Big Red Book
Celebrating television's This Is Your Life
Reverend Paul BURROUGH MBE (1916-2003)
THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Paul Burrough, Anglican clergyman, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews outside the BBC's Gosta Green Studios in Birmingham, having been led to believe he was being filmed for a different programme.
Paul, who grew up in Oxford and studied at St Edmund's Hall, was chosen to row for Oxford University in the 1937 and 1938 Boat Race, despite being almost disabled as a child falling off a bicycle. Following a spell in Argentina, he served in Malaya with the Royal Signals during the Second World War. In 1942, he was caught by the Japanese and spent time as a prisoner of war.
After the war, he studied at a theological college and shortly after being ordained in 1951, was sent to Korea as a missionary, where he established a shelter for the refugee children who had lost their parents in the Korean War. After eight years there, he settled in Birmingham, where he became known as the Flying Parson for riding a motorbike around his parish.
programme details...
- Edition No: 251
- Subject No: 251
- Broadcast date: Thu 26 Mar 1964
- Broadcast time: 8.50-9.15pm
- Recorded: Mon 25 Nov 1963 8.00pm
- Venue: Gosta Green Studios, Birmingham
- Series: 9
- Edition: 25
on the guest list...
- Canon Burrough - father
- Mrs Burrough - mother
- Violet Brooks
- John Snagge
- Brian Hodgson
- Ronald Webster
- Jock Drummond
- Eric Beaver
- Harry Bristow
- Albert Feltham
- Jock Moss
- Mr Bygrave
- Bess - wife
- Anna Kimi
- unnamed children from his diocese Filmed tributes:
- The Most Rev Archbishop Lord Fisher
- The Right Rev Dr J S Wilson
related appearance...
- The Night of 1000 Lives - Jan 2000
production team...
- Researcher: unknown
- Writer: unknown
- Director: Michael Goodwin
- Producer: Vere Lorrimer
- Executive Producer: T Leslie Jackson
celebrating the 'men of God'
a celebration of a thousand editions
Photographs of Paul Burrough This Is Your Life
Series 9 subjects
Stratford Johns | Alice Stern | Robert Boothby | Bessie Love | Joan Stanton | Harry Worth | John Dodd | Ralph ReaderAlbert Guerisse | Margaret Lockwood | Franklin Day | Frederick Spencer Chapman | Thora Hird | Evelyn Bark
Madge Watson and Elsie Wood | Petula Clark | Derek McCulloch | Bert Matthews | Ted Moult | Dot Palmer | Teddy Winn
Barbara Mullen | Paul Burrough | Sydney Scroggie | Ninette de Valois | Dominique Pire | Olivia de Havilland | Mary Hawkins