Big Red Book

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THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Daniel Angel, film producer, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews on the stage of the BBC Television Theatre, having been brought there by Derek Bond and Alan Sleath from the BBC television series Picture Parade and led to believe that the subject was to be the actor Kenneth More.

Daniel, who was born and educated in London, entered the family firm of theatrical costumiers after leaving school. While serving as a Major with the Royal Artillery in India and Burma during the Second World War, he contracted polio and was told he would never walk again.

Invalided home, he spent time at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, where he was rehabilitated and learnt to walk with crutches. He began producing short documentary films in 1946 and made his first feature, Murder at the Windmill, in 1949. He went on to produce several notable British films of the early 1950s, including The Sea Shall Not Have Them and the BAFTA award-winning Reach for the Sky.

programme details...

• Edition No: 54
• Subject No: 54
• Broadcast live: Mon 10 Feb 1958
• Broadcast time: 8.15-8.45pm
• Venue: BBC Television Theatre
• Series: 3
• Edition: 20

on the guest list...

• Peggy Van Praagh
• Dr Sydney Curwen
• Douglas Chatburn
• Maj Jack Elliott
• Col Arthur Hughes
• Merle Medland
• Robert Oliver
• Hugh Perceval
• Garry Marsh
• Betty - wife
• Tony Wright
• Muriel Pavlow
• Anthony Steele
• Kenneth More
Filmed tribute:
• Bud Flanagan

production team...

• Researcher: George Bruce
• Writer: Nigel Ward
• Director: unknown
• Producer: T Leslie Jackson

• names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life

Reel Life

cinematic celebrations

The Big Red Book

the programme's icon

Kenneth More

Interviews

Susan Angel, daughter of Daniel Angel, recalls this edition of This Is Your Life in an exclusive interview recorded in March 2012

Photographs of Daniel Angel This Is Your Life - and a photograph of Daniel Angel's big red book