This Is Your Life: Miriam Jowett

Miriam JOWETT MBE

THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Miriam Jowett, British Red Cross officer, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the BBC Television Theatre, having been led to believe she was there to record an appeal to commemorate the centenary of the Red Cross movement.

Miriam volunteered with the Red Cross while working as a clerk in a London bank before becoming a full-time welfare officer with the organisation in 1944. She was sent to Arromanches and Bayeux in France to help with the casualties in the aftermath of D-Day.

In 1945 she was in Berlin, where she helped rehabilitate British nationals suffering from disease and starvation at the end of the Second World War. By 1950 Miriam was director of the Glamorgan branch of the British Red Cross based in Cardiff, where she established a Sunshine Club to help the old, poor, sick and lonely residents.

programme details...

Edition No: 90
Subject No: 90
Broadcast live: Mon 16 Mar 1959
Broadcast time: 7.30-8.00pm
Venue: BBC Television Theatre
Series: 4
Edition: 25

on the guest list...

Margaret McGaw
Evelyn Bark
Judy Herbst
Patrick Herbst
Helga Haasler
Douglas Wych - in audience
Violet Mamsch
Thomas Humphries
Cecily Kearslake
Robert Townsend
Brenda Roberts
Father Joseph Kreps
members of the Abbey Du Mont Cesar choir
Paul Underhill

production team...

Researcher: Ronald Vivian
Writer: Ronald Vivian
Director: Vere Lorrimer
Producer: T Leslie Jackson

names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life

related pages...

A Medical Life

examining the medical profession

Evelyn Bark

Photographs of Miriam Jowett This Is Your Life

Series 4 subjects