Archive on 4: When Bailey Met Warhol - BBC Radio 4,10th and 12th October

16th October 2009

Andy Warhol’s friend and muse Jerry Hall interviews photographer David Bailey about his relationship to the pop artist – and tells the story of the infamous television documentary Bailey made about Warhol in 1973 which was temporarily banned in the UK, causing the greatest national public row on art, obscenity and censorship since the publication of ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ and the ‘Oz’ Magazine obscenity trial.  The relationship between Bailey and Warhol is also an encounter of styles: the visual cool of 1960s London meets the irony of the New York Art scene, with Bailey’s East End smarts pitched against Warhol’s elusive musings and those of his Factory acolytes.     

 Presenter: Jerry Hall

Producer: Simon Hollis