Watching this repeat from 1963, one of the first remarkable things you notice is how bossy Eamon Andrews could be. I suppose it must have been quite a difficult job, surprising celebrities who didn't really want to be surprised, but going by this show and my distant memories This is Your Life could be an ordeal - for Eamon, the star guest and the audience - as well as light entertainment. It was also scandal free so was more like This is Part of Your Life, and as viewers of the earlier programme, Hattie, would already know, her boyfriend didn't count in this sanitised biography.
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