Dame Vera LYNN DBE (1917-2020)

Vera Lynn This Is Your Life

programme details...

  • Edition No: 505
  • Subject No: second timer
  • Broadcast date: Mon 1 Jan 1979
  • Broadcast time: 7.00-7.30pm
  • Recorded: Wed 20 Dec 1978
  • Venue: New London Theatre
  • Series: 19
  • Edition: 11
  • Code name: Harry

on the guest list...

  • Alyn Ainsworth
  • Harry - husband
  • Virginia - daughter
  • Roger - brother
  • The Young Generation
  • Nigel Lythgoe
  • Doreen Harris
  • Joe Loss
  • Howard Baker
  • Florence Desmond
  • Howard Thomas
  • Henk Van’t Lam
  • Frank Dell
  • Holman Gregory
  • Jimmy Edwards
  • Countess of Westmorland
  • David Jacobs
  • Marcel Stellman
  • Harold Wilson
  • Filmed tributes:
  • Johnny Mathis
  • Louis Mountbatten

production team...

  • Researcher: Tony Lee
  • Writers: Tom Brennand, Roy Bottomley
  • Directors: Royston Mayoh, Terry Yarwood
  • Producer: Jack Crawshaw
  • names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life
related pages...

Vera Lynn

first tribute


A Song For Life

it's the singer not the song


Life Second Time Around

surprised again!


The Night of 1000 Lives

a celebration of a thousand editions


Producing Life

the producers who steered the programme's success


Florence Desmond


Jimmy Edwards


Joe Loss


Louis Mountbatten


Interviews

Vera Lynn recalls her experience of This Is Your Life in an exclusive interview recorded in October 2009

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Photographs and screenshots of Vera Lynn This Is Your Life - and Vera Lynn photographed at her home with her big red book in October 2009

Vera Lynn's autobiography

Virginia Lewis, daughter of Vera Lynn, recalls This Is Your Life in her book, Keep Smiling Through...


In the second edition of Ma's This Is Your Life, broadcast in December 1978, Lord Louis Mountbatten made an appearance. He soon after sent my Mother a letter in which he wrote:


I was very happy to be able to pay my tribute to all you have done, particularly for the Burma boys.


Yours affectionately


Mountbatten of Burma

Series 19 subjects

Alice Goldberger | Michael Parkinson | Mary O'Hara | Barbara Kelly | Terry Scott | Jimmy Shand | Eric Newby | Patricia Neal
David Bellamy | Muhammad Ali | Vera Lynn | Naomi James | Leslie Thomas | James Galway | Elaine Paige | Lord Lovat
Kevin Keegan | Stephane Grappelli | Robert Powell | Shirley Crabtree | Peter Barkworth | Robert Law | Dinah Sheridan
JPR Williams | Joyce Pearce | Ian Ogilvy | Margaret Kelly