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Celebrating television's This Is Your Life
Phyllis LUMLEY
- The first time a subject was told of the surprise prior to the programme
THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Phyllis Lumley, foster mother, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews backstage at the BBC Television Theatre.
Phyllis was born without arms, but despite her disability she had seven children of her own, and became a mother to many others, through fostering.
Eamonn Andrews announces at the beginning of the programme – “Tonight, This Is Your Life has relaxed its most rigid rule in order to tell one of its greatest stories. For the first time in eight years and 216 programmes, we told our Guest of Honour our plans just an hour ago.”
programme details...
- Edition No: 217
- Subject No: 218
- Broadcast: Tue 5 Mar 1963
- Broadcast time: 7.55-8.25pm
- Recorded: Mon 18 Feb 1963 8.00pm
- Venue: BBC Television Theatre
- Series: 8
- Edition: 22
on the guest list...
- Lady Hoare
- Grace Fisher
- Vera Comley (nee Byng)
- Jack – husband
- Alex Woolfe
- Gwen Franklin
- Bert Tracey
- Maria Pisula
- Seema Jeelany
- Tam Pau Sang
- Sui Chee
- Marie – daughter
- Veronica – daughter
- Roy – son
- Johnny – son
- Larry - son
- Sonya - daughter
- Mark – son
production team...
- Director: Vere Lorrimer
- Producer: T Leslie Jackson
related pages...
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