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All of Me – The Betrayal of Billie Holiday

When:                          10.30pm, 7th July 2009

Network:                      BBC Radio 2

Producer:                     Gail Champion

Presenter:                    Neneh Cherry

Executive Producer:     Liz Carney

As part of BBC Radio 2’s Billie Holiday season, Out Loud Media has produced an hour long special presented by Billie Holiday fan Neneh Cherry.  To mark the 50th anniversary of the singer’s death, the programme goes back to the underworld of 1940s New York to reveal how she was betrayed by her manager and sentenced to a year and a day in a tough segregated prison for drugs offences.

Using archive material from the narcotics officer assigned to the Billie Holiday case, as well as interviews with people who knew and played with her, this programme reveals Billie Holiday’s transformation from prisoner in a federal penitentiary to the pinnacle of her career, centre stage at Carnegie hall, all in just 11 days. With access to her prison and FBI file, this programme reveals how Billie Holiday’s betrayal in 1947 went on to influence her future and become the soundtrack of her life.

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