{"id":331214,"date":"2025-12-05T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/listening-in-lockdown-the-womens-room\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T11:51:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T11:51:00","slug":"listening-in-lockdown-the-womens-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=331214","title":{"rendered":"Listening in Lockdown | The Womens Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex\">\n<li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"47471\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thewomensroomblog.com\/?attachment_id=47471\" class=\"wp-image-47471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thewomensroomblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1_ZandraRhodes-Credit-Laura-Kelly--650x433.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.thewomensroomblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1_ZandraRhodes-Credit-Laura-Kelly--413x275.jpg 413w, https:\/\/www.thewomensroomblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1_ZandraRhodes-Credit-Laura-Kelly--330x220.jpg 330w, https:\/\/www.thewomensroomblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1_ZandraRhodes-Credit-Laura-Kelly--296x197.jpg 296w, https:\/\/www.thewomensroomblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1_ZandraRhodes-Credit-Laura-Kelly--690x459.jpg 690w, https:\/\/www.thewomensroomblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1_ZandraRhodes-Credit-Laura-Kelly-.jpg 739w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>\u201cMy work ethic is ridiculous. I start work as soon as I get up and I finish work either when I\u2019m about to drop or when I\u2019m going out for dinner. Creative people don\u2019t retire\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sadly I still haven\u2019t been able to start the growing pile of potentially brilliant books beside my bed. Despite having more time than ever to read, I just can\u2019t seem to concentrate, even when I regularly wake at 4am (menopause or lockdown anxiety \u2013 who knows?). The only thing that gets me off to sleep is a podcast \u2013 which is great for getting me back to sleep, but annoying as I always miss the end!<\/p>\n<p>I have been loving <em>The Last Bohemians<\/em> \u2013 which is now in its second season \u2013 a brilliant series that meets older women who have been  influential and often controversial outsiders in arts\u00a0and culture.<\/p>\n<p>Subversive\u00a0musicians, rock\u2019n\u2019roll groupies, groundbreaking artists and game-changing style icons, these women  have lived life on the edge and still refuse to play by the rules. <\/p>\n<p> In series one,\u00a0we met\u00a0British bohemian icon Molly Parkin, artist and musician Cosey Fanni Tutti, countess and LSD campaigner Amanda Feilding, 2-Tone pioneer\u00a0Pauline Black, playwright and personality Bonnie Greer\u00a0 and Pamela Des Barres, who looks back on her life as  groupie through the lens of the #MeToo movement.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex\">\n<li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"47470\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thewomensroomblog.com\/?attachment_id=47470\" class=\"wp-image-47470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thewomensroomblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mollyfinal7-650x433.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.thewomensroomblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mollyfinal7-413x275.jpg 413w, https:\/\/www.thewomensroomblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mollyfinal7-330x220.jpg 330w, https:\/\/www.thewomensroomblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mollyfinal7-296x197.jpg 296w, https:\/\/www.thewomensroomblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mollyfinal7-690x459.jpg 690w, https:\/\/www.thewomensroomblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mollyfinal7.jpg 739w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u200bSeries two features eight episodes, which are being released weekly and so far has included Folk legend Judy Collins, 80, discussing Dylan, hard-drinking\u00a0and\u00a0what motivates her to keep performing, British fashion designer Zandra Rhodes looking back on 50 years of her career;\u00a0P.P. Arnold tells her incredible story of being a soul survivor from the Swinging Sixties, Gee Vaucher of Crass gives us a tour of her radical Essex commune, club kid and Lucian Feud muse, Sue Tilley leads shares memories of nights at the infamous 80s club Taboo with her best mate Leigh Bowery, experimental film-maker Vivienne Dick explains why New York\u2019s 1970s no wave scene was so special, Margaret Busby, the UK\u2019s youngest and first black woman publisher, looks back at her inspiring career; and Maxine Sanders remembers being at the centre of the witchcraft boom in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>Uncompromising and inspiring these women have remained true to their artistic roots \u2013 and are refreshing in their creative approach to growing older.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelastbohemians.co.uk\">The Last Bohemians<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy work ethic is ridiculous. 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