Stirling MOSS (1929-)

Sterling Moss
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Life at Full Throttle

Highlighting those sporting subjects from the world of speed

THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Stirling Moss, racing driver, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews outside the BBC Television Theatre.


Stirling, a pioneer in the British Formula One racing scene, was the first British driver to win the British Grand Prix in 1955.

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programme details...

  • Edition No: 96
  • Subject No: 96
  • Broadcast live: Mon 27 Apr 1959
  • Broadcast time: 7.30-8pm
  • Venue: BBC Television Theatre
  • Series: 4
  • Edition: 31

on the guest list...

  • Mrs Peggy Shaw
  • Mr & Mrs Alfred Moss - parents
  • Lance Macklin
  • Tommy Wisdom
  • Ken Gregory
  • Alf Francis
  • Katie - wife
  • Don Muller
    • Filmed tributes:
  • Paul Bates
  • Juan Fangio

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production team...

  • Researchers: Nickola Sterne, Peter Moore
  • Writers: Nickola Sterne, Peter Moore
  • Director: Vere Lorrimer
  • Producer: T Leslie Jackson
names listed in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life
Series 4 subjects: Jo Capka > Jimmy Edwards > Andrew Milbourne > Bella Burge > Tommy Steele > Ronald Shiner > James Edward Wood > Margaret Rowena Jones > John Griffiths > Freddy Bloom > Bransby Williams > Miriam Moses > Elsie Mullock > John Vidler > Florence Desmond > Noel Duckworth > Alfred Daniel Wintle > Ted Heath > Andrew MacDonald > Harriet Cohen > George William Hall > Reginald Blanchford > Kenneth More > Hugh Llewelyn Glyn Hughes > Miriam Jowett > Ted Willis > Alfred Southon > Tiger Sarll > Mary Ward > Roy Gill > Stirling Moss > Ethel Goldsack > Tommy Trinder