Music “It’s exciting to be playing music that 10 years ago would have been really under the radar.” Apple Music Before speaking to Dotty, I was pretty confident about my knowledge of Black music. But when the 32-year-old radio presenter and broadcaster starts speaking about Ghanian drill and Kenyan R&B, I quickly realise how wrong I was. “There are so many pockets of music from around the world that you may have never tapped into,” she says. Luckily, I can learn all about them on her new Apple Music radio programme, The Dotty Show , which will celebrate Black music from the UK and beyond. Dotty (who was born Ashley Charles) is fresh from leaving her long-standing gig BBC 1Xtra’s breakfast slot earlier this year. It was a pivotal role that showcased the broadcaster’s refreshing approach to interviews – or, as she puts it, “random conversations” – with everyone from Stormzy to Will and Jada Pinkett Smith. “I could have never forseen speaking to Jada Pinkett about which Will Smith movie she thinks is the worst,” she laughs. “But that’s the conversation we ended up having – her telling me how awful Will Smith was in The Legends of […]

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