The Incredible String Band Part 2: Inside Looking Out
*In this, the second of a two parter, we hear more of the crazy countercultural life and times of The Incredible String Band - from the inside looking out - with Rose Simpson *Rose was one quarte...
8 Jan 20241h 8min
The Incredible String Band - Part 1: Outside Looking In
They were artists, myth makers, story tellers, tribe leaders, psychedelic troubadours; they pioneered "world music” with albums like The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter; they experimented with theater, d...
25 Des 202352min
In the ’60s: The Birth of the British Underground
He was friends with Burroughs and Ginsberg, wrote their biographies along with those of The Beatles, Paul McCartney, Frank Zappa, Charles Bukowski, Jack Kereouc and penned books on The Beat Hotel, Pin...
11 Des 20231h 6min
How to Expand Your Consciousness Part 3: The Dreaming
*Niels Bohr discovered the structure of the atom in a dream, Coleridge wrote Kubla Khan after a dream, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was inspired by a dream, Hergé ’s 'Tintin in Tibet' - the first of ma...
27 Nov 202355min
Remembering the Crazy Diamond
•Cult icon, enigma, recluse, crazy diamond, he was the founding member of one of the world’s most famous and succesful rock groups, but the life of Syd Barrett is full of unanswered questions. •Wa...
11 Nov 20231h
How To Expand Your Consciousness Part 2: Tripping
*Psychedelics have made a comeback but they remain deeply mysterious. *They may be now seen as potential 'breakthrough therapy' for mental illness but we still have only a vague idea how they work, ...
31 Okt 202359min
Songs of War and Peace - with Boris Grebenshikov
*He is perhaps the biggest name in Russian rock music, famous as the leader of the band Aquarium throughout his homeland and 'Outer Russia’ (as the huge and growing number of Russian emigres are calle...
16 Okt 202359min
Riding The Oblivion Express - with Brian Auger
•He’s played with Jimi Hendrix, Sonny Boy Williamson, Paul McCartney, Rod Stewart, Jimmy Page, Billy Cobham, Spencer Davies, Long John Baldry, Rod Stewart, John McLaughlin, Tom Jones, Eric Burdon and...
2 Okt 202358min
