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THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Rob Buckman, doctor, comedian and author, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews while filming a comedy sketch at University College Hospital in London.

Rob, who was born in Hampstead, London, studied at University College School and graduated in medicine from St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1972. He continued his medical training at the Royal Marsden Hospital and University College Hospital, London, before becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.

While at Cambridge, he performed with the University Footlights and, after graduating, continued to appear in comedy revues at the Hampstead Theatre Club and the Mermaid Theatre, which led to appearances on several television and radio programmes, including BBC radio's Just a Minute and ITV's The Pink Medicine Show and Don't Ask Me.

"Oh come on... this is a terrible impersonation of Eamonn Andrews! Who's paying you to do this? Can I get parole or something?"

programme details...

• Edition No: 579
• Subject No: 576
• Broadcast date: Wed 18 Nov 1981
• Broadcast time: 7.00-7.30pm
• Recorded: Tue 29 Sep 1981
• Venue: Royalty Theatre
• Series: 22
• Edition: 6
• Code name: Panther

on the guest list...

• Chris Beetles
• Lynda Bellingham
• Joan - wife
• Bernard - father
• Irene - mother
• Jenny - sister
• Peter - brother
• Richard Morrison
• Rob Abbey
• Julie Covington
• Maggie Henderson
• Pete Atkin
• Jonathan James-Moore
• Magnus Pyke
• Paul Smith
• Miriam Stoppard
• Peter Radford
• Joanna - daughter
• Susan - daughter
Filmed tribute:
• Bernard Miles

production team...

• Researcher: Cathy Parnall
• Writers: Tom Brennand, Roy Bottomley
• Directors: Paul Stewart Laing, Terry Yarwood
• Producer: Jack Crawshaw

• names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life

A Medical Life

examining the medical profession

Lynda Bellingham

Magnus Pyke

Screenshots of Rob Buckman This Is Your Life