Victor SILVESTER (1900-1978)

Victor Silvester This Is Your Life

programme details...

  • Edition No: 45
  • Subject No: 45
  • Broadcast live: Mon 9 Dec 1957
  • Broadcast time: 7.30-8.00pm
  • Venue: BBC Television Theatre
  • Series: 3
  • Edition: 11

on the guest list...

  • ACM Sir Victor Goddard
  • Diana Churchill
  • Mrs J H Churchill
  • Gwen - sister
  • Jack Massie
  • Laurence Wade-Brown
  • Phyllis Walker-Carter
  • Dorothy - wife
  • George Metcalfe
  • Oscar Phillips
  • Lenore Freeman
  • Ben Edwards
  • Oscar Grasso
  • Victor - son
  • The Victor Silvester Ballroom Orchestra
  • Filmed tribute:
  • Lionel Sessions
  • Recorded tribute:
  • Gerry Moore

production team...

  • Researcher: George Bruce
  • Writer: Peter Moore
  • Director: unknown
  • Producer: T Leslie Jackson
related pages...

A Musical Life

blowing a trumpet for the musicians


Interviews

Tara Silvester, granddaughter of Victor Silvester, recalls her grandfather and her appearance on the BBC television programme The Repair Shop in an exclusive interview recorded in March 2023

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Photographs of Victor Silvester This Is Your Life - and a photograph of Victor Silvester's big red book

Series 3 subjects

Albert Whelan | Colin Hodgkinson | Vera Lynn | Arthur Christiansen | John Logie Baird | Richard Carr-Gomm | Jack Train
Edith Powell | Anne Brusselmans | Norman Wisdom | Victor Silvester | Jack Petersen | Lucy Jane Dobson
David Bell | Matt Busby | Minnie Barnard | Gordon Steele | Louie Ramsay | Tubby Clayton | Daniel Angel
Anna Neagle | 'Dapper' Channon | Frederick Stone | Paul Field | Noel Purcell | Barbara Cartland
Harry Secombe | Archie Rowe | Humphrey Lyttelton | Francis Cammaerts | A E Matthews