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Harry Styles to open up about his life and career in one-off BBC programme

The singer will be interviewed by Nick Grimshaw.
The singer will be interviewed by Nick Grimshaw. The singer will be interviewed by Nick Grimshaw.

One Direction star turned solo artist Harry Styles will discuss his life and music as part of a special one-off TV programme on his career so far.

The singer will be interviewed by his friend and Radio 1 DJ Nick Grimshaw as part of Harry Styles At The BBC which follows similar programmes featuring Adele and Michael Buble.

Styles and Grimshaw will discuss the 23-year-old’s eponymous number one debut album and the launch of his acting career in Christopher Nolan’s wartime epic Dunkirk.

Harry Styles to open up about his life and career in one-off BBC programme
Harry Styles to open up about his life and career in one-off BBC programme
Harry Styles in Dunkirk

The 60-minute programme will be filmed in front of a live audience in Manchester and will be broadcast on BBC One in November.

Styles will perform music from his album including tracks never played before for a TV audience.

Harry Styles
Harry Styles
Harry Styles (Lauren Hurley/PA)

Grimshaw said: “Harry is a great performer and full of so many wonderful stories about his extraordinary career, which he’ll be sharing with us, I can’t wait for this show.”

Director of BBC radio and music, Bob Shennan, said the BBC was “committed to supporting a range of new and established acts”.

He added: “I’m very happy that we’re able to bring Harry to BBC One this autumn for such a unique show.”

Adele’s one-off programme, in which she was interviewed by Graham Norton, was nominated for a Bafta and included a sketch which saw the singer play herself in front of Adele impersonators.