Stacey Dooley Sleeps Over starts on 3 May and her new podcast
Fresh Starts will be available on BBC Sounds from 4 May.
1. Podcast
Dolly Parton at a Grammy awards ceremony. Photograph: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP
I adore Dolly Parton, like everybody, for obvious reasons, but I really feel like this podcast broke everything down â I learned so much. I didnât realise how forward-thinking she was with her lyrics: a lot of her songs are about fundamental rights, such as Roe v Wade [abortion rights] or being in abusive relationships. I love the episode where sheâs talking very candidly about her relationship with men in her life and how dignified sheâs been when people havenât always treated her brilliantly. Sheâs just magnificent, isnât she? Itâs a lovely podcast.
Contestant
Dolli on Glow-Up
Credit: BBC
This week, I watched two historical documentaries about make-up. One was Make-up: A Glamorous History on BBC Two, which recreated the faces of the 18th century. The other was Glow-Up: Britain’s Next Make-up Star on BBC Three, which recreated the faces of 2019. But that’s only because I pressed the wrong button on iPlayer and watched an old series by mistake.
I’m glad I did, because now if I say anything that gives the impression I thought it was derivative codswallop, we can happily assume that it just
had to be derivative codswallop for its first series (to get the commission from nervous channel heads who need everything new to be like everything else they’ve seen before), and its 2021 incarnation is a radical new departure in original programme-making.