Billie Holliday: The Long Night of Lady Day - Arena

BBC Four HD

1:25 AM to 2:50 AM

Tuesday 7 October

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A 1984 profile of the jazz singer, from her traumatic childhood in Baltimore to her premature death in a New York hospital at the age of 44, told in the words of her closest friends and colleagues. The programme features a number of filmed performances and includes classics such as God Bless the Child, Don't Explain and Fine and Mellow