Girls Will Be Girls
Miranda Sawyer meets some of the key female figures of the punk era to look at how they radically changed the cultural landscape and inspired a generation of young women.
At the height of the punk explosion almost 40 years ago, a handful of women completely redefined what a woman in music could do. Through sheer talent and lack of fear, they pushed themselves on to a male-dominated music scene and became part of a movement that radically changed the cultural landscape.
Along with Siouxsie Sioux, Poly Styrene and Chrissie Hynde, the Slits were among punk's most important figures and their guitarist Viv Albertineβs memoir, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys, chronicles life as part of this revolutionary vanguard.
Miranda Sawyer meets up with Viv Albertine and some of the other key female figures of the era, including Chrissie Hynde, The Raincoats, and punk anti-heroine Jordan, to look at how they inspired a generation of young women with the notion that anyone could do anything if they wanted to. And she explores whether the punk spirit still survives today.
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Girls will be Girls
Duration: 02:06
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Jordan, Punkβs Anti-heroine
Duration: 01:34
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Confessions of MILF by Viv Albertine
Duration: 01:35
Music Played
Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
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The Slits
Shoplifting
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The Slits
I Heard it Through the Grapevine
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The Avengers
We Are the One
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Bags
Survive
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The Slits
Vindictive
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Siouxsie and the Banshees
Make up to Break up
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Sex Pistols
God Save The Queen
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The Slits
Typical Girls
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XβRay Spex
Identity
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Pretenders
The Wait
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The Damned
New Rose
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XβRay Spex
Oh Bondage Up Yours
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The Slits
Spend Spend Spend
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The Clash
White Riot
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The Slits
Newtown
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Little Mix
Salute
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Penetration
Duty Free Technology
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The Slits
FM
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Chrissie Hynde
You or No One
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The Raincoats
Fairytale in the Supermarket
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Viv Albertine
Confessions of a Milf
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00:10The Slits
Typical Girls
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00:14The Damned
New Rose
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00:18XβRay Spex
Oh Bondage Up Yours
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
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| Presenter | Miranda Sawyer |
| Participant | Viv Albertine |
| Participant | Chrissie Hynde |
| Participant | The Raincoats |
| Participant | Jordan |
| Director | Martina Hall |
| Series Editor | Janet Lee |
Broadcasts
Tue 1 Jul 2014 22:00ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Two except Northern Ireland- Tue 1 Jul 2014 23:50ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Two Northern Ireland
- Wed 20 Jun 2018 23:30
- Tue 23 Oct 2018 02:15
- Sat 9 Mar 2019 00:30
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