This Is Your Life: Joan Stanton

Joan STANTON (1921-?)

THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Joan Stanton, housewife and mother, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews in the audience at the BBC's studios in Gosta Green, Birmingham, having been led to believe she was there to see the programme, The Heart of the Midlands.

Joan, who was born in Wolverhampton, started her working life as a cleaner after leaving school. Despite having suffered from an eye condition from the age of eleven, which she kept hidden, she was a keen dancer and learnt to play the piano.

While working in a fabric factory, she lost her sight completely in her late teens. In 1962, married with six children, she underwent an operation which successfully restored her sight after 24 years of blindness.

programme details...

Edition No: 231
Subject No: 232
Broadcast date: Thu 31 Oct 1963
Broadcast time: 8.35-9.00pm
Recorded: Tues 8 Oct 1963 8.00pm
Venue: Gosta Green Studios, Birmingham
Series: 9
Edition: 5

on the guest list...

David Bewley
Alice Matthews - mother
Nancy Marrs
Gwen - sister
Ray - husband
Lorna Pring
Sister Burton
Dr Samwer Biswas
Bertha Braithwaite
Roger - son
Lesley - daughter
Joan - daughter
Maria – daughter
Vincent – son
Stephen – son

production team...

Researcher: unknown
Writer: unknown
Director: Michael Goodwin
Producer: Vere Lorrimer
Executive Producer: T Leslie Jackson

related page...

Jack of all Trades

from domestic cleaner to teacher

Photographs of Joan Stanton This Is Your Life

Series 9 subjects