Dame Eva TURNER (1892-1990)

Eva Turner This Is Your Life

programme details...

  • Edition No: 616
  • Subject No: second timer
  • Broadcast date: Wed 9 Feb 1983
  • Broadcast time: 7.00-7.30pm
  • Recorded: Tue 8 Feb 1983
  • Venue: Royalty Theatre
  • Series: 23
  • Edition: 17
  • Code name: Diva

on the guest list...

  • Richard Baker
  • Linda Esther Gray
  • Elizabeth Vaughan
  • Pauline Tinsley
  • Anna Cooper
  • Charles Craig
  • Patricia Routledge
  • students of the Royal College of Music
  • Graham Newell
  • Alicia Markova
  • Kiri Te Kanawa - via satellite
  • Placido Domingo - via satellite
  • Maude Thomson
  • Heath Griffiths
  • Dr Evadne Hinge
  • Dame Hilda Bracket
  • letter from HRH Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
  • Bernard Miles
  • Josephine Miles
  • Dr Dale Fleet
  • Genevieve Fleet
  • Geraint Evans
  • Filmed tributes:
  • staff and children of Werneth Council School, Oldham
  • Licia Albanese
  • Tito Gobbi
  • Joan Sutherland

production team...

  • Researcher: Charmaine Carter
  • Writers: Tom Brennand, Roy Bottomley
  • Directors: Paul Stewart Laing, Terry Yarwood
  • Producer: Malcolm Morris
  • names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life
related pages...

Eva Turner

first tribute


Classical Life

a symphony of subjects


Life Second Time Around

surprised again!


This Is Your Life

The Daily Mail profiles the programme's history


Alicia Markova


Kiri Te Kanawa

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Eva Turner's biography

Linda Esther Gray recalls this edition of This Is Your Life in her book, A Life on the High Cs...


At the end of her 90th birthday year Eamonn Andrews presented her with another red This Is Your Life book and she was seen on television throughout Britain smiling and laughing her way through the retelling of her great life.


It was a joyous happy programme with satellite relays of Placido Domingo and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa paying tribute to her from America, Dame Joan Sutherland from Australia and Tito Gobbi from Italy.


Alicia Markova, Sir Geraint Evans, Sir Bernard Miles and Lady Josephine Miles, and her old school friend Maude Thomson joined her for the occasion in person and spoke most generously of their happy relationship with Dame Eva.


Also included on stage were some of her past students Pauline Tinsley, Elizabeth Vaughan, Patricia Routledge, Anna Cooper and myself among others, and Charles Craig and Dame Gwyneth Jones. [Bigredbook.info editor: Gwyneth Jones is not name checked so we are unable to confirm her participation in the programme] Dame Eva also enjoyed the entertainment which Hinge and Bracket provided for the occasion...

Series 23 subjects

Ranulph Fiennes | Diana Dors | Joan Collins | Katie Boyle | Diane Keen | Brian Johnston | Leslie Mitchell | Lewis Collins
Marty Wilde | Catherine Cookson | Allan Wells | Stan Stennett | Gloria Hunniford | Robert Carrier | Johnny Briggs 
John P Spencer | Eva Turner | Kenny Dalglish | Gerald Durrell | Jo Grimond | Anna Neagle | Kitty Wilson
Charlie Magri | Sandy Gall | Arthur Marshall | Jimmy Tarbuck