The Soho Bibles: The Secret Porn of Post-War London
*Under the counter-culture.. *They were handmade illegal obscene books, a little like early punk zines, typewritten mimeographed manuscripts with two or three pornographic stories or a novella....
18 Sep 202359min
How to Expand Your Consciousness Part 1: Philosophy
Philosophy as Counterculture? *For thousands of years, humans have been trying to expand this mysterious thing called consciousness, not only by drugs, dancing, art and spiritual practice but ...
3 Sep 202352min
The Music of the Cults
*Their number encompasses the darkest bogeymen of countercultural nightmares- including Charles Manson, Jim Jones, David Koresh and the Reverend Moon -as well as saintly figures devoted to the good of...
20 Aug 20231h
Rock, Radicals and Racism
*Roger Huddle is a born and bred Londoner, a working class music-mad mod who grew up in the 50s, got radicalised in the 60s and became a co-founder of one the most successful activist groups of the 70...
6 Aug 202359min
So You Say You Want a (Sexual) Revolution?
The pill, Profumo, pornography. Love, liberation and libido. Larkin, Lady Chatterley, Lolita, *No era in recent history has been both more celebrated and more vilified than the 1960s. *For some ...
23 Jul 202357min
Knocking On Heaven’s Door
*As the 60s turned into the 70s, and as some of the technicolour idealistic visions of the first summer of love started to fade, many of the denizens of those decades began to seek Utopia outside the ...
9 Jul 202357min
A Short History of The Pagan
*'This is the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius' claimed the first song in the hippie musical Hair in 1967. And perhaps it was. *As thousands gathered at Stonehenge to welcome the summer solstice sunr...
25 Jun 20231h
The ’4000 Year Old Rock ’n’ Roll Band’
*In a remote village in the Ahl Srif tribal area of Northern Morocco, dwell a collective of Sufi musicians. They play a form of trance music which is used for healing. Timothy Leary called them The 4...
11 Jun 202350min
