Screening date of 3rd March on BBC4 confirmed for Pauline Boty documentary!

The first screening on TV of BOTY: I am the Sixties, the new documentary film from Mono Media Films and Channel X, has been confirmed as 10:00pm on BBC4 on Monday 3rd March, then available on iPlayer.

Further info here from its creators: “The first TV documentary of the Pop Art sensation Pauline Boty; Boty: I Am The Sixties tracks the artist’s original contribution to British art, her feminism and unique take on the nascent celebrity culture of the 1960’s. Ahead of her time in so many ways, Boty’s story ends with her tragic early death at 28 in 1966 and the subsequent revival of interest in her work in the last decade.

Packed full of original photographs and art work, this 60 minute film calls on an array of family, friends, art critics and famous fans to lead us through the Boty story. Contributors include Pop Art titan Sir Peter Blake, comedian and artist Jim Moir, critic Kate Bryan, best friend and Print Designer Natalie Gibson MBE, Celia Birtwell CBE, musicians Corrine Drewery and Tanita Tikaram and TV presenter Ronnie Archer Morgan amongst many other notable friends and fans of the British female Pop Art pioneer Pauline Boty.

A Mono Media Films and Channel X Production; Boty: I Am The Sixties is Directed by Lee Cogswell, Written and produced by Vinny Rawding and Mark Baxter, Executive Producers are: Alan Marke, Jim Reid, Natalie Gibson MBE, Executive Producer for the BBC is Mark Bell.”

The BBC’s page for the programme is here: [link]