Mocked as a manufactured “singing budgie” and handed a song written in 40 minutes while she sat in a studio hallway, Kylie Minogue was cast as a fragile industry puppet from the very start. This episode traces how the Australian soap star turned Neighbours’ Charlene into the launchpad for one of pop’s most improbable, enduring careers.

We follow her arc from Stock Aitken Waterman bubblegum pop to indie reinvention with Nick Cave, the disco triumph of “Fever,” her public battle with breast cancer and the life-saving “Kylie Effect,” and her late-career reclamation of control by engineering “Disco” in her own living room. It’s a study in resilience built on joy rather than shock value.

• How being fired from The Henderson Kids and dubbed too fragile shaped her early narrative
• Why Nick Cave heard darkness in “Better the Devil You Know” and gave her indie credibility
• The “Kylie Effect”: a documented surge in young women booking breast cancer screenings
• Learning Logic Pro to engineer her own vocals for the album “Disco” during lockdown
• Grammy wins 20 years apart and a UK number one album across five consecutive decades