BBC Music announces exclusive ‘Amy Winehouse In Her Own Words’ programme on BBC iPlayer

BBC Music presents a portrait of Amy Winehouse - Amy Winehouse In Her Own Words - which will be available exclusively on BBC iPlayer from Monday 22 June at 6.30am.

The story is threaded together from extracts taken from interviews she gave to the BBC for a variety of music and documentary projects, including footage from the Jazz And Soul Britannia series on BBC Four, BBC One Sessions in 2007, Glastonbury 2004 and 2008, The 2004 Mercury Music Prize, Later with Jools Holland in 2006 and The Hootenanny 2006.

Much of the material has never previously been broadcast and is mixed with performances from across her career including some unseen footage of Amy performing Love Is A Losing Game and Wake Up Alone in a BBC One Session from 2007, and Stronger Than Me, a rarely seen acoustic set from Glastonbury in 2004.

Winehouse had a strong relationship with many parts of the BBC from when she launched herself as an artist back in 2004. In her short musical career, the North London native changed the landscape of modern pop culture, won countless awards, achieved critical acclaim and garnered global success before tragically dying at the tender age of 27.

Consisting of performances and interviews entirely from the BBC archives this film - only available on BBC iPlayer - celebrates Amy’s music, her influences, her challenges as an artist and her eternal brutal honesty in her own words.

James Stirling, Editor, BBC Music says: “We’re honoured to pay tribute to Amy with a programme featuring exclusive unseen and rare footage from her performances at the BBC. Amy wrote smart, sad, soulful and original pop songs that became instant classics and inspired a generation.”

In the programme, Amy Winehouse said: “I’d say to sing soul, I think you have to have grit, you have to be able to see through the world, you have to be able to be withdrawn sometimes and you have to be able to be your own best friend as well, it’s important. As well as your own worst enemy.”

This programme is part of BBC Music’s exclusive BBC iPlayer commissions, which include BBC Music Festival Pass, which recently took viewers on a behind-the-scenes journey with chart-topping Hackney collective Rudimental as they headlined Wildlife Festival; and All Shook Up, a brand new live music series hosted by 6 Music presenter Marc Riley, which includes performances from artists such as Wire, Monotony, Teleman, The Wytches and Jesca Hoop.