Shelea, Reviewing Official Competition and Red Rose, Gus Casely-Hayford

Published: Aug. 18, 2022, 7:12 p.m.

The BBC Proms is celebrating what would\u2019ve been Aretha Franklin\u2019s 80th birthday, and leading the tribute is American singer-songwriter Shel\xe9a. She's a protegee of Quincy Jones who also found a mentor in Stevie Wonder, and names Natalie Cole and Whitney Houston as some of her inspirations. Shel\xe9a shares Aretha Franklin\u2019s influences of gospel, jazz and soul, and her skills to play the piano and turn her voice to a variety of styles. She performs live in the studio and demonstrates the power of Aretha\u2019s voice as well as her own.

For our Thursday review Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Olivia Laing have been watching Official Competition, a comedy film starring Pen\xe9lope Cruz, Antonio Banderas and Oscar Mart\xednez which takes aim at the film industry and its stars, and Red Rose, a BBC3 teen horror drama set in Bolton looking at the power of smartphones to shape young lives.

Torn is a new BBC Radio 4 series exploring ten key moments in the history of fashion, from the allure of mauve to the rebellion of mini-skirts. Presenter Gus Casely-Hayford, curator, historian and the inaugural director of V&A East, joins Shahidha for a whistlestop tour of fashion\u2019s cultural hits and environmental misses over five centuries.

Presenter: Shahidha Bari\nProducer: Sarah Johnson