b"Francis Bacon was an artist whose radical generosity teetered on the edge of self-obliteration \\u2013\\u2013 and he sometimes pulled others over the edge with him. Many of our listeners will be familiar with Bacon\\u2019s work, or at least would recognise his idiosyncratic style if they saw it; sweeps of fleshy paint across black fields of colour, portraying contorted, mangled bodies, racks of hanging meat, and the iconic screaming mouth. But Bacon is almost as famous for the way he lived his life: his raucous partying, brutal barbed tongue, and love of boozing made him an emblem of London\\u2019s bohemian Soho scene. What linked his work and his life was an obsession with violence, something that he knew intimately.\\xa0\\n----more----\\nDaniel Farson, The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon (New York: Pantheon Books, 1993)\\nJohn Maybury et al., Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon, Biography, Drama, Romance (BBC Films, British Film Institute (BFI), Arts Council of England, 1998)\\nMichael Peppiatt, Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma\\xa0(Abingdon-on-Thames: Routledge, 2019)\\nRichard Curson Smith et al., Francis Bacon: A Brush with Violence, Documentary, Biography (IWC Media, 2017)\\nDavid Sylvester, Interviews with Francis Bacon, Third edition (New York, NY: Thames & Hudson, 2016).\\nOur intro music is Arpeggia Colorix by Yann Terrien, downloaded from WFMU's Free Music Archive and distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Our outro music is by DJ Michaeloswell Graphicsdesigner."