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Babs

BBC One

BBC One is a TV channel that started broadcasting on the 20th April 1964. It replaced BBC Television.

07/05/2017

BBC One - Babs

Drama telling the heartwarming story of actress Dame Barbara Windsor.

The dramatised, heartwarming story of actress Dame Barbara Windsor. Babs recounts the people and events that have shaped her life and career over fifty years from 1943 to 1993.

Written by Tony Jordan, this is the heartwarming story of Dame Barbara Windsor, the Cockney kid with a dazzling smile and talent to match. Preparing to perform in the theatre one cold evening in 1993, the cheeky, chirpy blonde Babs recounts the people and events that have shaped her life and career over fifty years from 1943 to 1993. 

She contemplates her lonely childhood and Second World War evacuation, her decision to go from Barbara Ann Deeks to Barbara Windsor - inspired by the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, her complicated relationship with her father, her doomed marriage to Ronnie Knight, capturing the attention of Joan Littlewood, and becoming the blonde bombshell in the Carry On films. Babs, ever the consummate professional, never let her fans down whatever her personal anguish and steps on the stage to rapturous applause.

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