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
The Soho Bibles: The Secret Porn of Post-War London
*Under the counter-culture.. *They were handmade illegal obscene books, a little like early punk zines, typewritten mimeographed manuscripts with two or three pornographic stories or a novella....
18 Sep 202359min
How to Expand Your Consciousness Part 1: Philosophy
Philosophy as Counterculture? *For thousands of years, humans have been trying to expand this mysterious thing called consciousness, not only by drugs, dancing, art and spiritual practice but ...
3 Sep 202352min
The Music of the Cults
*Their number encompasses the darkest bogeymen of countercultural nightmares- including Charles Manson, Jim Jones, David Koresh and the Reverend Moon -as well as saintly figures devoted to the good of...
20 Aug 20231h
Rock, Radicals and Racism
*Roger Huddle is a born and bred Londoner, a working class music-mad mod who grew up in the 50s, got radicalised in the 60s and became a co-founder of one the most successful activist groups of the 70...
6 Aug 202359min
So You Say You Want a (Sexual) Revolution?
The pill, Profumo, pornography. Love, liberation and libido. Larkin, Lady Chatterley, Lolita, *No era in recent history has been both more celebrated and more vilified than the 1960s. *For some ...
23 Juli 202357min
