Podcasts
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 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 and non-binary talents in audio, with photography 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; Season 4 goes to LA with Angelyne, Gloria Hendry, Linda Ramone, Penny Slinger, Johanna Went and more. In 2020, The Last Bohemians published a lockdown special with performance artist Marina Abramović and the series returns in 2025 with the late Nikki Giovanni.
The Last Bohemians has been a podcast of the week in The Guardian, Observer New Review, Financial Times and on BBC Radio 4. It has been featured in The New Yorker, Frieze, Another, Dazed, Refinery29 and many more. The podcast 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.
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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
Series one
Gee Vaucher: the visual artist behind Crass on curiosity, communal living and where punk went wrong
Vivienne Dick: the experimental feminist film-maker digs back into New York's 1970s no wave scene
P.P. Arnold: the soul survivor surveys the Swinging Sixties, sexual revolution and Mick Jagger
Zandra Rhodes: Studio 54, punk and the power of fuchsia with the British style icon
Sue Tilley: the 1980s club kid and artist on Leigh Bowery and modelling for Lucian Freud
Maxine Sanders: the witch queen on casting spells, surviving persecution and the power of sex magic
Series two
Series three
The Last Bohemians: Los Angeles
Angelyne: the magic and mystery of LA's original influencer
Gloria Hendry: the Live and Let Die star on Bond, Playboy Bunnies and the blaxploitation era
Linda Ramone: the NYC punk in LA on love triangles, legacies and keeping rock'n'roll alive
Betye Saar, Alison Saar and Maddy Leeser on creativity, mysticism and motherhood
Lynn Castle: LA's first lady barber on Elvis, the LSD-soaked Sixties and her secret music career
Penny Slinger: the feminist surrealist who was too erotic for the art world
Michéle Lamy: the subversive style shaman on couture, chaos and Kim Kardashian
Julia Cameron: the bestselling author on addiction, creative energy and The Artist's Way
BBC Sounds:
Where It’s At
Eight-episode narrative podcast for BBC Sounds and Radio 1, charting the evolution of the girlband from the 90s to now, featuring interviews with Girls Aloud, Little Mix, Mis-Teeq, Cleopatra, All Saints and Sugababes.