Overview

This is the 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 WWII 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 theatre director Joan Littlewood; and becoming the blonde bombshell in the Carry On films. Babs, ever the consummate professional, never lets her fans down whatever her personal anguish and steps on the stage to rapturous applause.

Top Cast

Jaime Winstone

Barbara Windsor (Young Adult)

Samantha Spiro

Babs

Nick Moran

John Deeks

Leanne Best

Rose Deeks

Zoë Wanamaker

Joan Littlewood

Barbara Windsor

Barbara Windsor

Honor Kneafsey

Teen Barbara

Florence Keen

Child Barbara

Luke Allen-Gale

Ronnie Knight

Julia Ford

Julie Deeks

Nathan Harmer

Brian Mickey

Marty Cruikshank

Aida Foster