The actress Betty Driver was surprised by Eamonn Andrews in January 1976 for the television programme This Is Your Life.

In an exclusive interview for the BigRedBook website recorded in March 2016 the writer and social historian Stephen Bourne discusses the programme.

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📺 This Is Your Life was one of the most popular programmes on British television, spanning almost 50 years of broadcasting, with over eleven hundred editions produced between 1955 and 2003.

📕 Part biography, part celebration, the programme’s premise was simple – an unexpected surprise for an unsuspecting subject, as the host opened the Big Red Book to reveal a life story told through a reunion of family and friends.

The Big Red Book YouTube channel is a growing online archive of exclusive interviews with former subjects of This Is Your Life, as well as friends and relatives who took part in the show.

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