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Celebrating television's This Is Your Life
Professor, The Lord WINSTON (1940-)
THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Robert Winston, doctor, scientist and television presenter, was surprised by Michael Aspel while filming for his new television series, The Human Body, at the London Aquarium.
Robert, who was born in Southgate, London, studied at St Paul's School and the London Hospital Medical College, graduating in 1964 with a degree in medicine and surgery. He became an expert in human fertility and joined Hammersmith Hospital as a registrar in 1970, where he founded the hospital's IVF unit.
As head of the fertility unit at Hammersmith for nearly 20 years, he helped more than 1000 women become mothers and was dubbed 'the man who makes babies', while his pioneering medical research has helped the fight against hereditary diseases. As a broadcaster, he presented the BBC documentary series Making Babies and five series of Your Life in Their Hands. He was created a life peer in 1995.
"Good god! Well, I'm supposed to be somewhere else at 6 o'clock!"
programme details...
- Edition No: 993
- Subject No: 968
- Broadcast date: Mon 12 Jan 1998
- Broadcast time: 7.00-7.30pm
- Recorded: Thu 4 Dec 1997
- Venue: unknown
- Series: 38
- Edition: 20
- Code name: Baby
on the guest list...
- Tanya - daughter
- Joel - son
- Ben - son
- Lira - wife
- Gavin Campbell
- Amanda Hornett
- Beth Hornett
- Ruth - mother
- Willow - sister
- Anthony - brother
- Tina - sister-in-law
- Steven Massel
- Alan Weyman
- Stella Nichols
- Mark Jackson
- Andre Carlin
- Roddy Morton
- John Sargent
- Raul Margara
- Suzanne Burden
- Ray Noble
- Tania Noble
- Harry Noble
- Georgie Noble
- Robert Acland
- Gene Tritt
- IVF families Filmed tributes:
- David Platt
- Ian Wright
- David Seaman
- Bob Wilson
production team...
- Researcher: Ruth Malone
- Writer: Ian Brown
- Directors: John Gorman, Steve Docherty
- Associate Producer: Liz Rawlings
- Executive Producer: John Longley
- Series Producer: Jack Crawshaw
- Producer: Sue Green
- names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life
Screenshots of Robert Winston This Is Your Life
Series 38 subjects
Jeremy Guscott | Magnus Magnusson | Maureen Rees | Russ Abbot | Sally Gunnell | Graham Cole | James HatfieldCarol Vorderman | Trevor Baylis | Bryan Mosley | Murray Walker | Cheryl Baker | Errol Brown | Peter Snow
Nadim Sawalha | Clive Hornby | Trevor Bannister | Mary Ward | Brian Murphy | Robert Winston
Duncan Goodhew | Julia Watson | Anne Robinson | Bill Giles | Tim Healy | Raymond Baxter