Samantha Spiro as Barbara Windsor, Lost sculpture of the Festival of Britiain and a retro album from Danger Mouse
John Wilson talks to Samantha Spiro about playing Barbara Windsor in the film of her life, Babs. And the restoration of a rediscovered sculpture.
Samantha Spiro has played the role of Barbara Windsor both on stage and on television and now returns to the role in a new Â鶹ԼÅÄ biopic of Dame Barbara. She talks about how she shares the role with three other actors and the contrast with the other roles she is playing such as Catherine the Great on Radio 4.
Record producers Brian Burton, aka Danger Mouse, and Sam Cohen discuss working together on their album, Resistance Radio: The Man In The High Castle Album. Inspired by an Amazon TV series which imagines a world in which the allies lost WW2, they selected songs from the 50s and 60s, and recorded them with artists such as Beck and Norah Jones.
Two weeks ago we revealed that Historic England had unearthed a lost treasure of the 1951 Festival of Britain in a hotel garden in Blackheath. John Wilson joined the daughter of the sculptor Peter Laszlo Peri at a studio in Surrey to see The Sunbathers painstakingly reassembled. Eighty five-year-old Ann MacIntyre had not seen her father's sculpture for over 60 years and believed it lost forever when the Southbank site was demolished at the end of the Festival.
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Samantha Spiro as Barbara Windsor
Duration: 07:30
Lost Festival of Britain sculpture is restored
Duration: 09:20
Look forward to Venice Biennale
Duration: 02:26
Danger Mouse's retro new album
Duration: 08:12
Samantha Spiro as Barbara Windsor
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, theÌýfilm ofÌýBarbara Windsor's life story, is on Â鶹ԼÅÄ 1 on 07 May 2017 at 8.00pm, and on the Â鶹ԼÅÄ iPlayer.
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Main Image above: Samantha Spiro as Babs
Image to the left:ÌýBarbara Windsor (Centre), with Samantha Spiro as Babs and Jaime Winstone as Barbara (Right).
Lost Festival of Britain sculpture
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hopes to display The Sunbathers sculptures by Peter Lazslo PeriÌýafter their restoration is complete at The Royal Festival Hall inÌýLondon for three months during summer 2017.
Image: JohnÌý Wilson with conservator Tessa Jackson (Centre)Ìýand Ann MacIntyre, the artist's daughter, at the start of The Sunbathers' restoration. ÌýÌý
Danger Mouse
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, the album produced by and Brian Burton aka ,Ìýis out now on 30th Century Records.
Image: Simon Cohen (Left) and Danger Mouse
Looking forward to the Venice Biennale
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Artist Phyllida Barlow represents Britain in the British Pavilion at the , which runs from 13 May to 26 November 2017.
Image: Phyllida Barlow, British Pavilion, Venice, 2017.
Image credit:ÌýRuth Clark © British Council.
Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
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Role Contributor Presenter John Wilson Interviewed Guest Samantha Spiro Interviewed Guest Brian Burton Interviewed Guest Sam Cohen Interviewed Guest Ann MacIntyre Broadcast
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