"This Is Your Life (UK TV series) This is Your Life is a British biographical television documentary, based on the 1952 American show of the same title. It was hosted by Eamonn Andrews from 1955 until 1964, and then from 1969 until his death in 1987 aged 64. Michael Aspel then took up the role of host until the show ended in 2003. It returned in 2007 as a one-off special presented by Trevor McDonald, which to date was its most recent airing. In the show the host surprises a special guest, before taking them through their life with the"
"This Is Your Life This Is Your Life was an American reality documentary series broadcast on NBC radio from 1948 to 1952, and on NBC television from 1952 to 1961. It was originally hosted by its creator and producer Ralph Edwards. In the program, the host would surprise guests and then take them through a retrospective of their lives in front of an audience, including appearances by colleagues, friends, and family. Edwards revived the show in 1971–1972, and Joseph Campanella hosted a version in 1983. Edwards returned for some specials in the late 1980s, before his death in 2005. The"
"This Is Your Life (Australian TV series) This Is Your Life is an Australian television documentary and reality show, based on the American show of the same name, in which the host surprises guests with a show documenting their lives, with audience participation from their friends and family. The original series began broadcasting in Australia in 1975 on the Seven Network, hosted by Mike Willesee. Subsequent seasons were compered by Digby Wolfe (1976) and Roger Climpson (1977–1980). In 1995 the Nine Network relaunched the program with a 13-year successful run and hosted by Journalist Mike Munro. In November 2010, it"
"This Is Your Life (New Zealand TV series) This Is Your Life is a New Zealand television documentary show based on the American show of the same name, in which the host surprises guests with a show documenting their lives, with audience participation from their friends and family. Thirty-nine New Zealanders have been honoured in the New Zealand version of the show, which has been broadcast on and off since 1984 on Television New Zealand's TVOne. It was originally hosted by Bob Parker (1984-1996), but more recent episodes have been presented by Paul Holmes (1996-2000) and Paul Henry (2007-2008). Most"
"was announced that the show would return on 28 February 2011 and be hosted by Eddie McGuire, however it was not as successful and after just four episodes the show did not return. This Is Your Life (Australian TV series) This Is Your Life is an Australian television documentary and reality show, based on the American show of the same name, in which the host surprises guests with a show documenting their lives, with audience participation from their friends and family. The original series began broadcasting in Australia in 1975 on the Seven Network, hosted by Mike Willesee. Subsequent seasons"
"last edition of ""This Is Your Life"" six days previously on 30 October 1987. After his death, the show, and two others that had yet to be broadcast, were postponed until, with his widow's permission, they were broadcast in January 1988. A funeral service was held for Andrews at St Anne's Church in Portmarnock where he had his home, and his body was buried in Balgriffin Cemetery to the north of Dublin. A memorial mass was held for him in Westminster Cathedral. Andrews married Gráinne in 1951. They raised three adopted children. For his work in British broadcasting Andrews was"
"Radio Lives Radio Lives was a long running BBC Radio 4 biographical series consisting of portraits of great radio figures. Running over seven series from 1990-96, each episode featured a personality who was influential either on the air or behind the scenes, and was presented by someone with a keen interest in their subject. The programmes demonstrated a striking range of subjects as varied as Edward R. Murrow (the voice of Britain for an American radio audience at the height of the London blitz) to Kenneth Williams, and William Hardcastle (inaugural presenter of The World at One) to Nancy Spain"
"That's Life! That's Life! was a magazine-style television series on BBC1 between 26 May 1973 and 19 June 1994, presented by Esther Rantzen throughout the entire run, with various changes of co-presenters. The show was notable for presenting hard-hitting investigations alongside satire and occasional light entertainment. The show was generally recorded about an hour prior to transmission, which was originally on Saturday nights and then on Sunday nights. In its latter days, in an attempt to win back falling ratings, it was moved back to Saturday nights. In October 2018, it was announced that ""a similar version"" of the show"
"show has also featured iconic New Zealanders such as mountaineer and explorer Sir Edmund Hillary and Māori activist Dame Whina Cooper. The show returned after two years on 10 October 2010. Paul Henry was scheduled to appear as the host but due to controversy surrounding occurrences on the TV show Breakfast, Henry was replaced with former host Paul Holmes. The book was presented to Sir Peter Leitch. Most recently former All Black Zinzan Brooke was honoured on 17 October 2011. This Is Your Life (New Zealand TV series) This Is Your Life is a New Zealand television documentary show based"
"main presenter. ""That's Life!"" ran on BBC1 for 21 years from 1973 to 1994, becoming one of the most popular shows on British television, reaching audiences of more than 18 million. During that time, it expanded the traditional role of the consumer programme from simply exposing faulty washing machines and dodgy salesmen, to investigating life-and-death issues, such as a campaign for more organ donors, which featured Ben Hardwick, a two-year-old dying of liver disease whose only hope was a transplant, and the investigation of a boarding school, the headmaster of which was a paedophile who employed several paedophile teachers. To"
