Even the then Prime Minister Harold Wilson accepted his invitation to breakfast at the Connaught Hotel in 1966.Ī restaurant would be a good place to pin him down. Richard told us that their business relationship had begun five years previously with regular Friday morning breakfast meetings.Īnd we knew that David's famous breakfasts had often hit the headlines. Only the previous year, Richard had covered more than 150,000 miles in planes just keeping an eye on David's affairs – business affairs, that is. Next, we talked to Richard Armitage, who, as head of a London theatrical agency, discovered David when he was an undergraduate appearing at Cambridge University's Footlight's Theatre. How on earth, then, could we catch him?įirst, we talked to David's devoted secretary, Joan Pugh, who, in order to keep up with him herself, had in the past flown from London to New York taking dictation, only to fly straight back home again to type it up. He had been the first Englishman to have a five-night coast-to-coast chat show in America and was forever jetting around the world. And it was that success on the other side of the Atlantic that had been causing us problems ever since we decided to go for David Frost as a This Is Your Life story.Īs the world knew, David Frost had always been a young man in a hurry. In typical Frost style, his message came via a telephone from a BOAC jet 40,000 feet in the air en route to New York.ĭavid told me how his interview with Bob was the start of his highly successful American talk show series. One of the star contributors to the Bob Hope show was, of course, David Frost. Presenter Eamonn Andrews and producer Jack Crawshaw recall the experience of this particular edition of This Is Your Life in their book, Surprise Of Your Life.
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