Episode
Remembering Dolly Parton, Meg Mason and Notting Hill Carnival at 60
- Podcast
- Front Row
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- Aug 25, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 2521
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- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0030lzq
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Summary
Samira Ahmed spoke to Dolly Parton in 2023. As her death is announced Front Row pays tribute to the star of country music who sold more than 100 million records and wrote over 3,000 songs in a career that spanned six decades. A chance to hear Meg Mason, the bestselling author of Sorrow and Bliss, about her new novel, Sophie Standing There, which deals with celebrity obsession and the publishing industry. A new film looks at the story of the Second World War through General De Gaulle’s eyes. We speak to its director, Antonin Baudry, about De Gaulle: Resistance - this summer's hit in French cinemas. And we mark sixty years of the Notting Hill Carnival with founder member Allyson Williams and Ricky Belgrave, DJ and chair of the British Association of Sound Systems. Producer: Ruth Watts