The Last Bohemians

The Last Bohemians

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 rising women in audio, with portraits by Laura Kelly. Season 1 features Molly Parkin, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Pauline Black and more; Season 2 stars Judy Collins, Gee Vaucher, Zandra Rhodes and P.P. Arnold; Season 3 is with Maggi Hambling, Cleo Sylvestre and Dana Gillespie. In 2020, The Last Bohemians published a lockdown special with performance artist Marina Abramović and in 2022, went to Los Angeles for a special LA series. The Last Bohemians has been a podcast of the week in the Guardian, Observer New Review, The Financial Times and on Radio 4. In January 2022, it was featured in the New Yorker. It won silver for Best New Podcast at the British Podcast Awards 2020 and was a finalist for the Grassroots Production Award at the 2021 Audio Production Awards. For bonus content and more: http://www.patreon.co.uk/thelastbohemians http://www.thelastbohemians.co.uk http://www.instagram.com/thelastbohospod PRAISE FOR THE LAST BOHEMIANS “This series is a delight… Run to this podcast right now” The Observer "Unusually intimate portraits of spectacular lives… Buoyed by exquisite production, these conversations are atmospheric, contemplative and fabulously candid" Financial Times "A beautifully intimate set of portraits made by an all-female audio team – what more could you ask for to celebrate International Women’s Day?" The Guardian Feisty, heartfelt and bursting with wisdom" NME "A rhapsodic, necessary retelling of trailblazer stories" Dazed

Episodes

S1: The Last Bohemians - Trailer - Launching 4 March 2019

February 19, 2019 • 1 min
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 rules
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S1 Ep1: Molly Parkin: the grand dame of British bohemia on Soho's glory days, Louis Armstrong and self love

March 4, 2019 • 26 mins
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 kaleidoscopic apartment filled with her art and clothing.

In this candid –...
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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

March 4, 2019 • 35 mins
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 1970s New York of Basquiat and Warhol shaped her an an artist, as well ...
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S1 Ep3: Amanda Feilding: beat poets, psychedelics and self-trepanation with the leading LSD campaigner and countess

March 4, 2019 • 30 mins
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 the medical benefits of psychedelics and mind-altering substances.
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S1 Ep4: Pauline Black: the original rude girl on female empowerment, intersectionality and being a music trailblazer

March 4, 2019 • 23 mins
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 Pauline is a style icon and a cultural force, with her signature fedora, Do...
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S1 Ep5: Cosey Fanni Tutti: sex, subversion and class with the artist and industrial music pioneer

March 4, 2019 • 29 mins
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 lines between performance art, sex and subversion. Once considered shocking, he...
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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

March 4, 2019 • 28 mins
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 the waves of feminism that have come since, however, Pame...
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S2: The Last Bohemians – Series Two Trailer – Launching 2 March 2020

February 27, 2020 • 2 mins
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 Margaret Busby.

Each episode will be released weekly and the portraits by ...
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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

March 2, 2020 • 42 mins
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’s tracks, with an eclecticism that comes from her father,...
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S2 Ep2: Gee Vaucher: the visual artist behind Crass on curiosity, communal living and where punk went wrong

March 9, 2020 • 41 mins
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 illustrator for The New York Times and she’s also designed...
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S2 Ep3: Vivienne Dick: the experimental feminist film-maker digs back into New York's 1970s no wave scene

March 16, 2020 • 31 mins
"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 Basquiat, photographer Nan Goldin and musicians Sonic Youth and Debbie Ha...
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S2 Ep4: P.P. Arnold: the soul survivor surveys the Swinging Sixties, sexual revolution and Mick Jagger

March 23, 2020 • 36 mins
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 Jimi Hendrix, had a sexual awakening among the rockst...
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S2 Ep5: Zandra Rhodes: Studio 54, punk and the power of fuchsia with the British style icon

March 30, 2020 • 33 mins
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 safety pins and was dubbed the Princess of Punk, a name that matched her trademark f...
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S2 Ep6: Sue Tilley: the 1980s club kid and artist on Leigh Bowery and modelling for Lucian Freud

April 6, 2020 • 27 mins
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 became known for his shocking stage shows and about whom she...
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S2 Ep7: Maxine Sanders: the witch queen on casting spells, surviving persecution and the power of sex magic

April 13, 2020 • 53 mins
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 recreate their dramatic rituals…

It was the era when Flower...
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S2 Ep8: A Lockdown Special with Marina Abramović

March 8, 2021 • 35 mins
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.

Her early work in the 1970s is famed for its extremi...
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S3 Ep1: Maggi Hambling: the great British artist on controversy, criticism and being a queer icon at 76

March 8, 2022 • 34 mins
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 English coast, near where she grew up, her Oscar Wilde bench in London and most ...
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S3 Ep2: Dana Gillespie: the Swinging Sixties wild child on sex, spirituality and Ziggy Stardust

March 17, 2022 • 40 mins
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 of the tabloids with Bob Dylan as a teenage girl. She has recorded with Elton Jo...
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S3 Ep3: Cleo Sylvestre: the veteran actor on resilience, rejection, the Rolling Stones and representing the working class

March 23, 2022 • 34 mins
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 called her “the Black actor who should have been one of Britain’s biggest stars”...
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S4: The Last Bohemians: Los Angeles - Trailer - Launching July 2022

June 15, 2022 • 2 mins
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 musician – and LA's first female barber – Lynn Castle and Bond girl Gloria Hend...
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