Big Red Book
This Is Your Life was a television institution.
One of the most popular programmes on British television, covering five decades of broadcasting and producing over eleven hundred editions.
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. Part biography and part celebration, each edition aimed to entertain in a warm hearted and positive way.
At the peak of its popularity, in the 1970s and 80s, audiences of up to, and sometimes more than, 20 million viewers regularly tuned in every Wednesday at 7pm in anticipation of whose name would be embossed on that week's Big Red Book...
This YouTube channel is an expanding collection of EXCLUSIVE interviews with former subjects of This Is Your Life, as well as friends and relatives who took part in the show - creating a growing digital archive of first hand behind-the-scenes stories and recollections.
Richard Attenborough recalls This Is Your Life
Paul Nicholas recalls This Is Your Life
Noddy Holder recalls This Is Your Life
Rosemary Conley recalls This Is Your Life
Bonnie Langford recalls This Is Your Life
Richard Stilgoe recalls This Is Your Life
Trevor Baylis recalls This Is Your Life
Miriam Moses This Is Your Life
Lionel Jeffries This Is Your Life
Gerald Harper recalls This Is Your Life
Larry Grayson recalls This Is Your Life
Ian Woosnam recalls This Is Your Life
Clive Mantle recalls This Is Your Life
Freddy Bloom This Is Your Life
Victor Silvester This Is Your Life - an interview with Tara Silvester
Peter Butterworth and Janet Brown This Is Your Life
Gyles Brandreth recalls This Is Your Life
Maurice Leonard recalls working with Eamonn Andrews on This Is Your Life
Maurice Leonard recalls This Is Your Life
Maurice Leonard recalls researching the life of Muhammad Ali for This Is Your Life
Maurice Leonard recalls meeting Ginger Rogers while working on This Is Your Life
David Butler recalls This Is Your Life
Des O'Connor recalls This Is Your Life
Brian Hession recalls This Is Your Life
Billy Smart This Is Your Life
Sue Ryder recalls This Is Your Life
Sammy McCarthy This Is Your Life
Maud Fairman recalls This Is Your Life
John Barbirolli recalls This Is Your Life
Harry S Pepper recalls This Is Your Life