Pushkin culture is moving fast, but its foundations are deep. I believe that to understand today, you need to understand the icons who built it. I'm Kyrie and.
I'm a Manuel Jochi, and we're super excited to bring you big lives from BBC Studios and Pushkin Industries.
Each week, we take one cultural icon and dive into the BBC's century deep vault of interviews, performances and forgotten tapes to rediscover the legends buried beneath the headlines.
We're talking legends like Jane Fonda.
Well, it's changing the system from the ground up. Is revolutionary. And then I'm revolutionary to.
Muhammad Ali, I'm not just a box so I'm Edger Katie.
I can talk all week on millions of subjects to Amy Winehouse and we.
Want to go on stage.
I like to stress as slutty as possible because it makes me dance. But for some reason, to George, there's someone standing there waving their genitals out.
You don't think that they're an officer of the law. These icons are folks who too often become memes, punchlines, or a single photo that can't unsee.
We go through over one hundred years of archive tape for the BBC to put the nuance back in. The contradictions, the jokes, the mistakes, the surprising bits, the gut lost and.
The archive transports us. It keeps proving that these icons that we flattened into one liners, but they actually live these big, chaotic, brilliant lives.
It's like a vicious circle. They love you, then they hate you, then they feel sorry for you said I love you again. Join us and learn how each legend sets the stage for today's culture.
Big Lives begins on March twenty third and releases a new episode every Monday. You can subscribe to Pushkin Plus to listen to Big Lives ad free, and as a Pushkin Plus describer, you actually also get bonus episodes for audio books and binge's from other pushkin hosts.
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