Best Blaxploitation Podcasts (2024)

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It’s Time to Unpack The Baggage Filled With Trauma 2:18:07

20d ago2:18:07

2:18:07

Unpacking the baggage of trauma, discussing real experiences of how trauma affects individuals and how to move forward without the heaviness of trauma.

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Confessions of an Ex BLM Protestor and Ex Cop 3:46:22

1M ago3:46:22

3:46:22

The experiences and confessions of an ex cop and ex BLM protestor discussing discrimination, corruption, and hypocrisy with law enforcement agencies.

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Get a Dose! - Felonies Before Birth by Randall Cole 2:06:59

2M ago2:06:59

2:06:59

Examining and curing the viruses, “the evils that dwell in man’s heart,” with social justice activist, community healer, CFO of the non-profit organization The Coletrain Transformation Station, rehabilitation counselor, and author of Felonies Before Birth, Mr. Randall Cole.

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BIG MOUTH BLACK GIRL PODCAST - SEASON 3/Episode 1: “When it All Falls Down, What Happened to Her?” 2:05:37

2M ago2:05:37

2:05:37

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S4 Ep10: The Last Bohemians Live at Tate Lates: Hilma af Klint with Lily Cole and Amrita Dhallu 46:37

11M ago46:37

46:37

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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Vietnam Veterans, Brilliant Doctors, & Platform Shoes: Blackenstein [1973] 57:58

11M ago57:58

57:58

In this witching hour we are discussing the 1973 Horror film: Blackenstein [1973] "A war veteran (Joe DeSue) whose limbs were medically restored becomes a killer when his physician's (John Hart) aid switches his medication." Thank You For Listening! HOSTED BY: Selma [@detroit_la_comtesse] Salem [@amrheslasher] Want more from the Haus? - Watch Détro…

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Bounty Hunters, Bank Robbers, & Western Couture: Thomasine & Bushrod [1974] 58:13

11M ago58:13

58:13

In this witching hour we are discussing the 1974 Western film: Thomasine & Bushrod "Set in New Mexico during the years 1912-1915, a fictional black Bonnie and Clyde-type race through the Southwest in their ancient jalopies, shooting lawmen and sharing the riches with poor blacks, whites, and Indians alike. One avenging." Thank You For Listening! HO…

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Horror, Possession, & Numbers: J.D.'s Revenge [1976] 1:02:21

1y ago1:02:21

1:02:21

In this witching hour we are discussing the 1976 horror film: J.D.'s Revenge "Although notorious New Orleans gangster J.D. Walker (David McKnight) is shot and killed in the 1940s, his spirit remains restless for three decades, until a hypnotist's supernatural nightclub act allows him to take over the body of Isaac (Glynn Turman), a mild-mannered la…

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Crime, Action, & Blaxploitation: COFFY [1973] 51:08

1y ago51:08

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Welcome to Selma & Salem. This month we're discussing COFFY. The film that created thee superstar: Pam Grier. Thank You For Listening! HOSTED BY: Selma [@detroit_la_comtesse] Salem [@amrheslasher] Want more from the Haus? - Watch Détroit on Youtube! {catch Selma & Salem there too!!} - Listen to Mr. He's Calendar Ghouls - a podcast hung up on holida…

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Episode 10: Cotton Comes To Harlem 42:52

1y ago42:52

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Shawn Strong and Decarius McClearn discuss and review Cotton Comes To Harlem. Directed by the great Ossie Davis, starring Godfrey Cambridge and Raymond St. Jacques as "Gravedigger" Jones and "Coffin' Ed Johnson as two Harlem cops investigate a robbery, believing that Rev. Deke O'Malley played by Calvin Lockhart, have staged it to steal the money he…

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Selma & Salem Teaser 1:15

1y ago1:15

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<3 coming Feb 19th <3 Thank You For Listening! HOSTED BY: Selma [@detroit_la_comtesse] Salem [@amrheslasher] Want more from the Haus? - Watch Détroit on Youtube! {catch Selma & Salem there too!!} - Listen to Mr. He's Calendar Ghouls - a podcast hung up on holiday horror xoxo The Future Is FemAnonBy Détroit La Comtesse & A Mr. He Slasher

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S4 Ep9: Julia Cameron: the bestselling author on addiction, creative energy and The Artist's Way 29:08

1+ y ago29:08

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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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S4 Ep8: Michéle Lamy: the subversive style shaman on couture, chaos and Kim Kardashian 26:16

1+ y ago26:16

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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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S4 Ep7: Penny Slinger: the feminist surrealist who was too erotic for the art world 41:01

1+ y ago41:01

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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 34:43

1+ y ago34:43

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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 45:22

1+ y ago45:22

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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 45:38

1+ y ago45:38

45:38

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 30:50

2y ago30:50

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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 32:17

2y ago32:17

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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 Ep1: Angelyne: the magic and mystery of LA's original influencer 37:04

2y ago37:04

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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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S4: The Last Bohemians: LA is almost here! 1:31

2y ago1:31

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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.By House of Hutch

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S4: The Last Bohemians: Los Angeles - Trailer - Launching July 2022 2:32

2y ago2:32

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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 34:10

