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Julien Temple

Miranda Sawyer talks to Julien Temple, the multi-award winning film director with a special interest in punk and cult music of the UK.

Julien Temple is a multi-award winning film director with a special interest in punk and cult music of the UK. He is probably best known for immortalising some of the UK's most-loved bands and musicians on screen including the Sex Pistols, David Bowie, the Rolling Stones and Janet Jackson.

Miranda Sawyer speaks to him about his film and video work from writing The Great Rock N Roll Swindle with Malcolm Mclaren, the pressure of directing Absolute Beginners and his subsequent relocation to the US after its lack of commercial success, making videos for Janet Jackson and The Rolling Stones, being commissioned to make films about Glastonbury Festival by Michael Eavis and his recent documentary A Crock Of Gold, about The Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan

1 hour

Last on

Sun 6 Jun 2021 13:00

Music Played

  • Black Arabs

    Black Arabs

  • The Pogues

    The Boys from County Hell

  • Sex Pistols

    I Wanna Be Me

  • Grace Jones

    Nipple To The Bottle

  • David Bowie

    Absolute Beginners

    • EMI.
  • Janet Jackson

    When I Think Of You

    • Janet Jackson - Design Of A Decade.
    • A&M.
    • 7.
  • The Rolling Stones

    Undercover (Of The Night)

    • The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks.
    • Abkco.
  • Orbital

    Impact (The Earth Is Burning)

  • David Bowie

    Memory Of A Free Festival

    • Space Oddity.
    • RCA.
    • 10.

Broadcast

  • Sun 6 Jun 2021 13:00