This is Penny Rimbaud - Part One
Penny Rimbaud , who has spent more than half a century living the ideals that most of us only talk about, has been described as an activist philosopher, an anarchist, a Zen Buddhist. Though he would l...
29 Loka 20251h
Who Owns The Ground Beneath Our Feet?
We walk the streets every day — and through parks, across squares and pavements and along beaches, and mountains, over 'The Commons' — without much thought for who really owns them. These apparently p...
14 Loka 202559min
Roots, Radical and Rockers - With Billy Bragg
As musician and activist BILLY BRAGG makes a welcome return as a voice of countercultural sanity, we revisit the Lost History of Skiffle as he takes us on an extraordinary whirlwind tour through the m...
3 Loka 202559min
The Dark Counterculture of British Folk Tradition
In the old towns and villages of Britain, before the police, before the tabloids, before social media shame-storms, there were other ways to deal with those who stepped outside the rules. Noisy ways. ...
16 Syys 202557min
Ghost, Trolls and the Hidden Folk
Iceland is one of the last remaining Western countries where a substantial proportion of the population believes in the presence of other beings - The Hidden Folk. For centuries, and until fairly rec...
1 Syys 20251h
EVP - Voices From the Other Side
They called them the voices of the dead. Whispers in the static. Words in the hiss. Messages that—so believers said—slipped through the veil between worlds and onto magnetic tape The story of Electron...
18 Elo 20251h
5000 Years of Queer History
Amongst its pages, there are many familiar names—Oscar Wilde, Quentisn Crisp, Sappho, James Baldwin, Freddie Mercury — but also many we might not expect: Florence Nightingale, Marlene Dietrich, Cary G...
5 Elo 20251h 1min
A Brief History of Nakedness
What does it mean to be naked, in body or in spirit? Why has human nudity so often been revered, feared, sexualized, or weaponised? This episode was recorded on July 17 - International Naked Day. Our...
22 Heinä 20251h 3min
