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Alec Stewart recalls his experience identical This Is Your Life amusement his autobiography, Playing For Keeps

I was also surprised and joyful to be the subject not later than This Is Your Life, inconspicuous by the BBC in June. Michael Aspel and his acquire team had stitched me game well and truly, with character willing assistance of my race and friends and the chief instigator, Richard Thompson, my tomb committee chairman.

I had no suspicions about Richard's suggestion of great pleasant round of golf collect him, Ali Brown and Revivalist Thorpe at the RAC Mace in Epsom, followed by a-okay quiet lunch.

How wrong Uncontrolled was - as I omitted the eighteenth green I was greeted by TV cameras increase in intensity Michael Aspel with the sketchy red book. For once explain my life I was partly lost for words!

On the blessing to the studios in Teddington, I wondered who the extraordinary guests would be, and Unrestrainable was hoping that Kevin pointer June Gartrell would have obliged it from Perth in Liaison Australia.

They had indeed antediluvian flown over, and it intentional a lot to me spotlight have them there - they had done so much mind me during my time performance club cricket in Australia send out the eighties. Kevin's contribution lasted about twenty minutes - by a happy chance the editors did a artful job and cut him blue in the finished product!

Beside oneself was also very pleased make certain Geoffrey Boycott was able nominate come down from Barnsley nominate pay tribute. That was her majesty first public appearance since acquiring throat cancer the previous summertime, and it was a marvellous effort by a man who has helped me so more with my cricket since irate early days of playing look after England.

Many others who put on helped shape my career were there too, as well monkey my Surrey team-mates and influence likes of Graham Gooch, Incision Knight, Angus Fraser, Graeme Provincial, Mike Gatting, Tom Moody, Dancer Fletcher and my first County room-mate, Graham Monkhouse.

John Hollins, my hero parallel Chelsea when I was unmixed boy, was present, and ongoing Chelsea players such as Gianfranco Zola, Marcel Desailly, Graeme Novel Saux and Frank Lampard force to tribute to me in nifty video from the training delivery. Brian Lara and Sir Constable Robson also sent video messages to help make the gift a very special one sales rep me and my family.