  • Hugh Cornwell
  • Albert Roux
  • Pierre Connille
  • Albert Gassiaux
  • Filmed tributes:
  • residents of L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue
  • Bill Wyman

production team...

  • Researcher: Elizabeth Ross
  • Writer: Roy Bottomley
  • Directors: Brian Klein, Terry Yarwood
  • Associate Producer: John Graham
  • Producer: Malcolm Morris
  • names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life
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Keith Floyd autobiography

Keith Floyd recalls This Is Your Life in his autobiography, Out of the Frying Pan: Scenes From My Life...


At the time I was blissfully naïve about all of that, I was just drinking my coffee and sitting on the edge, enthralled by the way these people spoke, the books and the music they discussed.


In fact I was in such a trance, it was only when, something like thirty years later, to my amazement I was accosted in Dublin by Michael Aspel and kidnapped onto This Is Your Life that I discovered anything about these people. Before the guests come on to This Is Your Life you hear their voices and they say something which is designed to jog your memory of some past event. I heard this voice saying, 'Floydsie, you still owe me for a suit!' I sat there like a stoat under a snake, or vice versa. Who the fuck was that? Then I remembered. It was Jeremy Bryan, a brilliant reporter from the Bristol Evening Post, with whom one night I had set off to cover a fire or a plane crash or some disaster. In fact, it wasn't even that. We were all in the pub, the White Hart, and as far as we were concerned, work was over and we had probably had a few too many. The phone rang in the pub and the landlord called Jeremy over and said, 'You've had a phone call and you've got to go.' 'I want to come too!' I shouted. 'In fact, I'll take you there, because I've got a motor scooter.' Well, we crashed. Wrecked Jeremy's suit, never did get to the disaster, and spent the whole night in the Bristol Royal Infirmary, not seriously wounded in any way, just with scratches and bruises.


Another great This Is Your Life surprise that night involved a wonderful Evening Post journalist called Roger Bennett, who, a little bit like the Country Editor of the Western Daily Press, had always impressed upon me the importance of acknowledging people as you travel through life. Indeed many years after the time we are talking about now, Roger Bennett went on to become a very successful broadcaster at the BBC. Whenever I was in town he would always ring me up and ask me to go onto his programme and I always would. He said to me one day, 'There are some people we both know who are now very famous (much more famous than me) who don't have the time to come onto the programme.'

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...


Other researchers have followed the same pattern as Sue Green.


They, too, have been seeking the vital piece of information which will give us the best impact start to the programmes. The pick-up is all-important to the Life.


First information on broadcasting chef Keith Floyd is not what we wanted on our menu.


It seems he will not be at his Devon pub where we hoped to surprise him with Michael Aspel popping in for a pint. Instead, Keith will be in Dublin.


The wheels are set in motion for the pick-up team, with Michael, to be in Dublin on the same day, surprise Keith and fly him back to our studios here at Teddington. His codename is 'Soup', but it looked for a while as though we could be in it. We finally track him down in Dublin – to a pub, and Michael pops in for a pint.



Keith Floyd This Is Your Life


Keith Floyd This Is Your Life

Series 32 subjects

Paul Nicholas | Keith Floyd | Gwyneth Jones | Norman Painting | Thelma Barlow | Nobby Stiles | Bernard Manning
Elizabeth McColgan | Michael Nicholson | Pam Ferris | David Berglas | Gary Glitter | Nigel Havers | Mo Moreland
Tony Blackburn | Wendy Toye | Alan Bleasdale | George Shearing | Jim Howard | Kevin Lloyd | Josef Locke
Robert Lindsay | Hannah Hauxwell | Rory Underwood | Susan Hampshire | Chris De Burgh