Psilocybe Pickers - A Short History of Bemushroomed Britons
For centuries, it seems Britain’s magic mushrooms remained hidden in plain sight—growing in fields, parks, and hillsides. When knowledge of them did emerge, it passed between people through rumours, o...
10 Sep 57min
A Countercultural History of the Universe
Has 20th-and 21st-century physics moved away from the brute materialism of the nineteenth century toward ideas that resemble the world’s ancient mystical traditions? Might many of the discipline’s gre...
21 Aug 51min
Levitating the Pentagon and other Stories
She's 82 but is firing on all cylinders, still crazy after all these years, as Paul Simon sang, well, still crazy enough to believe the world can be changed for the better, that it's her duty to try t...
2 Aug 1h
Peace is a Fire: The Monk Who Set Himself Alight
There are some images that don’t simply record history—they change it. On the morning of 11 June 1963, at a busy crossroads in Saigon, Thích Quảng Đức, a Buddhist monk, calmly sat down in the lotus po...
19 Juli 59min
The Road to Rebellion - Part 1
Roc Sanford is a British writer, artist and climate activist whose life has been a countercultural journey from an alternative childhood through academia to a remarkable experiment in off-grid living ...
3 Juli 50min
Free Radicals - Tripping in the 18th Century.
In the company of historian of drugs, MIKE JAY, we journey back to the first psychedelic age - not the 1960s, but the 1790s, when Britain was at the forefront, at the frontier, of gonzo psychedelic sc...
10 Juni 55min
The Shadow of the Counterculture
Ever thought the so-called ‘golden decade’ of the 1960s was only about peace and love? Think again. Beneath the surface, it was riddled with violence, paranoia, and chaos, even in its most iconic mome...
24 Maj 1h
21st Century Mutoid Man: Joe Rush - Part 2
This is the second part of our conversation with Joe Rush, the initiator, mentor, and driving force behind The Mutoid Waste Company, that extraordinary countercultural endeavour to turn the waste of o...
19 Maj 1h 2min