"First Life (TV series) First Life is a 2010 British nature documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, also known by the expanded titles David Attenborough's First Life (UK) and First Life with David Attenborough (USA). It was first broadcast in the USA as a two-hour special on the Discovery Channel on 24 October 2010. In the United Kingdom it was broadcast as a two-part series on BBC Two on 5 November 2010. ""First Life"" sees Attenborough tackle the subject of the origin of life on Earth. He investigates the evidence from the earliest fossils, which suggest that complex"
"of the soldier he gave on ""Truth or Consequences"" that he developed ""This Is Your Life"" as a new radio show. In the show, Edwards would surprise each guest by narrating a biography of the subject. The show ""alternated in presenting the life stories of entertainment personalities and 'ordinary' people who had contributed in some way to their communities."" The host, consulting his ""red book"", would narrate while presenting the subject with family members, friends, and others who had affected his or her life. By the 1950s, the show was aired live before a theater audience. The guests were surprised"
"use the show to explain their views. The programme was first broadcast on 4 November 1984. It replaced ""The Derek Davis Show"". It had initially been postponed and endured a difficult time during its early years. The first major story to be covered by the programme was a few weeks after it began when an air crash in Eastbourne killed a number of journalists. The first presenters of the programme were David Hanly and David Davin-Power. Davin-Power was also the first editor. Cathal Mac Coille succeeded David Hanly as the programme's signature voice, presenting it from 1986 to 1990 and"
"This Life (1996 TV series) This Life is a BBC television drama that was produced by World Productions and screened on BBC Two. Two series were broadcast in 1996 and 1997 and a reunion special in 2007. The series centres on the life of five twentysomething law graduates embarking upon their careers while sharing a house in south London. Unusually for a show about lawyers, there are no courtroom scenes in either the first or second series, and only one brief scene in the TV movie sequel. Broadcast during the height of ""Cool Britannia"", the series set in London is"
"Life Story (TV series) Life Story is a British natural-history television series with Mike Gunton, Rupert Barrington and Tom Hugh-Jones from the BBC Natural History Unit on the production team. The six-part series reveals the challenges faced by individual animals at different stages of their lives and was first broadcast on BBC One in 2014. The series is introduced and narrated by David Attenborough. The series was announced by the BBC on 8 July 2011 with the working title ""Survival"", later changed to ""Life Story"". It is a BBC Television, Discovery Channel and France Télévisions co-production and is the first"
"Life Story (TV series) Life Story is a British natural-history television series with Mike Gunton, Rupert Barrington and Tom Hugh-Jones from the BBC Natural History Unit on the production team. The six-part series reveals the challenges faced by individual animals at different stages of their lives and was first broadcast on BBC One in 2014. The series is introduced and narrated by David Attenborough. The series was announced by the BBC on 8 July 2011 with the working title ""Survival"", later changed to ""Life Story"". It is a BBC Television, Discovery Channel and France Télévisions co-production and is the first"
"which was chaired by Barry Cryer. Arthur Askey was another regular on the show. He married showgirl Dorothy (née Sibil) and the couple had two sons: Robin Ray, a well-known television personality in the 1960s and 1970s, who initiated ""Call My Bluff"" and specialist classical music shows, and Andrew Ray, a child star of the 1950s who had a long career on stage, film and television. He was the subject of ""This Is Your Life"" on two occasions, in October 1955 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the BBC Television Theatre, and in February 1975, when Andrews surprised"
"That's Britain! That's Britain! is a 2011 British television series which takes a light-hearted look at aspects of modern life which frustrate and infuriate people. Presented by Nick Knowles and Julia Bradbury the series first aired on BBC One at 8pm from 23 November to 14 December 2011. The first series comprises four episodes. Topics covered in the show centre on every day issues, such as hospital parking charges, roadworks and overcrowded trains, with subjects being investigated by celebrity guests. For example, in the first episode the television presenter Grainne Seoige took a look at junk mail and comedian Ade"
"Desmond Wilcox Desmond John Wilcox (21 May 1931 – 6 September 2000) was a British documentary maker at the BBC and ITV. He was producer of ""This Week"", ""Man Alive"", and ""That's Life!"". Wilcox was born in 1931 in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, to John William Wilcox and Alice M. Whittle. He attended Cheltenham Grammar School and Christ's College, Finchley. He was then a training apprentice with the Outward Bound Sea School and left home to work as a deckhand in the merchant marine. In 1949 he began a career in journalism as a reporter on a weekly newspaper."
