in India moved her to produce more vibrantly coloured works. In October 2010, her memoirs Welcome to Mollywood were published. In 2010, a portrait of Parkin painted by Darren Coffield was exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, London for the BP Portrait Award. She was a "castaway" on the BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs in May 2011. In May 2012, she was awarded a Civil List Pension by the Queen for her services to the arts. Parkin featured in an episode of Channel 4's Britain's Weirdest Council Houses in February 2016, in which she was filmed in her council flat in a tower block in the World's End Estate at the World's End area of Chelsea. She had moved into the flat in 2002, after she was declared bankrupt following a period of alcoholism. In 2017 Parkin appeared live in a one-woman show at a London salon hosted by Simon Oldfield of Pin Drop Studio. References Further reading Parkin, Molly (17 November 1996). "She Ain't Heavy, She's... the woman who bedded Brando, shared a flat with Monroe, and upstaged Gielgud. She is Shelley Winters, Molly Parkin's new soul sister". The Sunday Telegraph Magazine. pp. 25, 26 External links Molly Parkin's personal website Kim Howells, "Filming Great Lives with Molly Parkin", BBC, Wales Arts, 27 May 2011. 1932 births Living people 20th-century British novelists 20th-century Welsh painters 21st-century Welsh painters 20th-century Welsh women artists 21st-century Welsh women artists Alumni of Goldsmiths, University of London Alumni of the University of Brighton British erotica writers People educated at Willesden County Grammar School People from Pontycymer Welsh journalists Welsh women journalists Welsh women painters