Rubin and The Yippies
In 1964 he was a working class hippie student crossing Haight Street, a road in San Francscso, when hit by a vision - and life as he knew it was over In 1994, he was a multi-millionaire new-age entre...
17 Aug 20241h 5min
The Strange and Beautiful World of Arthur Russell
When musician ARTHUR RUSSELL died in 1992, at age 40, of complications related to HIV-AIDS, he was an obscure figure — though a legend in the 70s and 80s underground music scenes at downtown New York ...
7 Aug 202457min
Forward the Revolution - with Spiral Tribe
They helped inspire a whole generation of young ravers and lit the fuse for what was to blow up with Technival and Burning Man - as well as more mainstream festivals across Europe and the US - but the...
28 Jul 20241h 4min
Dreaming of Ancient Gods
*Whatever happened to the Greek Gods? if you are a teenager living half way up a 1970s tower block listening to Drill, should you even care? *On this epside we travel in time and space to Ancient Gree...
10 Jul 202459min
The Queer Life of Pop - with Jon Savage
How Queer Culture Shaped Pop Culture "The 1972 version of David Bowie didn’t spring from nowhere. Although he refused to affiliate himself explicitly with gay liberation, he had found both artistic a...
26 Jun 20241h 8min
Angels on Haight Ashbury
'Health care is a right, not a privilege' *Whilst many of his fellow physicians became business entrepeneurs rather than healers, Dr. Dave opened the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic in 1967, ministering...
9 Jun 202459min
Post-Punk Druidry - with Youth
*"Punk taught us the future had only just begun” he says *For him that future was to include the bands Killing Joke, The Orb, Brilliant and The KLF; starting various record labels; hit records; prod...
28 Mai 20241h 4min
The Women at the Heart of Britain's Biggest Acid Bust
*Julie Taylor was a police officer who gave her name to 'OPERATION JULIE', the biggest drug bust in UK history and one which resulted in the conviction of over a hundred individuals involved in the t...
14 Mai 202459min
