Dusty is to be featured in a new BBC1 series on April 1st at 22:45.

Queens Of British Pop is a two-part series which celebrates 12 female singers and icons who have influenced British pop music from the Sixties to the present day. The series features new interviews with iconic stars including Sandie Shaw, Suzi Quatro, Siouxsie Sioux, Annie Lennox and Leona Lewis.

In the first programme, narrator Liza Tarbuck takes viewers back to the early Sixties and on to the cusp of the Eighties, exploring the lives and careers of Dusty Springfield, Sandie Shaw, Marianne Faithfull, Suzi Quatro, Kate Bush and Siouxsie Sioux. They are all female artists who pioneered some of Britain's defining musical movements, from the Swinging Sixties through to glam rock and punk.

The programme features new interviews with Sandie Shaw, Marianne Faithfull, Suzi Quatro, Siouxsie Sioux and contributions from friends and fans, including Sir Tom Jones, Lulu, Burt Bacharach, John Lydon, Martha Reeves, Nancy Sinatra, Mark Radcliffe, Henry Winkler, Marc Almond, Peter Gabriel, Claire Grogan, Jarvis Cocker, Kiki Dee and Adele.