Article: TV review: British soap awards

The British Soap Awards ITV1

I'M not quite sure how EastEnders scooped the top honour at the British Soap Awards. Most people would rather admit to hosting a swinging party than watching it.

It's well known that at least 50 per cent of its audience have lost the remote control and are too lazy to get up to switch stations manually.

And yet here it is again, Best Soap, with a lifetime achievement award chucked in for Barbara Windsor. Now I've nothing against Barbara Windsor. That bit where her bra pings off in Carry On Camping is a treasured memory, forming 99 per cent of my sex education, and prompting a recent subscription to the Camping And Caravanning Club. But her later work has been ...

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