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The Last Bohemians is an award-winning, critically acclaimed, independent podcast series that meets maverick and radical women in arts and culture and takes listeners on a vivid, hallucinatory trip through their extraordinary lives. From subversive musicians and style icons to game-changing artists, these are women who have lived life on the edge and who still refuse to play by the rules. The series was created in 2019 by host and journalist Kate Hutchinson and is produced by a team of risin ...
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#KanTalk is podcast-slash-almost-radio-show where International Relations scholar Sass Rogando Sasot and notoriously anonymous political observer Thinking Pinoy talk about the latest issues in the Philippine political arena.
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S4 Ep10: The Last Bohemians Live at Tate Lates: Hilma af Klint with Lily Cole and Amrita Dhallu
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Mystic. Painter. Feminist. Fantasist. Forgotten pioneer. Who exactly was Hilma af Klint? In this very special live episode of The Last Bohemians, as part of Tate Lates, host Kate Hutchinson talks to actor, model and activist Lily Cole and Amrita Dhallu, Assistant Curator of International Art at Tate Modern, to discuss the life (1862-1944) and work …
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S4 Ep9: Julia Cameron: the bestselling author on addiction, creative energy and The Artist's Way
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We've only gone and done a bonus episode! An audio addendum to our LA season this year, The Last Bohemians hopped over to Santa Fé to meet the one and only Julia Cameron. Our series is dedicated to creative women who've lived their lives outside the norm. Julia Cameron has spent hers guiding others, with her world-beating creativity manual The Arti…
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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 been married to the designer Rick Owens, her former pattern cutter, since 2006 and is often referred to as his 'muse'. But Michéle is a chameleonic creative in her own right, forever staging art happe…
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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 height of the Pop Art boom and, inspired by Max Ernst, went on to mix up self-portrait, collage, film and sculpture to create surreal and feminist images that still provoke today. Among these were her “…
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S4 Ep6: Johanna Went: the cult performance art-punk on feminism, fake blood, embracing ageing and inspiring Lady Gaga
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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, Fear and X were thrashing out their three chords and the truth, Went would take to the stage at clubs like The Masque, Club Lingerie and Hong Kong Cafe and perform between the live shows. The crowd h…
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S4 Ep5: Lynn Castle: LA's first lady barber on Elvis, the LSD-soaked Sixties and her secret music career
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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 hair. Today she goes by the glitziest of names, Madelynn von Ritz, but back in the 60s she was called Lynn Castle and hung out with key people of the era, lopping off Jim Morrison, the Byrds, Sonny Bono…
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S4 Ep4: Artists Betye Saar, Alison Saar and Maddy Leeser on creativity, mysticism and motherhood
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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 an American artistic dynasty up in the leafy hills of Laurel Canyon: the incredible Betye Saar, her daughter Alison Saar and and granddaughter Maddy Leeser. Betye Saar, 96 (she was 95 at the time of …
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S4 Ep3: Linda Ramone: the NYC punk in LA on love triangles, legacies and keeping rock'n'roll alive
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The Last Bohemians returns with a brand new series set in Tinseltown, supported by Audio-Technica. From forgotten feminist artists to Sunset Strip sexpots and from punk performers to subversive style disruptors (and one Californian arts dynasty!): these are some of the most maverick women in LA, whose stories each say something different about the …
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S4 Ep2: Gloria Hendry: the Live and Let Die star on Bond, Playboy Bunnies and the blaxploitation era
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The Last Bohemians returns with a brand new series set in Tinseltown, supported by Audio-Technica. From forgotten feminist artists to Sunset Strip sexpots and from punk performers to subversive style disruptors (and one Californian arts dynasty!): these are some of the most maverick women in LA, whose stories each say something different about the …
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The Last Bohemians returns with a brand new series in Tinseltown, supported by Audio-Technica. From forgotten feminist artists to Sunset Strip sexpots and from punk performers to subversive style disruptors (and one Bond Girl!), these are maverick and radical women whose stories each say something different about the City of Angels. Recorded in spr…
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Get in the mood for our upcoming LA series with this classic episode from series 1 featuring the OG Hollywood bohemian, Pamela Des Barres. The Last Bohemians: LA launches on 13 July 2022.Di House of Hutch
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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 fashion disruptor Michéle Lamy, punk-rock widow Linda Ramone, feminist surrealist Penny Slinger, punk performance artist Johanna Went, artists and sculptors Betye Saar, Alison Saar and Maddy Leeser, cult …
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S3 Ep3: Cleo Sylvestre: the veteran actor on resilience, rejection, the Rolling Stones and representing the working class
