This Is Your Life: Ted Moult

Ted MOULT (1926-1986)

THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Ted Moult, farmer and radio and television personality, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the BBC Television Theatre, having been led to believe he was there to present a non-existent programme, Country Quiz.

Ted, who was born in Derby, became a farming apprentice after leaving school and had established his first dairy farm in Sinfin, on the outskirts of Derby, by the age of 22. He later became a farmer at Scaddows Farm in Ticknall, Derbyshire.

He first came to public attention in the 1950s on BBC Radio's general knowledge quiz, Brain of Britain. His later appearances on discussion programmes such as Any Questions and panel games such as Ask Me Another made him a household name by the mid-1960s.

programme details...

Edition No: 247
Subject No: 247
Broadcast date: Thu 27 Feb 1964
Broadcast time: 8.50-9.15pm
Recorded: Mon 27 Jan 1964 8.00pm
Venue: BBC Television Theatre
Series: 9
Edition: 21

on the guest list...

Dorothy Baker
Reginald - father
Elsie - mother
Will Naylor
Marie - wife
Olive Stephens
Margaret Whitehead
Jill Challoner
Jackie Mee
Amelia - daughter
Patrick - son
Thomas - son
Anna Marie - daughter
William - son
Stuart Nichols

production team...

Researcher: unknown
Writer: Peter Moore
Director: Mark Patterson
Producer: Vere Lorrimer
Executive Producer: T Leslie Jackson

names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life

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Ted Moult recalls his experience of This Is Your Life in his autobiography, Down To Earth...

Being an ordinary kind of bloke, there was one television appearance which didn't appeal to me much, though I suppose I could have been flattered. That was This Is Your Life, and Ted Moult was the subject.

I had travelled to London, ostensibly to do a pilot show for yet another quiz permutation, following which I was entertained at some considerable length in a restaurant, just opposite the television theatre where the final rehearsal was to take place.

Feeling well contented with life following my wining and dining, I just hadn't the guts, when Eamonn Andrews filled my sights, to suggest he took his book elsewhere. So I walked on the stage to be met by a Jersey cow, and also there were big bales of hay. "How much is all this worth per ton?" asked Eamonn. "Oh, I don't know," said I, "About £12 a ton", and lo and behold out came five kids, followed by my wife, who had been transported in strict secrecy all the way from home, for the occasion.

Series 9 subjects