Dolly little bbc - BBC Two

From her humble beginnings to her global success, the film discovers how a young girl from the Smoky Mountains conquered Nashville to become the queen of country music.

In the early 1970s she was on such a roll that a single session in 1973 yielded both Jolene and I Will Always Love You.

Ballads of woe Songteller may surprise some casual fans with the bleakness of her early output.

It is a fantastic, intriguing, suspenseful story of friendship, rivalry secrecy and revenge, think Big Little Lies meets Girlfriends meets Peckham! Her between-song patter, polished to a high shine, was the primary source of delight.