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Dolly Parton makes her debut Glastonbury performance this weekend.ÌýHer platinum blonde hair, sequinned styling, and famous cleavage make her instantly recognisable, but it’s her wit, her writing, and her huge hits that have made her a star. As she’s said herself, "I may look fake, but I'm real where it counts." In her almost sixty year career, she’s sold more than 100 million records, received 46 Grammy nominations, and is a successful businesswoman and philanthropist, reputed to be worth a quarter of a billion dollars. Professor Helen Morales – whose new book about Dolly Parton is called Pilgrimage to Dollywood – and former NME Editor, and now Sunday Times journalist, Krissi Murison, who recently met Dolly in Tennessee, join Jenni to look at the enduring appeal of the Queen of Country.

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Dolly Parton will be making her debut performance at Glastonbury on Sunday, and is currently touring the UK until 2 July. Her latest album Blue Smoke: The Best of Dolly Parton is out now. And Helen Morales’s book Pilgrimage to Dollywood: a Country Music Road Trip through TennesseeÌýis published in July by University of Chicago Press.

All this week we’ve been hearing from a range of voices in different circumstances on how they are affected by feelings of loneliness. It’s something which can be experienced at any age, and is not restricted to the elderly or those who live alone, but it’s also a condition which seems to have a stigma attached and can be embarrassing to admit to. Today we look atÌýways to tackleÌýor even prevent loneliness. We hear from the charity , who organise monthly tea parties across the country, hosted by volunteers, to help older people feel less isolated. Jenni is joined by Laura Ferguson, Director of the , and by Tracey Robbins - Programme Manager for - to explore what is being done at both a policy and grassroots level to combat and reduce what is said to be the silent epidemic of our times.

Often seen as the mother of the Gothic Novel, Ann Radcliffe was the highest paid author of her time, but despite this has been widely ignored compared to writers like Jane Austen. This weekend The University of Sheffield is holding a conference to celebrate her 250th anniversary. So why has she been forgotten, and what influence does her writing have on contemporary gothic authors? To discuss, Jenni is joined by Rebecca Stott, Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, and by Angela Wright, Senior Lecturer in Romantic Literature at Sheffield University.

On platform one of Paddington railwayÌýstation in London, there is a statue of an unknown soldier reading a letter. is the name of a project which asks everyone to contribute to marking the outbreak of the First World War by writing one of their own. All the letters the soldier receives will be published on a website in an effort to create a war memorial. Jenni talks to Professor Kate Pullinger, co-creator of the project, who has invited people to write their own letters, and to the poet , who has written a letter of her own.

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Hollie McNish will be performing at the Latitude festival in July and she willÌýbe touringÌýin October