TV review: Shirley; The Marvellous Mrs Beeton, with Sophie Dahl

Bassey's biopic was all about sparkly dresses and swoopy songs, but very little in the way of substance'When you look in the mirror who do you see?" Eliza Bassey asks her daughter Shirley. "Someone I don't know, I mean who's that?" says Shirley, indicating the person who looks exactly like her in the dressing-table mirror. "That's Shirley Bassey, that is," says mum, explaining the basics of what happens when photons hit a smooth reflective surface. How Stuff Works, with the Basseys? Actually Shi...

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