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The Carry Ons will be rightly prominent in the obits today, but I want to think of Barbara Windsor like this today, as key member of Joan Littlewood’s revolution in theatre. In 2014 I met with her at Stratford East to discuss her part in Oh What a Lovely War!
We talked about taking the play to New York, how she gave free tickets to the Quakers holding a vigil in Times Square for the victims of the war in Vietnam. Here she is with Littlewood arriving at the airport.
We also talked about Michael Gove, who had written about the play in the Daily Mail as a “prime source of left wing myths” that reflected “the unhappy compulsion ... to denigrate virtues such as patriotism, honour and courage.”
I asked Windsor what she’d say to the author if he walked into the room. She replied: “I’d say ‘fuck off’”
