Dolly Parton & Steve Coogan

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2017

⏱️ 79 minutes

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[r] This week, we've got two of Bullseye's greatest hits: First up, the one and only Dolly Parton! The legend of stage and song talks with Jesse about her impoverished childhood, how she's dealt with fame over the years and the songs that can still make her cry. Then, Steve Coogan. You've seen him in the Night at the Museum movies, maybe Philomena and his The Trip series. But if you're a comedy fan you probably know him best for one character: Alan Partridge. He's done the Alan Partridge character for 20 years now and is gearing up to another TV series around the feckless but charming sports host.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:15.2	I'm Jesse Thorn. When it comes to singers, Dolly Parton, she's just as good as it gets.
0:21.2	She's been through it all and she knows just went to summit the right emotion.
0:28.2	Five written some of the saddest songs when I was at my happiest.
0:35.2	It's Bullseye.
0:39.2	Coming up Dolly Parton, she'll talk about what it was like growing up poor in the great smoking mountains as the fourth of 12 children.
0:54.2	People say, well, we didn't have toys, why'd you play with us and we played with each other. We found time to stop to do.
1:01.2	And how her upbringing has influenced her career of the last four decades.
1:06.2	Then I'll talk with Steve Cougan, the trip movies, night at the museum, 24 hour party people and an Academy Award nomination for Screen Ratic on Filomena.
1:16.2	His resume is long and varied, but one thing has been constant, Alan Partridge.
1:23.2	The character started as a sort of no-nothing sports broadcaster.
1:28.2	He always said, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. He was Alexander Pope said that.
1:32.2	And Alan Partridge has got lots of little knowledge, if that makes sense.
1:37.2	Steve Cougan has now spent 20 years portraying him.
1:42.2	Like a relative that you're very fond of, but you only want to see it Christmas and holidays, you don't want to live with them.
1:49.2	He's just announced. Partridge is on his way back soon to BBC.
1:53.2	Finally, I'll tell you about a very surprising thing, inside the National Postal Museum.
1:59.2	That's all coming up on Bullseye. Let's go.
2:05.2	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
2:07.2	Dolly Partridge started her life as one of 12 siblings in a one-room house in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee.
2:13.2	Over her 50-plus-year career, she sold more than 100 million albums.
2:17.2	Built four theme parks, starred in movies and written for Broadway, not to mention started a charity empire that sent now more than 40 million books to children.
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