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Soho in films from 1948-1963 and the 1970s glamour and porn industry discussed by Matthew Sweet and his guests Jingan Young, Benjamin Halligan and David McGillivray.

Soho in films from 1948-1963 and the 1970s glamour and porn industry discussed by Matthew Sweet and his guests Jingan Young, Benjamin Halligan and David McGillivray.

Producer: Torquil MacLeod

Hotbeds of Licentiousness: The British Glamour Film and the Permissive Society by Benjamin Halligan is out now and so is Soho On Screen: Cinematic Spaces of Bohemia and Cosmopolitanism, 1948-1963 by Jingan Young
David McGillivray is the author of Doing Rude Things: The History of the British Sex Film

You can find a Free Thinking discussion with architects Eric Parry and Alison Brooks, pianist Belle Chen and novelists Fiona Mozley and SI Martin who have set their work in Soho in a programme about Building London /programmes/m000x6kv and

A discussion about Harlots and 18th-century working women with the historians Hallie Rubenhold and Laura Lammasniemi and scriptwriter for the TV series Moira Buffini /programmes/m000rdfz

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44 minutes

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Thu 12 May 2022 22:00

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  • Thu 12 May 2022 22:00

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