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The Voices of...: Series 4: Stephanie Phillips

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An intimate portrait of Steph Phillips from black feminist punk band Big Joanie.

An intimate portrait of Steph Phillips, a shy girl from Wolverhampton who now fronts black feminist punk band Big Joanie.

Growing up in Wolverhampton, Steph Phillips was a quiet girl, shy to the point of wanting to vanish during social occasions and conscious that as a black teenage female she was, anyway, invisible to most of society.  These days, she's found her voice in a space where she can be what she describes as her "full self'" - she's the guitarist and lead singer with the black feminist punk band Big Joanie.  

In a lineage of music-making with attitude that can be traced back through Riot Grrrl to the original punk icon, the late Poly Styrene of X-Ray Specs, Steph now commands a stage on which issues of identity, of race and gender, of political activism and artistic expression collide in joyful, noisy creativity.

Presented and produced by Alan Hall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

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