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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 first Black actors to have a recurring role in a primetime British soap and one of the first Black Brits to release a single in 1964 – with none other than her friends, The Rolling Stones. The Guardian …
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S3 Ep2: Dana Gillespie: the Swinging Sixties wild child on sex, spirituality and Ziggy Stardust
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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 best mates with David Bowie and pretty much anyone who was anyone back then. Eric Clapton was very nearly her guitar teacher, Led Zep’s Jimmy Page played on her early folk records and she was in and out …
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S3 Ep1: Maggi Hambling: the great British artist on controversy, criticism and being a queer icon at 76
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Maggi Hambling (1945-) is a British painter and sculptor whose visceral work spans portraits of her bohemian friends past – from Soho dandy Sebastian Horsley to Henrietta Moraes, once the 1950s queen of London bohemia and muse to Francis Bacon, then Maggi’s own – and divisive public works that include her giant scallop on a beach in Suffolk on the …
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For International Women’s Day 2021, The Last Bohemians returns with a special lockdown episode, supported by KLORIS, starring Marina Abramović: the groundbreaking Serbian artist and self-described "godmother of performance art" who has spent the past 50 years confronting the mental and physical limits of the body and using it as a powerful canvas. …
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S2 Ep7: Maxine Sanders: the witch queen on casting spells, surviving persecution and the power of sex magic
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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 Sanders were at the centre of Britain’s witchcraft boom. At the height of their fame, they were featured weekly in tabloid newspapers and starred in numerous documentaries and films where they would recreat…
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S2 Ep6: Sue Tilley: the 1980s club kid and artist on Leigh Bowery and modelling for Lucian Freud
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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 back of the club, having a gossip, there’d be Sue Tilley, also affectionately known as Big Sue. She was the best friend of the outrageous performance artist and fashion designer Leigh Bowery, who bec…
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Zandra Rhodes OBE has spent 50 years at the forefront of British fashion, having dressed everyone from Freddie Mercury to Princess Diana in her signature printed chiffons. Her work was adopted by the Studio 54 crowd in the 1970s, her gold lamé dresses modelled by the likes of Donna Summer and Pat Cleveland. Then she lacerated her chiffons with safe…
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S2 Ep4: P.P. Arnold: the soul survivor surveys the Swinging Sixties, sexual revolution and Mick Jagger
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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 the age of 73, to get her music career back on track. In America, she had been an Ikette with Ike & Tina Turner and then moved to London at the height of the Swinging Sixties, where she hung out with …
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S2 Ep3: Vivienne Dick: the experimental feminist film-maker digs back into New York's 1970s no wave scene
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"Often women artists do all their best work when they're older You feel stronger, you feel like you've got nothing to lose" Experimental film-maker Vivienne Dick moved from Ireland to New York in the late-70s and was at the heart of a scene called no-wave, an avant-garde music and art movement where people like director Jim Jarmusch, artist Basquia…
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S2 Ep2: Gee Vaucher: the visual artist behind Crass on curiosity, communal living and where punk went wrong
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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 in the 1970s, especially with her arresting photo-montage covers for Crass, the cult band and art collective she was part of, who put anarchy into practice. She had a stint in Manhattan as a political …
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S2 Ep1: Judy Collins: the frank and fearless folk legend on touring at 80, art and activism, and making Leonard Cohen famous
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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 Power movement took root, to now, at 80, still gigging hard every year with her guitar. Judy is what The New York Times called a “master song collector”. She is celebrated for reinterpreting other people’…
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The Last Bohemians returns for series two with eight maverick women and fearless firebrands in arts and culture: folk legend Judy Collins, iconic British designer Zandra Rhodes, soul survivor PP Arnold, anarchic punk artist Gee Vaucher, witch queen Maxine Sanders, experimental film-maker Vivienne Dick, 80s club kid Sue Tilley and literary maven Mar…
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S1 Ep6: Pamela Des Barres: the definitive rock'n'roll groupie discusses Led Zeppelin, her wild past and the #MeToo movement
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Pamela Des Barres is the definitive groupie who moved to Hollywood in the 1960s, embraced free love and hippiedom, and frolicked with musicians like The Who’s Keith Moon and The Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger. She documented it all in her iconic tell-all book I'm With The Band and she inspired the character Penny Lane in the film Almost Famous. During…
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S1 Ep5: Cosey Fanni Tutti: sex, subversion and class with the artist and industrial music pioneer
