Va tu sei libero by Dalida

What do Strictly Come Dancing and Killing Eve have in common? As unlikely as it sounds it is just the one song. On Strictly it was "You Don't Own Me" by Lesley Gore, so good that it received it's own post in November 2016.

But watching Episode 7 of the second series of Killing Eve last night we had the Italian version by Dalida (above) right at the end. I actually prefer the Lesley Gore original from 1963, recorded when she was seventeen, written by John Madara and David White. Madara says: "Our original intent was to write a song with a woman telling a man off: 'Don't tell me what to do, don't tell me what to say.' Though we didn't realise it at the time that it would become a woman's anthem, it definitely was our intention to have a woman make a statement." They certainly did that.