A4 This is Your Life, Gold Embossed Memory Album, Scrapbook, Photo, Keepsake, Red Hardback (A4 (210x297mm))

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The British version of This Is Your Life was launched in 1955 by BBC Television. It was initially broadcast monthly, then fortnightly, before becoming a regular weekly fixture in the television schedules by its third series. It ran on BBC Television for nine years before being axed in 1964. Eamonn Andrews presented 480 editions of This Is Your Life for Thames Television between 1969 and 1987 Eucalyptus celebration of life funeral guestbook | book of condolence in loving memory | funeral guest book memorial keepsake | funeral book

When snooker player Stephen Hendry was surprised with the red book in 1990, aged 21, he remarked that he had "hardly had a life". [ citation needed] Ant and Dec presented a one-off episode on The Chris Moyles Show in 2012 celebrating his second-to-last day on BBC Radio 1 with special guests Billie Piper, Roy Walker and Gary Barlow live from the BBC Radio Theatre. Eamonn Andrews, who was born in Dublin on 19 December 1922, was educated at the city's Synge Street Christian Brothers' School, only a short distance from the family home he shared with his parents, three sisters and a brother.Eamonn was painstaking in his approach to the show and worked under immense pressure. Absolute integrity and total secrecy were the show's watchwords. So in November 1969, This Is Your Life was relaunched. The revival was an instant hit for Thames Television, and Eamonn's instincts were proved correct. That first series was extended to 26 editions. Several subjects have been surprised by being asked to read the name on the front of the Big Red Book, including Ronald Shiner in 1958 and Alice Goldberger in 1978

This Is Your Life was created by Ralph Edwards, an American radio and television host. The concept originated on American radio in 1948 and successfully transferred to NBC television in October 1952. Although confident as a radio broadcaster, the idea of appearing on television had not thrilled him. His first venture into the medium saw him losing his tie while clambering into a boxing ring to conduct a live interview.

Hattie Jacques appeared in 1963, with her husband John Le Mesurier who had helped set up the surprise; however, much to her extreme discomfort, she was at the time living separately from Le Mesurier with her lover John Schofield. [ citation needed] This was a departure from the American series in which Edwards expressly forbade the show from ever featuring him as a "victim."

Their school days with pictures of them in their uniform if they had one. Get in touch with old school friends if you can. Ask them to send a memory of your loved one to you - may be some mischief they got up to, something they remember about them at the time - anything which comes to mind about her It happened after I won an All-Ireland Juvenile title. Convinced that all I had to do now was sit and wait as sports editors clamoured for my signature, I toiled over the typewriter and got out a piece on How to Train For a Fight. Straight to the sports editor of the Evening Herald, I sent it, and to my astonishment, he accepted it, published it, gave me a by-line, and sent me a guinea."

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This Is Your Life (2007)". BFI. Archived from the original on 6 October 2019 . Retrieved 6 October 2019.Eamonn had received high praise for his radio work and was an obvious choice to chair the new show. What's My Line? debuted on BBC Television on 16 July 1951 and became an instant hit.