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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 helped pioneer industrial music and her solo shows, modelling work and ‘actions’, as she calls them – including those that were part of the cultish collective and commune COUM Transmissions – blurred the…
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S1 Ep4: Pauline Black: the original rude girl on female empowerment, intersectionality and being a music trailblazer
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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 girl. As the driving force behind Coventry 2-tone group The Selecter, she was a rare woman of colour making her way in music and sticking two fingers up to the skinheads while she was at it. Today Pauli…
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S1 Ep3: Amanda Feilding: beat poets, psychedelics and self-trepanation with the leading LSD campaigner and countess
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Amanda Feilding is flying the flag for the medical benefits of recreational drugs like cannabis and LSD with her pioneering work at The Beckley Foundation. Based out of the 75-year-old's tumbling country pile in Oxfordshire – which is ringed by a moat and has an island encircled with temple-like pillars – the foundation funds leading research into …
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S1 Ep2: Bonnie Greer: the playwright and critic considers Basquiat, Madonna, making work about race and how not to play it safe as an artist
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Chicago-raised Bonnie Greer is instantly recognisable in the UK as a television pundit, playwright and critic. She famously took on former BNP leader Nick Griffin on BBC's Question Time and has written five books and numerous plays that skewer politics, identity and race. The Last Bohemians meets Bonnie in Soho, London, where she explores how the 1…
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S1 Ep1: Molly Parkin: the grand dame of British bohemia on Soho's glory days, Louis Armstrong and self love
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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 liaisons with the movers and shakers of London. She is never without a bejewelled turban on her head or a saucy anecdote at hand. Now 87, she lives on the iconic World’s End estate in Chelsea, in a kale…
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The Last Bohemians is an independent new audio series that meets female firebrands and controversial outsiders from significant eras in culture and the arts. From subversive musicians and rock'n'roll groupies to groundbreaking artists and game-changing style icons, these are women who have lived life on the edge and still refuse to play by the rule…
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KanTalk With Sass And TP E 12: Jaybee Sebastian Revelations , De Lima New Senate Bill , Thinking Pinoy VS Rappler , US-Russia Relations , Agnes Callamard , FVR sermon , Pichay Vs Barbers
Episode 12 Topics: Jaybee Sebastian Revelations | De Lima New Senate Bill | Thinking Pinoy VS Rappler | US-Russia Relations | Agnes Callamard | FVR sermon | Pichay Vs Barbers
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KanTalk With Sass And TP E 11 Admin Apologies, Judy Taguiwalo, Endo, Epal Tarpaulin, Rappler - Fredoom of Speech, De Lima - Trillanes Walk Out, EJK Senate Hearing
Episode 11 Topics: Admin Apologies | Judy Taguiwalo | Endo (End of Contract) | Epal Tarpaulin | Rappler & Fredoom of Speech | De Lima / Trillanes Walk Out, EJK Senate Hearing
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Episode 10 Topics: Rappler and Paterno Esmaquel | Antonio "Sonny" Trillanes IV's Privilege Speech | Leila de Lima and Jaybee Sebastian | Prospective PH alliance with Beijing and Moscow.
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Episode 09 Topics: Congressional Hearing | Senate Hearing | Manny Pacquiao | Alan Peter Cayetano | Tito Sotto | Dick Gordon | Senator Ping Lacson | Leila de Lima | Matobato | Antonio "Sonny"Trillanes IV.
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Episode 08 Topics: International Media and its relations with PH Opposition | House of Reps Justice Committee Hearing | Alan Peter Cayetano vs Leila de Lima | National Union of Journalists of the Philippines and its hissy fit.
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Episode 07 Topics: Matobato and the Senate Hearing.
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Episode 06 Topics: Thinking Pinoy blocked on Facebook | Malacanang's conflicting statements | Official Gazette and Ferdinand Marcos | Duterte orders US out of Mindanao | Bud Dajo Massacre | Meiring Incident | Lee Kwan Yew vs Rodrigo Duterte | Journalist Anabel Hernandez vs the Mexican Drug Cartels.
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Special Guest: Atty. Trixie Cruz-Angeles Episode 05 Topics: Freedom of Information | State of Lawlessness | Writ of Habeas Corpus | Warrantless Arrests | Angelo Suarez and #MRTBulok | Stop and Frisk | Martial Law | TV Franchises | Rodrigo Duterte | ASEAN Summit | PH US Relations | PH-US-CN dynamic.
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Episode 04 Topics: Duterte "curses" at Obama | ABS-CBN and Davao Bombing | Alleged Bribery 1 Philip Jr Lustre | US Foreign Policy | Geopolitics | Leni Robredo and alleged Partying.
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Episode 03 Topics: Potential Suspects l ASEAN Summit I Rappler | US Foreign Policy | Geopolitics
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Episode 02 Topics: Rody Duterte and the Davao City Bombing | State of Lawlessness | Abu Sayyaf links w/ 14K Triad | Plan ICC | Bogs Obuyes and the Deposit Slips | Extrajudicial Killings | Russia | Leila de Lima's Political Prospects | Geopolitics.
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Episode 01 Topics: Extrajudicial Killings | Senate Hearings | Rappler | Leila de Lima | Walden Bello | Chito Gascon I International Opinion | International Criminal Court I Presidential Communications (Government of the Philippines).
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