This Is Your Life: Teddy Winn

Teddy WINN

THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Teddy Winn, retired RSPCA inspector, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the BBC Television Theatre, having been led to believe he was there to see a documentary film being made.

Teddy, who grew up in Beckenham, developed an early love of animals and began his working life on farms before becoming an inspector for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in 1922, first in Woolwich, then in Croydon, Bromley, and finally Eastbourne.

For 33 years until his retirement in 1955, Teddy dealt with over 60,000 cases, earning himself the Margaret Wheatley Cross, the equivalent of the Animal's Victoria Cross, the RSPCA Silver Medal and the National Canine Defence League Medal.

programme details...

Edition No: 249
Subject No: 249
Broadcast date: Thu 12 Mar 1964
Broadcast time: 8.50-9.15pm
Recorded: Mon 17 Jan 1964
Venue: BBC Television Theatre
Series: 9
Edition: 23

on the guest list...

Henry Poole
Sidney Crease
Irene - wife
Freddie Brett
Ethel Hall
Elinor Gartley
John Bull
Rhoda Pope
Eve Rogers
Christopher Robin - dog
Jack Lovatt - cousin
Amy Bolton - cousin
unnamed puppy
Albert Wilkinson

production team...

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

related page...

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Photographs of Teddy Winn This Is Your Life

Series 9 subjects