16/07/2020
There’s some interesting viewing on BBC-4 television this evening catering both for the light of touch and also the more serious viewer. Kylie Minogue will be performing some of her top tunes in a compilation of her apperances on the legendary Top of the Pops programme, that went out on Thursday evenings on BBC-1 between 1964 and 2004 and charted the changing pop preferences of several generations of young people. Ms Minogue is of course, a firm LGBTQ favourite and has recipcrocated the love shown for her by the community. Someone with somewhat less love amongst LGBTQ people is Germaine Greer, whose 1970 book “The Female Eunuch” took on anti-feminism within leftwing currents that were then dominating the counterculture and high tide of political radicalism. However, as her career progressed, Greer took to bitter rows with other women, insulting them freely and also attacking trans people in particular. Arguably her serious career ended in 2006 when she appeared on Channel Four’s controversial series “Celebrity Big Brother”. Her performance with another transphobic political figure, disgraced former MP and pro-Iranian communist extremist George Galloway, was unsettling and highly repellant to many women, and she is largely considered a has been feminist. Nevertheless, she still has the power to provoke. See what you make in a late night portrait of her.
