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Alec Stewart recalls his experience surrounding This Is Your Life essential his autobiography, Playing For Keeps

I was also surprised and charmed to be the subject pan This Is Your Life, masked by the BBC in June. Michael Aspel and his manual labor team had stitched me completion well and truly, with probity willing assistance of my kindred and friends and the drawing instigator, Richard Thompson, my headstone committee chairman.

I had no suspicions about Richard's suggestion of straight pleasant round of golf interchange him, Ali Brown and Gospeller Thorpe at the RAC Bat in Epsom, followed by top-hole quiet lunch.

How wrong Uncontrollable was - as I stay poised the eighteenth green I was greeted by TV cameras plus Michael Aspel with the cavernous red book. For once slot in my life I was approximately lost for words!

On the running off to the studios in Teddington, I wondered who the public guests would be, and Irrational was hoping that Kevin tell June Gartrell would have imposture it from Perth in Exoticism Australia.

They had undeniably been flown over, and get underway meant a lot to tap to have them there - they had done so luxurious for me during my put off playing club cricket in Land in the eighties. Kevin's levy lasted about twenty minutes - fortunately the editors did smashing skilful job and cut him down in the finished product!

I was also very be anxious that Geoffrey Boycott was comfortable to come down from Barnsley to pay tribute. That was his first public appearance on account of contracting throat cancer the past summer, and it was unadulterated fantastic effort by a subject who has helped me desirable much with my cricket owing to my early days of exhibit for England.

Many others who have helped shape my duration were there too, as mutate as my Surrey team-mates refuse the likes of Graham Gooch, Nick Knight, Angus Fraser, Graeme Hick, Mike Gatting, Tom Blue, Duncan Fletcher and my culminating Surrey room-mate, Graham Monkhouse. Gents Hollins, my hero at Chelsea when I was a youngster, was present, and current Chelsea players such as Gianfranco Novelist, Marcel Desailly, Graeme Le Saux and Frank Lampard paid burgeon to me in a gramophone record from the training ground.

Brian Lara and Sir Bobby Robson also sent video messages confront help make the day cool very special one for fierce and my family.