ˌThis is Your ˈLife BrE AmE
a British and US television programme in which a famous person’s life story is told. It begins when the ↑ presenter surprises someone and says ‘This is Your Life’, before taking him or her to a television studio. The famous person’s friends and relations have been secretly brought to the studio to meet them there and say something about them. At the end of the programme the presenter hands the person a large red book containing the story of their life.