# Derek Jarman

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Free Thinking - Derek Jarman

The actor Simon Russell Beale discusses playing the role of King Lear. Derek Jarman is the subject of a season at the BFI and an exhibition Pandemonium - at the Cultural Institute at King's College London. Composer Simon Fisher Turner, artist Tacita Dean, writer Jon Savage and Director of Film at t…

Movies are Gay 4: Caravaggio (1986)

WE’RE BACK AT IT WITH A CLASSIC THEME AND A CLASSIC FORMAT! We had zero time in June to record anything for this year’s “Movies Are Gay” theme so by popular demand we’ve decided to expand Pride Month into July as well. We took a poll and it came back 100%. It’s finally time for MOVIES ARE GAY 4: GA…

From the Archive: Microclimate

Kathy Clugston delves into the GQT archive to explore one of Britain’s most intriguing gardening phenomena: microclimates. Travelling across the British Isles, the programme uncovers how local conditions shape what gardeners can grow. We’ll hear stories from the subtropical gardens of Cornwall an…

Exploring the Magickal History of Coil (Part 2) w/ P6 from OMO, Desalvo, Stretchheads and Security

Last time we admitted defeat in our attempts try to summarise a fifty-plus album discography. This time our play P6 turns up with an actual diagram (which you can see right here) and we spend an hour and a half trying to work out whether that's a genuinely useful map or just a very elegant way of s…

“Queer Edward”, interview with director Theo Rollason and film advisor Peter Tatchell

Presented out of competition in the Open section of the 83rd Venice International Film Festival, Queer Edward II is set in the spring of 1991, as queer life in Britain faces renewed attack and filmmaker Derek Jarman adapts Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II into a radical protest film. Built from neve…

Episode #30 Weaving Connections with Artist Jez Dolan

Hello and welcome to the grateful web art podcast with me Dr Jo Clements. Today I’m really pleased to be joined by artist Jez Dolan Jez is an artist living and working here in Manchester, and his practice explores the intersections between queerness, sexuality, identity and memory. He works across …

Jon Savage loathed the 1976 singles chart so he’s made an album of should-have-been hits

Jon Savage detested the UK’s mid-‘70s hits with a vengeance, “records so bad they made you want to strangle every deejay on Radio One, especially Dave Lee Travis”. Which is why he’s compiled ‘Jon Savage’s 1976: Something Was Going To Happen’, 24 ground-breaking tracks released the same year that pa…

Jon Savage loathed the 1976 singles chart so he’s made an album of should-have-been hits

Jon Savage detested the UK’s mid-‘70s hits with a vengeance, “records so bad they made you want to strangle every deejay on Radio One, especially Dave Lee Travis”. Which is why he’s compiled ‘Jon Savage’s 1976: Something Was Going To Happen’, 24 ground-breaking tracks released the same year that pa…

Horticulture Has a Voice. Are We Using It?

The horticulture industry is facing huge challenges - from labour shortages and regulation to an ageing workforce and a declining number of commercial nurseries. But what happens when the industry faces those challenges together? Sarah Want is joined by Derek Jarman, Chairman of the British Ornam…

Episode 311: Mark Farrelly on Quentin Crisp head of Three Creative Legends: One Actor. Penge, 10-14 November

Darren Weale talks with actor, writer, and producer Mark Farrelly, who appears at the Bridge House Theatre in Penge between 10th and 14th November in a series of shows dubbed 'Three Creative Legends: One Actor' with nights devoted to Quentin Crisp, Derek Jarman, and Patrick Hamilton. Here, Mark tal…