Billie + Q&A (15)

Born Eleanora Fagan in 1915 Philadelphia, jazz singer Billie Holiday burned bright for 44 years with songs including God Bless The Child, I Loves You, Porgy, I Only Have Eyes For You and Strange Fruit. This documentary draws on more than 200 hours of previously unheard interviews recorded in the 1970s by the journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl. Home movie footage, archive material and stills are combined with performances in colour for the first time.