Battle of the Beanfield: incident near Stonehenge on BBC Radio4
You might be interested to know that I’ve contributed to a Radio 4 program recently on the Battle of the Beanfield. It is part of the ‘In living memory’ series that has started on wednesday mornings.
Glad some caught the Radio 4 prog. I helped with background material, notes, videos, interviews etc. They were with me for 2 – 3 hours of interview, and I only got a very short mention. That’s ok, except I went off at length about how it was ‘different’ for many of us, other than the way it came out. Still, that’s editing and the BBC for you ….!
I think they misunderstood a fair chunk of our motives though. So much was about pagans etc…. There are not that many Pagan travellers, festival goers etc…. They did not arrest 420 pagans! but so many of us are about ‘gathering’, so would like that to have been better covered.
Still, ’twas worth doing. I’ve not forgotten that day, and hope the world doesn’t.
Here is the link to play the mp3 I’ve made from the program [on the stonehengeentertainmentsdiscussion group site
“THE BATTLE OF THE BEANFIELD – Radio4”
The show on the Beanfield, events back in 1985 was Transmitted yesterday:
BBC Radio4 on the 27th Novemeber at 11.00am.
You might find it interesting. Below are a shed-load of links, that informs the background to these events.
an earlier entry on blog at:
http://tash_lodge.blogspot.com/2002_07_21_tash_lodge_archive.html#79296253
and the festival in particular:
http://tash_lodge.blogspot.com/2002_10_13_tash_lodge_archive.html#83034092
For further background on all this, check out:
The story so far – history in context
http://tash.gn.apc.org/history.htm & http://tash.gn.apc.org/history.pdf
summary of beanfield bit
http://tash.gn.apc.org/sh_bean.htm
My ‘cell notes’
http://tash.gn.apc.org/sh_bean-notes1.htm
Photo-gallery of the day in field
http://tash.gn.apc.org/gal_beanf1.htm
diary I kept of my operations later year
http://tash.gn.apc.org/shenge_diary1988_1.htm
Assorted legal hassle, [for context]
http://tash.gn.apc.org/legal_assortment.htm
So much more on my main website at: http://tash.gn.apc.org since this was not an ‘isolated incident!’
