Chris Evans with Scott Mitchell

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Virgin Radio UK

Comedy, Unknown

4.4 • 681 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast special Chris chats to Scott Mitchell, husband of Barbara Windsor. Hear how Scott and Barbara met, some of the ups and downs, how Barbara came to be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2014 and how they've been living with dementia for nearly five years.

As well as their love story, Chris and Scott discuss how running is playing a massive part in coping and moving forward, including running the Virgin Money London Marathon 2019 and how you can help such an important cause. https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/Barbarasrevolutionaries

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0:00.0	Thank you so much for downloading this special podcast from us here at Virgin Radio. This week,
0:04.6	we recorded a heartwarming and very moving chat with Barbara Windsor's husband, Scott Mitchell. We talked
0:09.6	about their lives together, how they met the ups, the downs, and how they're now living
0:13.6	with dementia. Plus, how running is playing an important part in moving all of that forward.
0:20.4	So, Scott, when did you first set eyes on Barbara Windsor?
0:24.7	I first set eyes on Barbara Windsor in the, it was the end of 1992 and she was staying at a
0:33.1	lovely actor's house called Victor Spenetti, the wonderful Victor Spenetti, who Barbara and Victor
0:40.0	had been on Broadway together and at Stratford East and all these places. It was this lovely
0:45.1	Welsh actor. And the reason that I set eyes on her was because Barbara and my mum went to
0:50.6	dance in school together when they were between the ages of 11 and 14. So they knew
0:55.9	each other and always got on really well. I'd just left drama school. I was down in Sussis.
1:01.7	That's where we lived. We lived down in Hove. And my mum said to me, oh, by the way, our old friend
1:06.7	Barbara Windsor's down here in Pantam at the Theatre Royal and we've invited her over for dinner.
1:12.3	So why don't you stay and have dinner with the three of us? And I said, I'm not being funny.
1:17.8	I said, I'm 29 years of age. Why do I want to sit with you two and Barbara Windsor and have dinner?
1:22.5	Which was a really bizarre thing to say. But my mum said, oh, I'm surprised at you, Scott. You know, she's so knowledgeable
1:28.0	about the business. She's such a lovely lady, you're loving. And then I kind of checked myself and
1:32.0	thought, yeah, what a weird reaction that was. And I did. And I came back down the next day and
1:37.9	I went to pick Barbara out and I remember her opening the door and this like vivacious, really, really like little cracker open the door looking at
1:47.8	me and it's nothing like I expected her to be and we just stood there and kind of looked at each other
1:52.5	I said hi I'm Scott Rita's son and she said oh well you're going to have to come in because I'm not
1:58.0	ready yet meanwhile she had a coat on, she had everything on,
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