BBC Radio 3 is representing documentary on 1960s spy TV series "The Avengers" in remembrance of actor Patrick Macnee (a.k.a. John Steed), who died this week:
Matthew Sweet dons his kinky boots to investigate the phenomenon of
The Avengers, 50 years after its first transmission. As well as its
regular cavalcade of cyborgs, spies and megalomaniacs, The Avengers
seemed to present
the world of British television with a new action figure - the liberated
single female who, week after week, proved to be deadlier than the
male. But how progressive was its sexual politics ? Was Diana Rigg in
her all leather cat suit a male fantasy or a feminist icon and did Honor
Blackman always play second fiddle to Patrick Macnee ?
Matthew
has assembled a crack team of thinkers to ponder these mind-bending
questions - teenage fans Bea Campbell and Sarah Dunant, historian
Dominic Sandbrook and one of the masterminds of The Avengers, the
screenwriter Brian Clemens.
Stream it
here.
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