The Last Bohemians
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The Last Bohemians
The Last Bohemians is an award-winning, critically acclaimed podcast that meets maverick and radical women in arts and culture and takes listeners on an evocative trip through their extraordinary lives. From subversive musicians and style icons to game-changing artists, these are women who have live...
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28 episodiNikki Giovanni: the late great poet on integrity, self-care and Tupac tattoos
Nikki Giovanni was one of the greatest poets of her generation and it was an honour to sit with her for a special episode of The Last Bohemians, recor...
Sue Tilley: the 1980s club kid and artist on Leigh Bowery and modelling for Lucian Freud
Rewind to the 1980s and London nightlife was an explosion of creativity – the new romantics were in, dramatic fashion looks were everywhere and at the...
Molly Parkin: the grand dame of British bohemia on Soho's glory days, Louis Armstrong and self love
The inspiration for this series, Molly Parkin is a painter, erotic novelist and a former fashion editor who was once just as famous for her bedroom li...
Michéle Lamy: the subversive style shaman on couture, chaos and Kim Kardashian
For the final episode of The Last Bohemians: LA, supported by Audio-Technica, we meet French fashion disruptor and true original, Michéle Lamy. She’s...
Penny Slinger: the feminist surrealist who was too erotic for the art world
Penny Slinger was a mover and shaker in Swinging London's art scene – though you might not have heard of her. She went to Chelsea Art School at the he...
Johanna Went: the cult performance art-punk on feminism, fake blood, embracing ageing and inspiring Lady Gaga
Speak to anyone from the 1980s punk scene in Los Angeles and they’ll tell you: Johanna Went is an underground legend. While the bands like Black Flag,...
Lynn Castle: LA's first lady barber on Elvis, the LSD-soaked Sixties and her secret music career
In the north of Los Angeles, in a neighbourhood called Glendale, an unassuming bungalow is home to one of the first women in Hollywood to cut men’s ha...
Betye Saar, Alison Saar and Maddy Leeser on creativity, mysticism and motherhood
Our LA series, supported by Audio-Technica, returns this week with a Last Bohemians first: in a very special episode, we speak to three generations of...
Linda Ramone: the NYC punk in LA on love triangles, legacies and keeping rock'n'roll alive
The Last Bohemians returns with a brand new series set in Tinseltown, supported by Audio-Technica. From forgotten feminist artists to Sunset Strip sex...
Gloria Hendry: the Live and Let Die star on Bond, Playboy Bunnies and the blaxploitation era
The Last Bohemians returns with a brand new series set in Tinseltown, supported by Audio-Technica. From forgotten feminist artists to Sunset Strip sex...
Angelyne: the magic and mystery of LA's original influencer
The Last Bohemians returns with a brand new series in Tinseltown, supported by Audio-Technica. From forgotten feminist artists to Sunset Strip sexpots...
The Last Bohemians: Los Angeles - Trailer - New series launching July 2022
The Last Bohemians has gone to LA for a brand new series, supported by Audio-Technica, starting in July and starring LA icon Angelyne, subversive fash...
Cleo Sylvestre: the veteran actor on resilience, rejection, the Rolling Stones and representing the working class
Cleo Sylvestre (1945-) is a woman of many firsts: she is the first Black woman to play a leading role at the National Theatre in London, one of the fi...
Dana Gillespie: the Swinging Sixties wild child on sex, spirituality and Ziggy Stardust
Dana Gillespie (1949-) is one of the few remaining women who was at the centre of the Sixties and Seventies in London and in New York, having been bes...
Maggi Hambling: the great British artist on controversy, criticism and being a queer icon at 76
Maggi Hambling (1945-) is a British painter and sculptor whose visceral work spans portraits of her bohemian friends past – from Soho dandy Sebastian...
Maxine Sanders: the witch queen on casting spells, surviving persecution and the power of sex magic
Maxine Sanders is one of the country’s most iconic and possibly most controversial witches. In the 1960s and 70s, she and her late husband Alex Sander...
Zandra Rhodes: Studio 54, punk and the power of fuchsia with the British style icon
Zandra Rhodes OBE has spent 50 years at the forefront of British fashion, having dressed everyone from Freddie Mercury to Princess Diana in her signat...
P.P. Arnold: the soul survivor surveys the Swinging Sixties, sexual revolution and Mick Jagger
P.P. Arnold isn’t called a soul survivor for nothing. She recently made a comeback with her first album in 50 years, following a long, hard fight, at...
Vivienne Dick: the experimental feminist film-maker digs back into New York's 1970s no wave scene
"Often women artists do all their best work when they're older
You feel stronger, you feel like you've got nothing to lose"
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Gee Vaucher: the visual artist behind Crass on curiosity, communal living and where punk went wrong
Gee Vaucher isn’t perhaps as well known as some of her punk peers, but she should be: she’s one of the artists who defined punk’s visuals of protest i...
Judy Collins: the frank and fearless folk legend on touring at 80, art and activism, and making Leonard Cohen famous
Judy Collins is a folk music legend, with a career spanning six decades, from the 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene to California, as the Flower Powe...
The Last Bohemians – Series Two Trailer
The Last Bohemians returns for series two with eight maverick women and fearless firebrands in arts and culture: folk legend Judy Collins, iconic Brit...
Pamela Des Barres: the definitive rock'n'roll groupie discusses Led Zeppelin, her wild past and the #MeToo movement
Pamela Des Barres is the definitive groupie who moved to Hollywood in the 1960s, embraced free love and hippiedom, and frolicked with musicians like T...
Cosey Fanni Tutti: sex, subversion and class with the artist and industrial music pioneer
When it comes to uncompromising musicians and artists, Cosey Fanni Tutti is in a league of her own. As part of Throbbing Gristle in the 1970s, she hel...
Pauline Black: the original rude girl on female empowerment, intersectionality and being a music trailblazer
Think of punk and ska in 1980s Britain and you may well picture bands like The Clash and The Specials. Pauline Black, however, is the original rude gi...
Amanda Feilding: beat poets, psychedelics and self-trepanation with the leading LSD campaigner and countess
Amanda Feilding is flying the flag for the medical benefits of recreational drugs like cannabis and LSD with her pioneering work at The Beckley Founda...
Bonnie Greer: the playwright and critic considers Basquiat, Madonna, making work about race and how not to play it safe as an artist
Chicago-raised Bonnie Greer is instantly recognisable in the UK as a television pundit, playwright and critic. She famously took on former BNP leader...
S1: The Last Bohemians - Trailer - Launching 4 March 2019
The Last Bohemians is an independent new audio series that meets female firebrands and controversial outsiders from significant eras in culture and th...