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Stephanie Phillips

Episode 3 of 4

An intimate portrait of Steph Phillips, a shy girl from Wolverhampton who now fronts black feminist punk band Big Joanie.

Growing up in Wolverhampton, Steph Phillips was a quiet girl, shy to the point of wanting to vanish during social occasions and conscious that as a black teenage female she was, anyway, invisible to most of society. These days, she's found her voice in a space where she can be what she describes as her "full self'" - she's the guitarist and lead singer with the black feminist punk band Big Joanie.

In a lineage of music-making with attitude that can be traced back through Riot Grrrl to the original punk icon, the late Poly Styrene of X-Ray Specs, Steph now commands a stage on which issues of identity, of race and gender, of political activism and artistic expression collide in joyful, noisy creativity.

Presented and produced by Alan Hall
A Falling Tree production for 麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 4

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28 minutes

Last on

Wed 15 Apr 2020 23:30

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  • Mon 22 Jul 2019 16:00
  • Wed 15 Apr 2020 23:30

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