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Sing It Pink
by Aunt Nell
In 1983, a cabaret performer named Mark Bunyan decided London's gay music scene was missing a choir. When Mark and a few other singers got together for a first rehearsal, they had no idea that they were creating a hope machine that would sing and dance through some of the greatest challenges in LGBTQ+ history. This is Sing It Pink!, the touching story of the Pink Singers, London and Europe's oldest LGBTQ+ choir, told through the people who sang for freedom. With archive recordings of pivotal rehearsals, touching stories from choir members from over 40 years, and intimate sound design, Sing It Pink! is a landmark documentary series and a piece of essential queer history. Find out more about the Pink Singers here All episodes are CC-BY 4.0. Supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. <h
Episodes
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8 | Homemade Musical Hope Machine
The Pink Singers have reached the crescendo: their 40th anniversary gala performance! In this episode, Ev Callahan, the choir's new artistic director, goes backstage to find the pre-concert nerves on the eve of their birthday gala. Ev also travels back in time to the beginnings of the Pinkies, to...
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7 | Chosen Family
As the Pinkies prepare for their 40th Gala performance, they take the opportunity to look at something the choir has always had in abundance: love. In this episode, Mills Dyer looks at how relationships have formed in the choir and how they’ve created harmonies and the occasional wrong note. From...
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6 | I Am What I Am
Music and song is something that transcends sexuality and gender, but society hasn’t always seen it that way. The Pink Singers are on a mission to change that, but have they always been that way? In this episode, Josi, a Pinkie performance poet who transitioned in their sixties, guides us through...
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5 | Change The World!
From Finnish saunas to the streets of Mumbai, the Pink Singers have gone global. In this episode, Hsien Chew, founder of Proud Voices Asia, takes us on a tour through time and space with the Pink Singers. Taking us back to European choirs rallying behind the Pink Singers as Section 28 came into...
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4 | Fascinating Rhythm
The Pink Singers are the oldest LGBTQ+ choir in Europe (if you’re to believe there’s ever been a heterosexual choir), but what makes up a choir? In this episode, Olivia Doust, a singing teacher by day, Pinkie by night, looks at the music that has made the Pink Singers sing, and how it’s been…
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3 | Leaping Lesbians
As the Pink Singers belt out songs from the roof of Broadcasting House, they make a vital call: We need more lesbians. In this episode, Ali Milton-Doyle, a Pinkie who met their wife in the choir, investigates why it is so hard finding the early women of the Pink Singers, and how the experiences…
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2 | Safer Sex
The Pink Singers are taking off, performing, partying and fighting for LGBTQ+ rights. But soon they are hit by one of the greatest threats to LGBTQ+ people: the AIDS crisis. In this episode, Philip Rescorla, one of the choir’s oldest members, remembers how the choir experienced HIV, through the...
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1 | Homosexual, Homosexual, Lesbian, Lesbian
It’s 1983, and Mark Bunyan is making a splash on the cabaret scene in London. Inspired by gay activist Brian Kennedy, Mark advertises for singers who want to join an LGBTQ+ choir. But it’s a time of homophobia and shame, so will anyone turn up to the first rehearsal? In this episode, Cassian...
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Sing It Pink
In 1983, a cabaret performer named Mark Bunyan decided London's gay music scene was missing a choir. When Mark and a few other singers got together for a first rehearsal, they had no idea that they were creating a hope machine that would sing and dance through some of the greatest challenges in...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
In 1983, a cabaret performer named Mark Bunyan decided London's gay music scene was missing a choir. When Mark and a few other singers got together for a first rehearsal, they had no idea that they were creating a hope machine that would sing and dance through some of the greatest challenges in LGBTQ+ history.
This is Sing It Pink!, the touching story of the Pink Singers, London and Europe's oldest LGBTQ+ choir, told through the people who sang for freedom. With archive recordings of pivotal rehearsals, touching stories from choir members from over 40 years, and intimate sound design, Sing It Pink! is a landmark documentary series and a piece of essential queer history.
Find out more about the Pink Singers here
All episodes are CC-BY 4.0. Supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
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HOSTED BY
Aunt Nell
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In 1983, a cabaret performer named Mark Bunyan decided London's gay music scene was missing a choir. When Mark and a few other singers got together for a first rehearsal, they had no idea that they were creating a hope machine that would sing and dance through some of the greatest challenges in...
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Sing It Pink is created and hosted by Aunt Nell.
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