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1 online resource (streaming video file) (58 min. 14 sec.) ; 352435942 bytes |
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*Nudity and Sexual References*The 'Gang of Four' are at their peak. It's 1970, and Hughes, a psychedelic art pundit and lecturer, gets a phone call from New York. Time Magazine is offering him a job. He moves there to become one of the greatest art critics ever. The Female Eunuch is published to critical acclaim, and Germaine finds herself staring down the personification of the masculine elite, Norman Mailer. But she confides in Howard that the success of The Female Eunuch was not the book but 'the moment'. Barry was on a 'slower boil', appearing on stage, forgetting which stage, and generally getting drunk. He was in part saved by Bruce Beresford and Phillip Adams, who convinced him to make a movie out of his comic character Barry McKenzie. Clive was in Cambridge acting and writing and getting breaks in Fleet Street - it wasn't just his content that cut through, it was his prolific output. Soon, he was 'a junior member of the London literati'. The 70s saw them 'coruscate on the page', says Howard. In the 1980s their medium was television - Hughes made The Shock of the New; Clive hosted a show on BBC and ITV for the best part of 20 years; Germaine was every network's go-to intellectual and Barry's Dame Edna was transformed from a housewife into a superstar. Nostalgia was never far from their minds, and the written word was the way each expressed it: Unreliable Memoirs, My Life as Me, Daddy We Hardly Knew You and The Fatal Shore. The relationships each has with their mother country was never far from the core.PRODUCTION DETAILS:Executive Producers: Margie Bryant and Adam Kay; Producer: Dan Goldberg, Director: Paul Clarke |
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Broadcast 2014-09-23 at 20:30:00 |
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Classification: M |
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James, Clive, 1939-.
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Greer, Germaine, 1939-.
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Authors -- Biography.
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Satirists.
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Humphries, Barry, 1934-.
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Hughes, Robert, 1938-2012.
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Australia.
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United Kingdom.
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Streaming video
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Clarke, Paul, director
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Jacobson, Howard, host
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Adams, Phillip, contributor
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Alexander, John, contributor
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Amis, Martin, contributor
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Beresford, Bruce, contributor
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Carter, Graydon, contributor
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Ceballos, Jacqueline, contributor
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Greer, Germaine, contributor
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Griffiths, Rachel, contributor
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Humphries, Barry, contributor
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James, Clive, contributor
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Lette, Kathy, contributor
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Parkinson, Michael, contributor
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Porterfield, Christopher, contributor
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Rose, Barbara, contributor
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Schama, Simon, contributor
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