Big Red Book
Celebrating television's This Is Your Life
Margaret HAYLES
THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Margaret Hayles, charity founder, was surprised by Michael Aspel in the foyer of Thames Television's Teddington Studios, having been led to believe she was there to be interviewed about a recently published book about her.
Margaret, a foundling baby left at Stockwell Underground station during the Blitz, was adopted by a Sussex-based banker and educated at Trevelyan Private School in Hayward's Heath. Having trained as a nurse, she left the profession to raise her family after getting married.
Looking for a new interest after her marriage failed, Margaret felt inspired by her neighbour's daughter, who had cancer and whose greatest wish was to meet jockey Bob Champion. Having successfully arranged the meeting, Margaret established Dreams Come True, a charitable organisation that has fulfilled the wildest dreams of over a thousand seriously ill children.
"How embarrassing! I just don't know what to say!"
programme details...
- Edition No: 753
- Subject No: 745
- Broadcast date: Wed 1 Feb 1989
- Broadcast time: 7.00-7.30pm
- Recorded: Tue 24 Jan 1989
- Venue: Teddington Studios
- Series: 29
- Edition: 16
- Code name: Stone
on the guest list...
- Simon Callagan - partner
- Lisa Davidson
- Danny Law
- Trudie Davies
- Ed French
- Sandra Bailey
- Lee Hooley
- Lindsay - daughter
- Mandy - daughter
- Nikki - daughter
- Jonathan - son
- Shirley - sister
- Sandy - niece
- Hubert Swatilla
- Terry Lightfoot and his band
- unnamed old friends from Hayward's Heath
- Sally Haigh
- Stephanie King
- Bob Champion
- Richard Branson
- Sarah Myatt
- Simon Honey
- Emma Doggett
- Caroline Hill
- Razor Ransbar
- Roger Daltrey
- Michael Strohm
- Daniel Strohm
- Nathalie - granddaughter
- Sophie - granddaughter
- Shirley Balhatchet Filmed tributes:
- Barry Sheene
- Cliff Richard
- Steve Davis
- Samantha Fox
- Paul Young
- Dr Ray Powles
- child patients at the Royal Marsden Hospital
- Russ Abbot
production team...
- Researchers: Caroline Blackadder, Tom Wettengel
- Writer: Roy Bottomley
- Directors: Brian Klein, David Clark
- Producer: Malcolm Morris
- names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life
the unsung heroes
Screenshots of Margaret Hayles This Is Your Life
Series 29 subjects
Mickey Rooney | Phil Collins | Paul Daniels | Tom Finney | Esther Rantzen | Richard Todd | Engelbert HumperdinckBarry McGuigan | Robert Maxwell | Harry Corbett | Cliff Morgan | Roy Hudd | Claire Rayner | Cyril Bertram Mills
Dora Bryan | Margaret Hayles | Denis Healey | Gillian Lynne | Nigel Mansell | Su Pollard