Women, Sex, Counterculture
The Sexual Revolution? Yes. Liberation? Maybe. Penis Envy? NO! *Youth culture in the sixties was progressive in so many ways but when it came to the relations between the sexes, it was perhaps much ...
20 Kesä 202259min
City of the Beast: Aleister Crowley’s London
*We take a creep through dimly lit London streets populated with prostitutes, bohemians, charlatans, junkies, spiritualists, drunkards and lost souls following magician, author, occultist and drug fie...
5 Kesä 202257min
On the Farm with Allen Ginsberg
*In 1969, the poet, Beat generation godfather, countercultural guru and political activist ALLEN GINSBERG bought a farm in upstate New York to provide a creative hub and rehab refuge for his friends -...
23 Touko 20221h
Albion Dreaming - A Brief Trip Through the History of British LSD
*Experimental treatment of the insane, secret tests by MI5 with volunteers thinking they were helping find a cure for the common cold, Cold War weapon research by the Ministry of defence on unsuspecti...
9 Touko 20221h
On the Road ... with Johnny Marr
* From Colin Wilson to Tony Wilson, Patti Smith to Mark E Smith, what was it like coming of age in the counterculture of Manchester in the 60s, 70s and 80s? * Johnny Marr has just released his late...
24 Huhti 20221h 5min
The Life and Times of Dubmeister Dennis Bovell
* He stepped off a plane from Barbados onto a wet and windy runway at Heathrow airport in 1965 aged 12. * Now he’s a DJ, multi-instrumentalist and producer of hundreds of records spanning reggae, lo...
11 Huhti 20221h 1min
The Exploding Galaxy
* In 1967 and and 1968, an ordinary north London house contained an Exploding Galaxy - a psychedelic commune and carnival of theatrical performers, artists and performance poets bent on transforming t...
28 Maalis 20221h
A Countercultural History of Camden Town
* Withnail and I, Poets, Spiritualists, Irish, Spanish and Hugenot immigrants, Serial Killers, Artists, Railway workers, William Blake, Rimbaud and Verlaine, Walter Sickert, Sex, Drugs, Rock’n’Roll, M...
13 Maalis 202259min
