Stanley BISHOP MBE
THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Stanley Bishop, Fleet Street crime reporter, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews outside the BBC Television Theatre.
The production team had created a 'mock' robbery at the BBC to entice the reporter to the 'scene of the crime'.
Stanley worked for 5 national newspapers over a 56 year career, and was regarded as Britain's No 1 crime reporter.
“How much have they got?”
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programme details...
- Edition No: 114
- Subject No: 114
- Broadcast live: Mon 14 Dec 1959
- Broadcast time: 7.30-8.05pm
- Venue: BBC Television Theatre
- Series: 5
- Edition: 16
on the guest list...
- Lord Morrison of Lambeth
- Harold Godin
- Jack Capstick
- Col Cuthbert Buckle
- Sir Ronald Howe
- Jack Frost
- Bill Tovey
- Hon Maynard Greville
- Freddy Gillman
- Rex North Filmed tributes:
- Norman Cursley
- Harry Harper
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production team...
- Researcher: Ken Smith
- Writer: Ken Smith
- Producer: T Leslie Jackson
Series 5 subjects: Evelyn Laye > Donald Caskie > Eva Turner > Billy Butlin > Jim Slater > Edmund Arbuthnott > Louis Langford > O P Jones > Richard Hearne > Francoise Rigby > John Barclay > Thomas Drake > William Merrilees > John Lord > Russ Conway > Stanley Bishop > Leonard Stanmore > Arthur Askey > Robert Oldfield > Alicia Markova > Frederic Morena > Hilda Rowcliffe > Thomas Salmon > Harry Welchman > Harry Webb > Nat Gonella > David Barclay > Richard Todd > Thomas Bodkin > Gracie Fields > Michael Ansell