Big Red Book
Celebrating television's This Is Your Life
Kenneth REVIS MBE (1917-2002)
THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Kenneth Revis, former Royal Engineers Officer, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews outside the BBC Television Theatre.
After leaving Bedford School, Ken trained as a civil engineer, and worked on the reconstruction of the Loddon Bridge in Berkshire. He joined the Royal Engineers on the outbreak of war. He was assigned to bomb disposal, and in September 1943 he lost his sight when 13 mines exploded while he was attempting to diffuse them close to Brighton’s West Pier.
Despite his disability Ken became a representative of St Dunstan's charity for the blind in India, served as a press officer for Morris Motors, and later qualified as a solicitor.
programme details...
- Edition No: 197
- Subject No: 198
- Broadcast date: Tue 9 Oct 1962
- Broadcast time: 7.55-8.25pm
- Recorded: Mon 8 Oct 1962
- Venue: BBC Television Theatre
- Series: 8
- Edition: 2
on the guest list...
- Gordon Marnock
- George Snarey
- Ronald Rogers
- Jack Hamer
- Jo – wife
- Frederick Ward
- Joan, Viscountess Buckmaster
- Bill Scott-Comber
- Jane Martyn
- Colin Glynne-Jones
- Brian Hartness
- Roy Chester
- Rita the dog
production team...
- Directors: Vere Lorrimer, Mark Patterson
- Producer: T Leslie Jackson
saluting the armed forces
Series 8 subjects
Rupert Davies | Kenneth Revis | Sydney MacEwan | Cleo Laine | Arthur Baldwin | Edith Sitwell | Ben Fuller | Robert Henry McIntoshMabel Lethbridge | Stephen Behan | Ruby Miller | Richard Attenborough | Daniel Kirkpatrick | Michael Wilson | Dick Hoskin
James Carroll | Uffa Fox | George Thomas Cummins | Hattie Jacques | Sam Derry | Finlay Currie | Phyllis Lumley | Ben Lyon
Bertie Tibble | Zena Dare | Victor Willcox | Learie Constantine | Phyllis Richards | Michael Bentine | Joe Loss | Gladys Aylward