2y ago34:10

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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 40:59

2y ago40:59

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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 34:35

2y ago34:35

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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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Episode 9: Sweet Sweetback's Baadassss Song 32:16

2+ y ago32:16

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Shawn Strong and Decarius McClearn discuss and review Melvin Van Peebles' third feature, "Sweet Sweetback's Baadassss Song," a 1971 American blaxploitation film written, co-produced, scored, edited, directed by and starring Melvin Van Peebles. His son Mario Van Peebles also appears in a small role, playing the title character as a young boy. The fi…

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Episode 8: Watermelon Man 58:26

3y ago58:26

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Shawn Strong and Decarius McClearn discuss and review Melvin Van Peebles' second feature made in 19070, "Watermelon Man," which is a satirist comedy with racism as the undertones. Starring Godfrey Cambridge and Estelle Parson, the white couple who becomes interracial when Jeff Gerber (Godfrey Cambridge) becomes Black after too much tanning. It's a …

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Episode 7: The Story of A 3-Day Pass 50:06

3y ago50:06

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TGP hosts Shawn Strong and Decarius McClearn talk about and review Melvin Van Peebles directorial debut of 'The Story of A 3-Day Pass.' Filmed in France and with a touch of the French New Wave Style. A black and white film the was more style than story, with racial undertones and other subliminal messaging. We added some of our own voice-overs to s…

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Episode 6: Pre-Blaxploitation Wrap Up 37:34

3y ago37:34

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TGP wraps up the pre-Blaxploitation and talk about the movies we discussed thus fat up to this point. Films include: The Cool World, Black Like Me, The Black Klansman, Klansman, Uptight, Putney Swope, Slaves, Halls of Anger, If He Hollers, Let Him Go!, Change of Mind, Black Angels, and Black Brigade. All from 1964 through 1971. Let's talk about it.…

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Episode 5: Pre-Blaxploitation - Black Bikers From Hell/Black Brigade 1:15:26

3y ago1:15:26

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We discuss and review the pre-Blaxploitation era with the films Black Angels aka Bikers From Hell and Black Brigade aka Carter's Army. Black Angels from Hell was a really bad movie. Period! Black Brigade aka Carter's Army, was a war drama movie made for TV with an all-star cast Starring Richard Pryor, Rosey Grier, Robert Hooks, Billy Dee Williams a…

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Episode 4: Pre-Blaxploitation - If He Hollers, Let Him Go & Change of Mind 1:18:52

3y ago1:18:52

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Episode 4 includes 2 movies starring the great late actor Raymond St. Jacques. If He Hollers, Let Him Go! (1968) An escaped convict James Lake (Raymond St. Jacques) goes to a small town to clear his name. He becomes part of a murder plot in order to pull his plan off. The setup is a fraud! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKC87... Change of Mind (1…

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Episode 3: Halls of Anger (1970) & Slaves (1969) 1:35:11

3y ago1:35:11

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Episode 3, we discuss 2 different but connecting classics. Halls Of Anger (1970), starring Calving Lockhart, directed by Paul Bogart. Slaves (1969), directed by Herbert Biberman, starring Ossie Davis and features the big screen debut of Dionne Warwick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78yA9... Weekly podcast talkshow about the Blaxploitation era of…

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Episode 2: Putney Swope & Uptight 1:09:37

3y ago1:09:37

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Hosts Shawn Strong and Decarius McClearn discuss 2 classics. Putney Swope (1969) written and directed by Robert Downey Sr. starring Arnold Johnson featuring Antonio Fargas. Putney Swope elected advertising executive of a marketing firm who turns the coat on the company. The film satirizes the advertising world, the portrayal of race in Hollywood fi…

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Episode 1: Redux - Pre-Blaxploitation 1:05:55

3y ago1:05:55

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TGP hosts Decarius McClearn and Shawn Strong discuss the times the led up to blaxploitation films. Pre-Blaxploitation. Race relations. 4 Films: 1. The Cool World.(1963) 2. Black Like Me. (1964) 3. The Black Klansman aka I Crossed The Colored Line (1966) 4. The BlacKkKlansman (2018) 5. The Klansman (1974) Weekly podcast talkshow about the Blaxploita…

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S2 Ep8: A Lockdown Special with Marina Abramović 35:55

3y ago35:55

35:55

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 53:29

4y ago53:29

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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 27:11

4y ago27:11

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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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S2 Ep5: Zandra Rhodes: Studio 54, punk and the power of fuchsia with the British style icon 33:16

4y ago33:16

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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 36:40

4y ago36:40

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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 31:51

4y ago31:51

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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 41:51

4y ago41:51

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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 42:42

4y ago42:42

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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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S2: The Last Bohemians – Series Two Trailer – Launching 2 March 2020 2:02

4y ago2:02

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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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🔥DUECE FLAME #headspace🔥 44:04

4y ago44:04

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Burning Sage on 2019, vows for 2020! 53:42

4+ y ago53:42

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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 28:24

5y ago28:24

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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 29:06

5y ago29:06

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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 23:05

5y ago23:05

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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 30:24

5y ago30:24

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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 35:36

5y ago35:36

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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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