Big Red Book
Celebrating television's This Is Your Life
Dr Stephanie COOK MBE (1972-)
THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Stephanie Cook, pentathlete and doctor, was surprised by Michael Aspel during a photographic fashion shoot at the Lichfield Studios in London.
Stephanie, who was born in Irvine, Ayrshire, studied medicine at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where she first began rowing, and Lincoln College, Oxford, where she took up modern pentathlon. After qualifying as a doctor in 1997, she combined pentathlon training and competing with the long hours of a junior doctor, winning a silver medal in the team event at the 1998 World Championships.
She put her medical career on hold to compete at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, where she became the first woman to win the Olympic title in the modern pentathlon. She went on to win individual European and World titles the following year before retiring from competing and returning to her career as a doctor - but not before she travelled on behalf of the medical charity Merlin to treat the victims of the Gujarat earthquake in India.
"This is a joke, right? I don't believe this!"
programme details...
- Edition No: 1095
- Subject No: 1071
- Broadcast date: Thu 28 Feb 2002
- Broadcast time: 8.30-9.00pm
- Recorded: Mon 22 Oct 2001
- Venue: Teddington Studios
- Series: 42
- Edition: 16
- Code name: Meal
on the guest list...
- Kate Allenby
- Sian Lewis
- George Harland
- Val - mother
- Paul - father
- Mavis - grandmother
- Nellie - great aunt
- Dan Carroll - partner
- Richard Faulds
- Kieran West
- Fred Scarlett
- Matthew Pinsent
- Vanessa - sister
- Tony Pease
- Chris Considine
- Sir Roy Calne
- Catherine Heatley
- Mark Greenaway-Robbins
- Susie Black
- Debbie Box
- Neil McDonald
- Edward Jule
- Dr Clare Sander
- Sally Baxter
- Linda Adland
- Sarah McDoule
- Mark Whiteley
- Isvan Nemit
- Katie Brown
- Jim Fox
- Nigel Impey
- Sheila Hands
- Emily deRiel Filmed tributes:
- Audley Harrison
- Mandy Armstrong
- pupils of St Peter's School, Farnham
related appearance...
- Matthew Pinsent - Nov 2000
production team...
- Researcher: Alex Renton
- Writer: Joe Steeples
- Director: Chris Fox
- Associate Producer: Helen Gordon-Smith
- Executive Producer: John Longley
- Series Producer: Jack Crawshaw
- Producer: Sue Green
- names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life
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Series 42 subjects
Michael Winner | Shaun Williamson | Paddy Ashdown | Tim Smit | Babs Powell | Saeed Jaffrey | Paul Young | Julian ClaryJonah Lomu | Rosemary Conley | Ian Woosnam | Bill Oddie | Fern Britton | Nick Ross | Ray and Trevor Powles
Stephanie Cook | Ian Lavender | Jenny Seagrove | Anita Dobson | Henry Sandon | Linda Barker | Brigit Forsyth
Christina Noble | Claire Sweeney | Lloyd Scott | Julian Fellowes