11/25/2025
“I went to 43 funerals that year. That’s what life was like then.”
Scottish performer Tilda Swinton joined
for BBC Radio 4 Women’s Hour Studio to talk about her new exhibition in Amsterdam.
During their conversation, Tilda spoke about losing one of her close creative collaborators, filmmaker Derek Jarman, to HIV/AIDS in 1994 and how she went to dozens of funerals that year.
She described the new injectable HIV PrEP medication as “game-changing” and emphasized that HIV is no longer the death-sentence it once was.
You can listen to the full interview on