主播大秀

Radio 1

Radio 1 will be exploring the importance of coming-out videos for the LGBTQ community, and more widely about how technology has affected coming out over the 50 years since decriminalisation. There will be two versions of the documentary, one that be broadcast on Radio 1 and a filmed version for

Radio 2

To mark the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act of 1967, 主播大秀 Radio 2 broadcasts a two-part series telling the remarkable story of how gay people came to transform pop culture in the face of persistent oppression. Actor Andrew Scott explores the last five decades of British history through gay culture and its sizable impact on the story of popular music.

The series explores the riotous dancing that gripped the nation when disco hit in the 1970s, and the horror of the AIDS crisis which threatened to tear the gay scene apart in the 1980s. The programmes will examine the rise of New Wave and the New Romantics in the 80s - genres which eschewed traditional masculinity, favouring a heavily made-up look and outrageous outfits that drew on the aesthetics of gay culture. It also highlights the straight acts who dabbled with a gay identity, and out and proud LGBTQ performers who utilised their sexuality to push boundaries, defining the sound of their generation (26 July and 2 August).

Also on Radio 2, will be a celebratory Saturday night concert live from Hull, UK City of Culture 2017, featuring major pop artists performing classic hits from across the decades (29 July). Sara Cox presents a Sounds of the 80s special on 主播大秀 Red Button which will feature the music of key artists from that decade, including Bronski Beat, Diana Ross, Soft Cell, Erasure, Culture Club and many more (21 July), and it will be reflected in the Radio 2 Arts Show with Jonathan Ross (27 July).

Man In An Orange Shirt (2 x 60)

6 Music

主播大秀 Radio 6 Music takes a look at how the change in the law has influenced so many aspects of our culture. From its impact on music, fashion and art, the world has become a more colourful place. Presenters Tom Robinson and Amy Lamé investigate the impact it has had on society (29 July).

Radio 4

Queer Icons (w/t)
Front Row is marking the 50th anniversary of the decriminalisation with a landmark project, Queer Icons. 50 leading figures will choose an LGBTQ artwork that is special to them.

From the ancient Greek poetry of Sappho to the Oscar-winning film Moonlight, from the music of George Michael to the plays of Oscar Wilde, they will explore the works of art throughout history that have expressed what it is to be gay or queer. These short pieces will be broadcast on Front Row and on other Radio 4 programmes in July, and will be collected together online.

Queer Britain (w/t)
Val McDermid presents the story of British homosexuality running up to the landmark Sexual Offences Act of 1967. Using ground-breaking work from a new wave of young historians, this series brings a new perspective to the history of homosexuality, exploring the many ways that the LGBTQ community was accepted, tolerated, despised and ostracised, and how this was reflected across culture, society and politics.

Public Indecency
Actor Simon Callow will present Public Indecency, a history of queer art in Britain, in association with Tate Britain. (Pictured here with Oscar Wilde’s grandson Merlin Holland. Image Credit: Max O’Brien.)

Coming Out From The Shadows
On the 50th Anniversary of the ground breaking 1967 Sexual Offences Act, the campaigner Peter Tatchell takes a sceptical look at its impact on Britain’s gay communities. Although it was a major staging post in the long and tortuous fight for the decriminalisation of male homosexual behaviour in Britain, Peter will show that in the years immediately were far from friendly towards homosexuality: for example, convictions of men for same-sex offences increased dramatically.

Peter will go on to examine discrimination against homosexuals in areas such as employment and housing in the 1970s; and he revisits the fierce battles in the 1990s for the reduction of the age of consent for homosexuals from 21 to 16. Drawing on extensive archive from the last fifty years, Peter will chronicle the continuing struggle for equal rights for Britain’s LGBTQ communities - a story that takes us right up to 2017.

Radio 4 Extra

Young journalist / presenter Ben Hunte curates a collection of LGBTQ-influenced comedy and drama across the past 50 years, to explore the LGBTQ story he is drawn by.

Programme suggestions are also being actively sought from listeners to 主播大秀 Radio 4 Extra.

Radio 3

Radio 3 will broadcast two dramas: Victim traces the bravery and pragmatism behind the development of the eponymous 1961 British film, which was the first to seriously address homosexuality. The film was written by a woman (Janet Green), made by refugees from Ealing Studios and starred matinee idol Dirk Bogarde in the gamble of his career. It is often credited with helping to break the taboo and change public attitudes to the law.

Crimes Of Passion, a double-bill of Joe Orton plays (The Erpingham Camp and The Ruffian On The Stair) will be recorded in front of an audience in the Radio Theatre to mark the 50th anniversary of Orton’s death.

In the Radio 3 Essay series The Love That Wrote Its Name, five writers will give personal tributes to five iconic gay relationships, from Alexander and Hephaisteon to Greta Garbo and Mercedes de Acosta, whose love, lust, triumph and tragedy have inspired them and their work. Whether forged in adversity or celebrated openly, this series explores the many types of gay love, from the ancient world to modernity.

A Radio 3 Sunday Feature programme, Literary Pursuits: Maurice, sees Sarah Dillon charting the history and clandestine writing of EM Forster’s posthumously published tale of same-sex love. Written in a white heat in 1913/14, rumours of the novel’s existence took on mythic proportions over the following 57 years, but it remained hidden from public view. Forster showed it to a select few, including Lytton Strachey and Christopher Isherwood, and only agreed to a posthumous US publication in the late 1950s. The manuscript then began an extraordinary and secret journey from England to LA.

World Service

主播大秀 World Service will also mark the anniversary with a range of programmes looking at current attitudes to sexuality and exploring how what happened in Britain 50 years ago wasn’t followed by large parts of the Commonwealth.

There will also be a debate on what makes a society change its beliefs and laws.

Imagine… Mapplethorpe: Look At The Pictures (1 x 105)

An unflinching and uncompromising portrait of one of the 20th century’s most controversial photographers, Robert Mapplethorpe, directed by Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey.

Mapplethorpe's images elevated photography to fine art and pushed social boundaries to create a body of work which includes frank depictions of nudity, sexuality and fetishism as well as still lives and flowers - but was not without controversy.

His iconic and unmistakable photographs of 1970s New York’s underground gay scene were frank and unmediated depictions of a lifestyle at the time deplored by many Americans. In 1989, on the floor of Congress, Senator Jesse Helms implored America to "look at the pictures," while denouncing Mapplethorpe’s art.

Since his death in 1989 from Aids, Mapplethorpe’s work has remained as provocative as ever. Look At The Pictures delves deeply into Mapplethorpe’s life and work to reveal the man and images which ignited a culture war that rages to this day.

Related 主播大秀 Links