{"id":6158,"date":"2022-05-11T14:43:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T14:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6158"},"modified":"2022-05-11T14:43:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T14:43:04","slug":"a-succession-of-repetitive-beats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/6158","title":{"rendered":"A Succession of Repetitive Beats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A Succession of Repetitive Beats. BBC Radio4 8pm o 14th May 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m0017f1b\"><strong>h<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m0017f1b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>ttps:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m0017f1b<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/p0c5rt55.jpg?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6159\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Political journalist Tom Barton recalls the rave that changed Britain, at Castlemorton Common in May 1992.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the weeks leading up to Castlemorton, New Age Travellers had tried to establish small festivals in Gloucestershire and Somerset &#8211; but had been moved on by police at every turn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arriving in West Worcestershire, they parked up at Castlemorton with the intention, they claim, of gathering just a few hundred people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, to the horror and outrage of local people, between 20,000 and 30,000 people arrived, with many staying at the site for an entire week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The law that was created in response to the gathering, Part V of the 1994 Criminal Justice and Public Order Act, makes it a criminal offence to hold an unlicensed gathering playing any music that is \u201cwholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The festival is now widely regarded as the tipping point in a culture war which saw many aspects of the Traveller lifestyle outlawed in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Presented, written and produced by Tom Barton<br>Sound Design: Barney Philbrick and Joel Cox<br>A Bespoken Media production for BBC Radio 4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Succession of Repetitive Beats. BBC Radio4 8pm o 14th May 2022 https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m0017f1b Political journalist Tom Barton recalls the rave that changed Britain, at Castlemorton Common in May 1992. In the weeks leading up to Castlemorton, New Age Travellers had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/6158\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1306,568,886,130,589,128,1321,358],"class_list":["post-6158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1","tag-bbc","tag-castlemorton","tag-cja","tag-free","tag-freeparty","tag-party","tag-radio4","tag-rave"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6160,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158\/revisions\/6160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}