Kenneth HORNE (1907-1969)

Kenneth Horne This Is Your Life

programme details...

  • Edition No: 184
  • Subject No: 185
  • Broadcast live: Mon 19 Feb 1962
  • Broadcast time: 7.30-8.00pm
  • Venue: BBC Television Theatre
  • Series: 7
  • Edition: 21

on the guest list...

  • Doreen Wherrett
  • Ann Graham
  • H W 'Bunny' Austin
  • Reginald Anscombe
  • Norman Bo Aylward
  • Richard Murdoch
  • Kenneth Horne (playwright)
  • Sir Miles Thomas
  • Carole Carr
  • Marjorie – wife
  • Yvonne Buckingham
  • Susan Montague – stepdaughter
  • Happy Horne – budgie
  • Ted Heath (with 5 saxophonists)
  • Filmed tributes:
  • Kenneth Williams
  • Sam Costa

production team...

  • names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life
  • with thanks to Sue Montague for her contribution to this page
related pages...

It's a Funny Old Life

it's all about the comedy


The Big Red Book

the programme's icon


David Croft


Ted Heath


Interviews

Sue Montague, stepdaughter of Kenneth Horne, recalls this edition of This Is Your Life in an exclusive interview recorded in April 2013

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Photographs of Kenneth Horne This Is Your Life - and a photograph of Kenneth Horne's big red book

Kenneth Horne's biography

Writer Barry Johnston briefly mentions This Is Your Life in his biography Round Mr Horne...


The following day Kenneth was caught by Eamonn Andrews with his famous red book when he was the subject of This is Your Life. Among the guests on the BBC TV show were Richard Murdoch and Sam Costa, Kenneth Williams, Bunny Austin, ‘Bo’ Aylward, Sir Miles Thomas of BOAC, the bandleader Ted Heath with his sax section, and Susan, who had to walk on carrying Happy the Budgerigar in his cage.

Series 7 subjects

Max Bygraves | Mario Borrelli | Alastair Pearson | Brian Rix | Derek Dooley | Elizabeth Twistington Higgins | Sandy MacPherson
Ronald Menday | Harry Day | Peter Finch | Charlie Drake | Timothy Cain | Isabella Woodford | David Park | Sefton Delmer
Coco the Clown | Jenny Gleed | Arthur E Davies | Tom Evans | David Pelham James | Kenneth Horne | Marie Rambert | David Butler
Glen Moody | Kenneth Cooke | Tom Breaks | Dora Bryan | Bob Oatway | Acker Bilk | Hester Meakin | Joe Filliston | Ellaline Terriss