Courtney Love announces new music series with BBC Radio 6 Music and BBC Sounds

25 March 2024, 11:33 | Written by Tyler Damara Kelly

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BBC Radio 6 Music and BBC Sounds have announced Courtney Love’s Women – a candid new music series, in which Courtney Love shares the soundtrack to her life as she reflects on the women in music who have shaped her journey.

Across eight episodes, the founder and lead singer of Hole takes listeners on an intimate and unfiltered, era by era journey through her life and the music that made her, alongside her friend and renowned music-podcaster and writer, Rob Harvilla.

Samantha Moy, Head of BBC Radio 6 Music says: “Courtney Love is an icon and a trailblazer - her influence on music and culture over the decades is undeniable. At 6 Music, we invite artists to share their stories directly with their fans and our listeners and I’m very proud that Courtney will be hosting a series of incredible shows for us in April. Halfway through the series, on Friday 12 April, we’ll celebrate the 30th anniversary of one of Courtney’s most powerful works – Hole’s Live Through This - by dedicating the schedule to her music, the music that influenced her and the artists she’s inspired in Courtney Love Forever.”

📻 @BBC6Music and @BBCSounds present: Courtney Love’s Women

Courtney reflects on the women in music who have shaped her journey, her sound and her next chapter in a candid new music series 🎶

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— BBC Press Office (@bbcpress) March 25, 2024

Throughout the series, Courtney recalls: her formative years, in which she discovered disco through the record collection at a childhood care home; reciting Sylvia Plath poetry for a Mickey Mouse Club audition; her love of Billie Holiday and Nina Simone; her time at an all-girl boarding school in New Zealand and in juvenile detention; couch-surfing across America; her struggles with drug abuse; her acting career – which resulted in a Golden Globe nomination for her role in The People vs. Larry Flynt in 1997; how she attempted to creatively matchmake Stevie Nicks and Billy Corgan; hanging out with Debbie Harry at a Limp Bizkit album launch at the Playboy Mansion; Gwen Stefani; her relationship with Nirvana frontman, Kurt Cobain; taking pandemic guitar lessons with The Big Moon’s Juliet Jackson and much more.

For more information on the full schedule, visit bbc.co.uk/sounds.