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Episode Synopsis
This week's Desert Island Discs castaway is the effervescent actress Barbara Windsor. She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her early life in London's East End, the Carry On films for which she is, of course, best known, and the strain of a tumultuous private life often hidden behind the public facade of an irrepressibly good-humoured cockney sparrow.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Extract from The Secret Life Of Anthony Hancock by Galton & Simpson
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