Join author and biographer Tony Peake in conversation with Brian Dillon as he reflects on one of the late twentieth century’s most celebrated cultural figures – the gay rights activist and filmmaker Derek Jarman.

Hear from Peake about his unprecedented access to Jarman’s archives, which cover his experience of post-war Britain and his RAF childhood, to student life at The Slade and his work as a designer, painter and filmmaker.

Peake shares with us the story of a painter and a gardener, of a vivid bohemian existence in the warehouse studios that once lined the Thames. For Peake, Jarman’s story is also one of sexual fear and repression. He examines the devastation of a disease, the inimitable courage and grace in the face of protracted and painful death, and a love as singular as any of the films or the garden which Jarman has left as one of his many legacies.