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Bowie Five Years On

Bowie: Dancing Out In Space

Duration: 2 hours

First broadcast: on 6 MusicLatest broadcast: on 6 Music

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David Bowie; a thinker, seer and prophet. Throughout his life, Bowie predicted the future. He was a visionary artist whose natural fluidity, curious imagination and disregard for the rigidity of categories enabled him to foretell cultural change. On the fifth anniversary of David Bowie’s death, Stuart Maconie hosts a special show in honour of the future-facing artist to be broadcast simultaneously on BBC Radio 4 and 6 Music. Leading figures from music, literature, philosophy, technology and comedy talk about the impact of Bowie on their lives and how he always managed to be ahead of the curve. In order of appearance they are: Charli XCX, Maggie Aderin-Pocock, Chris Hadfield, Hanif Kureishi, Harris Reed, Christine and the Queens, Grayson Perry, Tony Visconti, Simon Critchley, Deborah Levy, Beth Greenacre, Ron Roy, David Baddiel and Ricky Gervais. Show less

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