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Depicting AIDS in Drama

Arts & Ideas

BBC

Society & Culture

4.2598 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Russell T. Davies is joined by his friend and author of Love from the Pink Palace, Jill Nalder, to discuss their importance in one another’s lives, the role of literature in their lives, and the TV series It’s a Sin with New Generation Thinker and psychiatrist Sabina Dosani and chair Matthew Sweet in a conversation recorded in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature at the British Library.

Producer: Torquil MacLeod

Transcript

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0:00.0

Can I just say?

0:01.5

You're about to listen to a BBC podcast.

0:04.0

It's such a wonderful listen.

0:05.6

So nice.

0:06.5

There are loads more like it on BBC sounds.

0:08.8

Different paces, different heights.

0:10.6

The roof is buckling.

0:11.9

Where you can also listen to live sports commentary.

0:14.2

It's right foot goes for goal.

0:16.7

And then enjoy even more podcasts full of analysis and reaction to the big stories.

0:21.7

The stat that is astonishing is they ended with the lowest amount of possession.

0:25.2

And she's had to live with that.

0:26.8

So if you love sport, a passion, it's almost like a religion.

0:29.7

Listen on BBC Sounds.

0:31.7

Sort of expecting that every week now.

0:35.8

BBC Sounds, music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:39.2

My name is Matthew Sweet and this is the Arts and Ideas podcast.

0:42.9

And for a change, we're not in the studio.

0:45.0

We're at the British Library.

0:47.7

Sorry, it'll be a good one, this, because we're evoking the Pink Palace, a place of refuge

0:53.6

for the characters of Russell T. Davis's

0:56.2

landmark drama. It's a sin, but also the actual flat of his actual friend, Jill Nolda. They're

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