BBC Documentaries

Billie Holiday: The Long Night of Lady Day (1985x7)

Uitzenddatum: Dec 07, 1985

Billie Holiday's tragic story, from her traumatic childhood ' in Baltimore to her premature death in a New i York hospital at the age of 44, is told in the words of her closest friends and colleagues - but mostly through the songs themselves. Arena has assembled an unprecedented number of her filmed performances.