Purcell Room

Music is both the soundtrack to popular culture and the essential voice for youthful rebellion and protest. In 1968 Life magazine called rock ‘the first music born in the age of instant communication’ - a lifestyle and attitude which could be syndicated across the globe, from the Philmore East direct ... (more)to the streets of Prague. But did punk in 1976 and acid house in 1986 offer a similarly apocalyptic moment? And did movements further afield, such as tropicalia in Brazil, have an even bigger political impact? Joe Boyd and Miranda Sawyer discuss these issues with chair Robin Denselow, author of When the Music’s Over, a history of political pop.

Elizabeth introduces her new book, The Wisdom of Whores. She is joined by Polly Clayden, co-director of HIV i-base and pioneer of treatment literacy writing, and Corinne Squire, psychologist and author of HIV in South Africa. Together the panel discusses HIV/AIDS and the consequences of wider scientific ... (more)illiteracy within the media and public at large. The event is chaired by Ben Goldacre, renowned author of the Bad Science column in the Guardian.