The Beat Goes On: The Sounds of Allen Ginsberg
YOUTH, producer of a huge range of artists (including Kate Bush, Crowded House, The Orb, KLF, The Verve, Guns ’n’ Roses and Primal Scream) and Jesse Goodman of the Allen Ginsberg Estate come to the Bu...
17 Feb 20241h
London's Lost Street of Song
Britain’s own Tin Pan Alley, Denmark Street was once alive with the sound of hammered pianos, and sung melodies and choruses. Its songwriters knocked out tunes on the fly and rushed to the street to s...
5 Feb 202459min
Countercultural Libido: A History of 'Perversion'
Warning: this episode contains discussions of sexual and other adult themes. Julie Peakman is a historian of eighteenth-century culture who specialises in the study sexuality and pornography. She is t...
20 Jan 20241h 6min
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
