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19/04/2015

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Derek Jarman's experience confronting HIV and Aids. First broadcast on C4 and BBC Radio 3.

Derek Jarman's experience confronting HIV and Aids. First broadcast on Channel 4 and BBC Radio 3 in 1993. With Tilda Swinton.

"You say to the boy open your eyes. When he opens his eyes and sees the light you make him cry out. Saying O Blue come forth...." 

Blue is Jarman's moving account of his experiences confronting HIV and Aids. 

BBC Radio 3 and Channel 4's unique collaboration was simultaneously broadcast on radio and TV with the voices of John Quentin, Nigel Terry, Derek Jarman and Tilda Swinton.  
 
Music scored by Simon Fisher Turner.  

Producer: Jeremy Howe

Director: David Lewis. 

A Basilisk Production first broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Channel 4 TV in September 1993.

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