The dramatic life of Dame Shirley Bassey is being made into a film for television.
The Cardiff-born singer, who grew up in poverty in the city's docklands, is the daughter of a British mother and Nigerian father and left school at 15 to work in a local factory.
She sang in working men's clubs before she was discovered by band leader Jack Hylton. Her biggest hits include themes to James Bond films including Goldfinger and Diamonds Are Forever.
The film is the latest in a string of BBC bio-pics of entertainment legends.
The film about Dame Shirley, which is billed as showing her “difficult rise from poverty to international stardom”, is part of a BBC2 season about mixed-race life in Britain. - Belfast Telegraph