Billie Holiday
Singer and actress Pauline Black chooses a jazz legend, the singer Billie Holiday. With Matthew Parris. From May 2007.
Singer and actress Pauline Black chooses a jazz legend, the singer Billie Holiday.
Pauline Black, lead singer with The Selecter, nominates Billie Holiday, one of the greatest jazz singers of all time. Pauline played Billie in an award-winning stage role in 1990.
Matthew Parris and Pauline Black are joined by Julia Blackburn, whose book 'With Billie' was based on the observations of people who knew her.
Producer: Miles Warde
First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in May 2007.
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- Tue 1 May 2007 16:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 FM
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