Kate Hutchinson is a journalist, broadcaster and DJ based in London. She is behind the critically-acclaimed, award-winning podcast The Last Bohemians, which has been featured in The New Yorker and won silver at the 2020 British Podcast Awards, as well as 2025’s Studio Radicals, a new audio series about engineers, producers and pioneers. She currently presents a fortnightly morning live music and culture show on Soho Radio and is a regular critic on BBC Radio 6Music’s Roundtable, Monocle on Culture and BBC Radio 4’s Front Row.

Her passion for global music scenes has taken her to Ecuador, Uganda, Morocco, Colombia, Pakistan and beyond. Her stories on emerging sounds and artists have made several front pages of The New York Times, as well as appeared in The Sunday Times, The Wire, i-D, Vice and Mixmag. She is a regular contributor to the Guardian – where she was the Deputy Editor of the hugely influential entertainment magazine Guardian Guide from 2013-2017 – and Observer New Review, where she wrote the 2018 cover story on the stars of UK jazz, one of many pieces she has written on the scene.

Much of Kate’s approach to curation and storytelling owes to her interest in maverick women in the arts. In 2019, she launched the award-winning, proudly independent audio series The Last Bohemians, which was described by American music critic Jessica Hopper as “a singular feminist work of our time”. Now in its fifth series, the podcast profiles artists like Marina Abramovic, Maggi Hambling, Betye Saar, Pauline Black and Cosey Fanni Tutti. The Last Bohemians was also a finalist at the Audio Production Awards 2021, with the critic Miranda Sawyer writing: “run to this podcast right now”.

As a broadcaster, Kate has hosted regular shows on Worldwide FM, NTS, Beats 1, Boiler Room, Resonance and Soho Radio, with guests including Neneh Cherry, Stewart Lee, Rahim Redcar (fka Christine and the Queens), the late Andrew Weatherall, Floating Points, Anoushka Shankar, Arooj Aftab, Yaeji, Seun Kuti and more. Her favourite WWFM broadcast remains the female pioneers of pirate radio for International Women’s Day.

Off the airwaves and in the clubs, Kate has spun at festivals from Glastonbury, We Out Here and Lost Village festival, where she is a resident, to Lake of Stars in Malawi, and from Studio Lam in Bangkok to Lisbon’s Spiritland and an Oxfam shop in east London with Fatboy Slim. In 2020, she added her living room to that list by hosting and DJing a Boiler Room lockdown session.

Kate Hutchinson speaks regularly at festivals and events and has hosted talks over the years with musicians including Annie Lennox, Haim, Honey Dijon and Kelis, as well as the 2022 Dice Live Award (winner: Self Esteem) and the Oram Awards, honouring women and non-binary composers. She has led Q&As at internationally renowned events such as GQ Heroes, South By SouthWest, Sonar, IMS and Lost Village, for which she has also curated the talks tent several years in a row, bringing aboard guest speakers including The Blessed Madonna, Nihal Arthanayake, Jordan Stephens and Coco Khan.

At Chelsea Arts Festival, Kate will be hosting a conversation with Zandra Rhodes and Daniel Lismore on fashion and self-expression.