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4 Extra Debut. From Elgar to Elvis Presley. Carry On actress Barbara Windsor shares her castaway choices with Sue Lawley. From 1990.

Effervescent actress Barbara Windsor is castaway by Sue Lawley.

She looks back over her early life in London's East End, as well as the Carry On films for which she is, of course, best known.

Barbara also talks about the strain of a tumultuous private life often hidden behind the public facade of an irrepressibly good-humoured cockney sparrow.

DISC ONE: The Best Is Yet To Come - Frank Sinatra & Count Basie
DISC TWO: Ludwig van Beethovenβ€˜s FΓΌr Elise - Soloist: Alfred Brendel
DISC THREE: Sparrows Can't Sing - Barbara Windsor
DISC FOUR: Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley
DISC FIVE: Drive - The Cars
DISC SIX: Extract from Galton & Simpson’s The Secret Life Of Anthony Hancock - Tony Hancock, Hattie Jacques, Kenneth Williams
DISC SEVEN: Every Time You Go Away - Paul Young
DISC EIGHT: Edward Elgar’s Pomp & Circumstance March No. 1 in D major β€œLand of Hope and Glory” -
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Singers & Symphony Chorus with ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra

BOOK CHOICE: A book about Hollywood
LUXURY CHOICE: Writing materials and a Union flag
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Extract from Galton & Simpson’s The Secret Life Of Anthony Hancock - Tony Hancock, Hattie Jacques, Kenneth Williams

Producer: Olivia Seligman

First broadcast on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in September1990.

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