Counter cultures

Have recommended Laurie Taylor to you, several times before, dear readers. This weeks show is another gem, and I thoughly commend it to you.

You can hear the show again, for the next 7 days at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/rams/thinkingallowed.ram

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Laurie Taylor talks to Barry Miles, a veteran of the era when students around the world really believed that all you needed was love to change the world. Miles founded the Indica Gallery where John Lennon met Yoko Ono, he saw the Albert Hall filled with Beat poets and wrote down his memories of the Sixties because Allen Ginsberg told him too.

They’ll be joined by cultural commentator Professor George McKay to discuss why, like the Cheshire cat, counter-culture comes and goes but never quite disappears.

Additional information

Professor George McKay

Cultural Studies Dept

University of Central Lancashire

Preston PR1 2HE

Tel: 01772 201201

George McKay

Senseless Acts of Beauty: Cultures of Resistance since the Sixties

Verso Books (1996)

ISBN: 1859840280

George McKay

DiY Culture: Party & Protest in Nineties Britain

Verso Books (1998)

ISBN: 1859842607

Social Movement Studies: Journal of Social, Cultural and Political Protest (Carfax)

Barry Miles

In the Sixties

Jonathan Cape

ISBN: 0224062409

Arthur Marwick

The Sixties

Oxford Paperbacks

ISBN: 0192881000

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/thinkingallowed.shtml?focuswin

I have supplied pictures for a couple of George McKay’s books.

‘Senseless Acts of Beauty: Cultures of Resistance since the Sixties’ has some of my work from Castlemorton. Also ‘Glastonbury: A Very English Fair’ has work of mine from over ten years of the festival.