Being Stanley Baxter

In the 70s and 80s TV stars didn’t shine any brighter than Stanley Baxter and on stage he was Scotland’s most beloved pantomime dame. His big-budget TV specials brought massive audiences to his elaborate sketches and film parodies in which he did impressions of everyone from Judy Garland to the Queen. They were innovative, risqué, and earned him a reputation for the best legs on television. But Stanley was a big success with an even bigger secret. Now, as he approaches his 100th birthday, with unique access to personal archive and candid audio recordings, we reveal the man behind the public persona of one of Scotland’s biggest superstars. Featuring testimony from famous fans, colleagues, close friends and family including Mark Gatiss, Alan Cumming, Rory Bremner, Suzy Izzard, Amanda Barrie, Elaine C Smith, Bill Paterson, Alex Norton and Stanley’s sister Alice Dale, speaking for the first time about her famous brother