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Does punk resonate with classical composer Philip Venables? He joins playwright Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, literary scholar Diarmuid Hester and musician and broadcaster Tom Robinson.

Rebellion and causing offence: Shahidha Bari looks at punk and finds that beyond the filth and the fury of the ‘70s music scene, it provided a new vocabulary for artists that’s shaped the cultural scene to the present day, with photographs of the British punk scene on show, a new documentary coming in the Autumn and the opening of a play this week drawing on the idea of punk. Shahidha's guests are: Morgan Lloyd Malcolm whose drama, opening in Sheffield, features women in a prison becoming inspired by a punk band; Philip Venables, the classical composer of works including 4:48 Psychosis and Denis and Katya; musican and 6 music broadcaster Tom Robinson, and Radio 3 and AHRC New Generation Thinker Diarmuid Hester, author of Wrong, A Critical Biography of Denis Cooper. They look at figures ranging from Rimbaud up to the Slits and Derek Jarman. Plus - as Ru Paul's Drag Show returns to TV, Diarmuid Hester considers an earlier portrayal of queer culture in the paintings of Edward Burra.

Typical Girls - Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's play produced by Sheffield Theatres and Clean Break runs from Sept 24th to October 16th
You can find out more about Philip Venables at https://philipvenables.com/
Diarmuid Hester's website with information about his queer tours of Cambridge and Rye https://www.diarmuidhester.com/
The photographs of Michael Grecco and Kevin Cummins were on show at Photo London.
Rebel Dykes, is a documentary set in 1980s post punk London, directed by Harri Shanahan and Sian A. Williams
Edward Burra's work is on show at the Rye Art Gallery in Burra and Friends (until October 3rd).

Producer: Luke Mulhall

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