The Mirror Steamed Over Love and Pop in London, AR As read on BBC Radio

As read on BBC Radio Four

In this new collection

Edited by the exhibitions's co-curators Frances Morris and Tiffany Bell

author of The London Compendium

an antidote to a frightening political time

The Mirror Steamed Over Love and Pop in London, AR As read on BBC RadioIn the early sixties at the Royal College of Art in London, three extraordinary personalities collided to reshape contemporary art and literature. Barrie Bates (who would become Billy Apple in November 1962) was an ambitious young graphic designer from New Zealand, who transformed himself into one of pop arts pioneers. At the same time, his friend and fellow student David Hockneyyoung, Northern, and openly gaywas making his own waves in the London art