New series 1/6. Jazz vocalist
Clare Teal tackles the often male-heavy image of jazz with a celebration of some of the greatest female singers in her field. She starts her survey with a tribute to stylish jazz maverick Anita O'Day , who broke social taboos in her 1940s appearances with black performers and who, in her day, defied the female stereotype. She also succumbed to heroin addiction. The programme features a previously unaired interview with O'Day, who died in November, aged 87. Producer Graham Pass