"""This Morning"". Beer and her husband Paul Pascoe live in London, and have twin girls, Phoebe and Dora, born in 2003. Beer is a patron of CLIC Sargent. Alice Beer Alice Beer (born 1 May 1965) is an English television presenter. She is best known for appearing on the British consumer investigative journalism programme Watchdog on BBC One between 1993 and 1999. A trained journalist, Beer's first job in 1987 was as a secretary on the BBC programme ""That's Life!"". She subsequently progressed to being a researcher, then a producer, on ""Kilroy"" and ""Gloria Live"". From 1992 until 1999 she"
"in 3.5 million homes, becoming a new ""Biography"" record. Journalist Harry Smith (previously with CBS's This Morning) joined ""Biography"" as the primary host, though Peter Graves and Jack Perkins continued to appear on the show. By the end of the century, ""Biography"" had profiled over 800 people, and on October 1, 2000, A&E Networks expanded its British partnership with Sky UK with the launch of a UK market Biography Channel. ""Biography""s ratings declined 15% from 2000 to 2001, and another 17% from 2001 to 2002, before increasing 6% in 2003. Despite the decrease in ratings, by 2002, ""Biography"" won its"
"(1917–1922)<br> 3. Azure Main (1922–1936)<br> 4. The Stormy Winds (1936–1941)<br> 5. United We Conquer (1941–1943)<br> 6. The Imperial Enemy<br> 7. The March to Victory<br> 8. The Meaning of Victory (1945–1947)<br> 9. The Last Viceroy<br> 10. Fresh Fields (1947–1955)<br> 11. Full Circle (1955–1965)<br> 12. A Man of This Century (1900–1968) On 27 April 1977, shortly before his 77th birthday, Mountbatten became the first member of the Royal Family to appear on the TV guest show ""This Is Your Life"". Mountbatten usually holidayed at his summer home, Classiebawn Castle, in Mullaghmore, a small seaside village in County Sligo, Ireland. The village was"
"second child in a family of five. Her brother Jim is a member of the Fianna Fáil leadership team and a barrister. Her first television appearance was an advertisement for Avonmore Milk in the 1980s. Soon after qualifying as a solicitor in 1983, she moved to London with then husband, Tom McGurk, and applied for a researcher's job in Thames Television. She secured a position on ""This Is Your Life"", then presented by Eamonn Andrews. She then moved onto researching current affairs programmes for Thames and in 1987, she left to train as a BBC producer in the BBC Television"
"winner, Motivator. Cowell was chosen as the first subject of the re-launched ""This Is Your Life"" in an episode broadcast on 2 June 2007. He was presented with the Red Book by Sir Trevor McDonald while presenting ""American Idol"". On 1 July 2007, Cowell appeared as a speaker at the Concert for Diana (alongside Randy Jackson and Ryan Seacrest) held at Wembley Stadium, London, to celebrate the life of Princess Diana almost 10 years after her death. Proceeds from the concert went to Diana's charities as well as to charities of which her sons Princes William and Harry are patrons."
