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
The Life and Psychedelic Times of the 13th Floor Elevators
*They were psychedelic outlaws holing up in hill country hideouts to escape police harassment, dealing drugs to survive and blasting out a mix of LSD evangelism, mystical philosophy and grooved up roc...
27 Mai 202359min
The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift
*If they were a cult, they were a very British cult. *In the 1920s if you had seen strangely attired groups of people walking in formation along southern England's pagan pathways and round its preh...
14 Mai 20231h 2min
The Secret History of Psychonauts
"You do it to yourself" sang Radiohead Well that was certainly true of some of the subjects of this episode. Historian of the mind MIKE JAY returns to the Bureau to tell of the intrepid scientists, ...
30 Apr 20231h
The Vision Collectors
*Do you believe it's possible to know the future? *Deep in the heart of the countercultural 60s, when the boundaries of consciousness were being explored and pushed forward, when human achievements ...
16 Apr 202357min
Moss Side Story - with Barry Adamson
He was a member of some of the most influential post punk bands: Magazine, The Birthday Party and The Bad Seeds. He's collaborated with a whole range of artists including Nick Cave, Iggy Pop, Diamanda...
1 Apr 20231h 1min
