Record

Performance TitleMiss World Pageant 1981
Performance Date12 November 1981
Performance DayThursday
Performance Time20:00
Main PerformersEric Morley - speaker,
Helen Reddy - vocal

Miss World contestants:
Ana Helen Natali (Argentine),
Gerarda Hendrine Jantiene Roepel (Aruba),
Beatrix Kopf (Austria),
Melissah Hannan (Australia),
Monique Ferguson (Bahamas),
Dominique Van Eeckhoudt (Belgium),
Cymoon Tucker (Bermuda),
Carolina Diaz Mansour (Bolivia),
Maristella Silva Grazzia (Brazil),
Earla Stewart (Canada),
Donna Marie Myrie (Cayman Islands),
Susana Bravo Indo (Chile),
Nini Johanna Soto Gonzalez (Colombia),
Sucetty Salas (Costa Rica),
Mylene Mariela Gerard (Curacao),
Elena Andreou (Cyprus),
Tina Brandstrup (Denmark),
Josefina Cuello Perez (Dominican Republic),
Lucia Vinueza (Ecuador),
Martha Alicia Ortiz (El Salvador),
Pia Irmeli Ann-Marie Nieminen (Finland),
Isabelle Sophie Benard (France),
Barbara Reimund (Germany),
Yvette Maria Bellido (Gibraltar),
Maria Argirocastritou (Greece),
Rebecca Arroyo (Guam),
Beatriz Bojorquez Palacios (Guatemala),
Saskia Lemmens (Holland),
Xiomara Sikaffy Mena (Honduras),
Winnie Chin (Hong Kong),
Asdis Eva Hannesdottir (Iceland),
Deepti Divakar (India),
Geraldine McGrory (Ireland),
Nicola-Jane Grainger (Isle of Man),
Ninette Assor (Israel),
Marisa Tutone (Italy),
Sandra Angela Cunningham (Jamaica),
Naomi Kishi (Japan),
Elizabeth Sarah Walmsley (Jersey),
Hanna Lee (Korea),
Zeina Joseph Challita (Lebanon),
Palesa Joyce Kalele (Lesotho),
Cynthia Geraldine de Castro (Malaysia),
Elizabeth-Mary French (Malta),
Doris Pontvianne (Mexico),
Raewyn Patricia Marcroft (New Zealand),
Anita Nesbo (Norway),
Jennifer Abaijah (Papua New Guinea),
Olga Roxana Zumaran (Peru),
Suzette Nicolas (Philippines),
Andrenira Ruiz (Puerto Rico),
Sushil Sandhu (Singapore),
Cristina Perez (Spain),
Sonya Elizabeth Tucker (Sri Lanka),
Joan Boldewijn (Suriname),
Carita Gustafsson (Sweden),
Margrit Kilchoer (Switzerland),
Maimiti Kinnander (Tahiti),
Massupa Karbprapun (Thailand),
Rachael Ann Thomas (Trinidad and Tobago),
Aydan Sener (Turkey),
Michele Donnelly (U.K.),
Lisa Moss (U.S.A.),
Marianela Bas Carresse (Uruguay),
Pilin Leon (Venezuela),
Juliana Curry (Western Samoa),
Juliet Nyathi (Zimbabwe)
Secondary PerformersDougie Squire Dancers
Orchestra or BandPhil Tate and His Orchestra
Performance NotesThe Competition was won by Pilin Leon, Miss Venezuela.

The event and dress rehearsal the previous day were recorded by Thames Television and broadcast on Thames Television on 12 November 1981.
Original footage is held by the British Film Institute (BFI identifier 233887).
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1981/171),
B&W photograph of the winner (RAHE/3/1981/4)
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/SWJSWe1SmzlwU
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1981/171Miss World Pageant 198112 November 1981
RAHE/3/1981/4Photograph of Miss World pageant12 November 1981
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Oipaxcnik_GetMiss World Pageant 19811
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/7812Chalmers; Judith (1936-); OBE; English television presenter
DS/UK/9217Reddy; Helen (1941-2020); Australian American singer, actress, activist
DS/UK/10853Morley; Eric (1918-2000); British founder of the Miss World pageant
DS/UK/9678Marshall; Peter (1945-); British broadcaster
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