"Raymond Baxter Raymond Frederic Baxter OBE (25 January 1922 – 15 September 2006) was an English television presenter and writer. He is best known for being the first presenter of the BBC Television science programme ""Tomorrow's World"", continuing for 12 years, from 1965 to 1977. He also provided radio commentary at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, the funerals of King George VI, Winston Churchill and Lord Mountbatten of Burma, and the first flight of Concorde. Baxter was born in Ilford in Essex. His father was a science teacher. He was educated at Ilford County High School, a grammar school"
"could produce their own versions. The first show was presented by Virginia Stride and Gordon Rollings. Other presenters throughout the 24-year run included Only four of these presenters presented the programme during all three decades of its existence, namely Brian Cant (1964–85), Carol Chell (1966–88), Johnny Ball (1967–84 & 1986–87) and Chloe Ashcroft (1969–88). Chell was both the longest-serving presenter and the one who made the most appearances on the programme (763 in total). Other presenters who were on the programme for 10 or more years included Julie Stevens, Derek Griffiths, Fred Harris, Don Spencer, Sarah Long, Floella Benjamin, Stuart"
"The Living World The Living World is a long-running natural history radio programme, made by the BBC and broadcast on its Radio 4. The series was created at the BBC Natural History Unit by Dilys Breese and Derek Jones, initially as a 52-week series, in 1968. It chiefly covers topics related to the flora and fauna of the British Isles, with occasional forays further afield, such as a 1997 episode on the wildlife of the Rock of Gibraltar. For many years until 2009 the lead presenter was Lionel Kelleway. Current presenters are Trai Anfield and Chris Sperring. Other presenters include"
"of Oak Leaves erect Vert a Horse rampant Or. Mantled Azure doubled Or. Desmond Wilcox Desmond John Wilcox (21 May 1931 – 6 September 2000) was a British documentary maker at the BBC and ITV. He was producer of ""This Week"", ""Man Alive"", and ""That's Life!"". Wilcox was born in 1931 in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, to John William Wilcox and Alice M. Whittle. He attended Cheltenham Grammar School and Christ's College, Finchley. He was then a training apprentice with the Outward Bound Sea School and left home to work as a deckhand in the merchant marine. In 1949"
"post-graduate degree from Glasgow University in 1960, he was posted to Pakistan. O'Leary was assigned as a missionary in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. In 1962, while attending to a sick woman in an empty mud hut, O'Leary realized the need for a hospice care facility. In 1964, he opened the first hospice in Rawalpindi. After receiving advice from Mother Teresa, O'Leary obtained loans and donations to establish more facilities. O'Leary established several hospices in Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras and Guatemala. He also founded three facilities in England. In 1973, O'Leary was the subject of the British television program ""This Is Your Life"""
"This Is Life with Lisa Ling This Is Life with Lisa Ling is a CNN original documentary television series produced by Brooklyn-based production company Part2 Pictures and American journalist Lisa Ling, who is also the show’s host. The program was announced on April 14, 2014, and its first season premiered September 28, 2014. Lisa Ling is a writer, journalist, and former co-host of ABC’s ""The View"" (1999–2002). She has been a special correspondent for CNN and the Oprah Winfrey Network, from which she brought producer Amy Bucher of Part2 Pictures to work on ""This Is Life"". The two have worked"
"on a number of TV shows, including ""This Is Your Life"" (1996, BBC), ""Travels With My Camera"" (1996, Channel 4 TV) and ""Going Home"" (2002, ITV TV), and presented the 1997 Channel 4 series ""Classic Trains"". He was also in demand as a voice-over artist for television documentaries, such as BBC One's ""A Life of Grime"". At the age of 62 he was diagnosed with diabetes, following many years of fatigue. In April 2003, the publishers Transworld successfully wooed Peel with a package worth £1.5 million for his autobiography, having placed an advert in a national newspaper aimed only at"
"wrote an account of the race's history and his own slow crossing in ""Last Man Across The Atlantic"". He was second last. Paul Heiney Paul Heiney (born Paul Wisniewski 20 April 1949) has been a radio broadcaster or television reporter in the United Kingdom for over forty years, but remains best-known as a former presenter of ""That's Life!"" He was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, the son of Norbert Wisniewski and Evelyn Mardlin. He changed his surname to Heiney in 1971. He attended Parson Cross Primary School on Halifax Road, Sheffield, and High Storrs Grammar School for Boys. In 1971-74 he"
"""This Is Your Life"" in 1959 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews in the club at the BBC's Lime Grove Studios, in London's Shepherd's Bush. He married the actress Audrey Hale in 1944 and they had a son and a daughter. He died of a heart attack at his home in Chislehurst, Kent in December 1992 aged 78, and was buried at Tottenham Cemetery. Ted Willis, Baron Willis Edward Henry Willis, Baron Willis (13 January 1914 - 22 December 1992) was a British playwright, novelist and screenwriter who was also politically active in support of the Labour Party. Born"