‘I went to 43 funerals that year’: Tilda Swinton on importance of AIDS awareness

'I went to 43 funerals that year': Tilda Swinton on the importance of AIDS awarenessCredit: BBC Radio 4

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00:00I went to 43 funerals that year and one of them was Derek's in the February but that was what our

00:07life was like then and it bears repeating because I know that there's a younger generation that has

00:12somehow missed out on knowing enough about it. You know we've just heard the news reported that

00:18there's a new approach to the treatment of HIV and it's poignant for us who lived through that

00:24to know that it isn't necessarily a death sentence it was at a certain point and

00:30yeah that that as an as a young person that was a sort of bedrock of a lot of of my creative life.