Former Playboy model, Anna Nicole Smith, is the muse of BBC4 in their new collection of operas. Alongside Anna Nicole Smith we can expect a Douglas Adams adaptation and Macbeth film in the season’s line-up. The Anna Nicole Smith opera tells the story of her turbulent and dramatic life that the public are no stranger to due to her intense past relationship with the media. The narrative will highlight details from her marriage to oil tycoon J Howard Marshall, more than 60 years her senior, in 1994 and then following his death covers the consequent lengthy legal battle Smith endured over the settlement of his estate. Concluding in 2007 with Smith’s death from a prescription drugs overdose, aged 39. The BBC4 controller, Richard Klein, said that BBC4 seeks to “provide context and complexity, and all with a strong flavour of wit and opinion…delighted to be able to offer a host of deliciously inventive, thought-provoking and entertaining programmes over the next 6 months.” Due to be broadcast early 2011, we can look forward to re-living the thrills, turmoil and trauma of the late Anna Nicole Smith.