Tessa SANDERSON MBE (1956-)

Tessa Sanderson This Is Your Life

programme details...

  • Edition No: 844
  • Subject No: 834
  • Broadcast date: Wed 18 Nov 1992
  • Broadcast time: 7.00-7.30pm
  • Recorded: Fri 23 Oct 1992
  • Venue: Granada Studios, Manchester
  • Series: 33
  • Edition: 8
  • Code name: Point

on the guest list...

  • Derrick Evans - partner
  • Daley Thompson
  • Leonard - father
  • Murphy - mother
  • Pat - sister
  • Barbara Richards
  • Brian Newman
  • Wilf Paish
  • Sonia Lannaman
  • Michael Samuelson
  • Louise Samuelson
  • Danny - brother
  • Eric - brother
  • Kriss Akabusi
  • Mary Peters
  • Filmed tributes:
  • Emma Samms
  • Anthony Andrews
  • Georgina Andrews
  • Russell Grant
  • Seb Coe
  • Jackie Stewart
  • Ed Moses

production team...

  • Researcher: Elizabeth Ross
  • Writer: Roy Bottomley
  • Directors: Brian Klein, Malcolm Morris
  • Associate Producer: John Graham
  • Producer: Malcolm Morris
  • names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life
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Roy Bottomley This Is Your Life book

Scriptwriter Roy Bottomley recalls this edition of This Is Your Life in his book, This Is Your Life: The Story of Television's Famous Big Red Book...


Olympic pentathlon gold medallist Daley Thompson was Michael Aspel's running mate when we travelled to Manchester to surprise another former gold medallist – and newly crowned javelin world champion.


Tessa Sanderson was giving an aerobics class at Ashton on Mersey High School, for the benefit of the cameras of Granada's Good Morning programme – or so she thought.


Daley Thompson was first to walk into the gym to tell her she had another surprise caller – Michael.


Born in Jamaica, Tessa's parents had gone on ahead to build a home for the family in Wednesfield, Staffordshire. When the time came for Tessa and her sister Pat to join them they had severe worries about the English weather. Pat told us they had heard it was so cold in England that if you touched your ears they would fall off. Their consolation was the discovery of the great British chip.


Olympic team manager Mary Peters, Tessa's own heroine, told us how, despite injury, Tessa had turned the tears of disappointment at the Moscow Olympics into tears of joy and triumph in Los Angeles.


There were a few more tears that night, too.

Series 33 subjects

Barbara Windsor | Dickie Bird | Frazer Hines | Pat Kerr | Juliet Mills | William Tarmey | Ellen Pollock | Tessa Sanderson
Peter Saunders | Anthony Newley | Bert Weedon | Glen Murphy | Les Dawson | John Surtees | Shirley Bassey
Albert and Michel Roux | Anthony Jones | Lynda Bellingham | Frank Bruno | Johnnie Hamp | Honor Blackman | Sister Aquinas
Roddy McDowall | Jimmy White | Peggy Spencer | Jackie Collins | Derek Fowlds | Nat Lofthouse | Ann Miller | George Melly