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.
Cast includes: Barbara Windsor, Jamie Winstone, Samantha Spiro, Nick Moran, Leanne Best and Zoë Wanamaker. Writer: Tony Jordan.
Babs is a BBC Studios production in association with Red Planet Pictures for BBC One and distributed by BBC Studios.