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  • Nancy Thompson – Growing up Hippie
    2024/10/04

    Nancy spent her early years at Shrub Family in Norfolk. In this podcast she tells us just how inspiring it was to grow up in the alternative East Anglian culture of the 1970s and 80s.

    Nancy's Substack
    https://nancythompson731.substack.com/p/making-sense-of-my-weird-upbringing

    Shrub Family
    https://diggersanddreamers.org.uk/community/shrub-family

    Albion Fairs
    https://fairsarchive.wordpress.com

    Global Village Trucking Company (BBC documentary)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SNrBey7yQI

    Spaceheads:
    https://spaceheads.co.uk/recordings/a-new-world-in-our-hearts/

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    51 分
  • Freer Spreckley – Lifespan: A Commune on the Moors
    2024/09/14

    As Lifespan Community celebrates its half centenary we bring you an interview with Freer Spreckley who was one of the founders back in 1974. He and Hylda Sims were both alumni of the famous Summerhill School and originally saw Lifespan as being a kind of lifelong version of Summerhill. Freer describes the early years of that isolated intentional community based in terraced houses, located high in the Yorkshire Moors.

    Summerhill School
    https://www.summerhillschool.co.uk

    Lifespan Community Collective
    https://diggersanddreamers.org.uk/community/lifespan-community-collective

    Commune on the Moors: The Story of Lifespan
    https://diggersanddreamers.org.uk/shop/commune-on-the-moors

    Spaceheads:
    https://spaceheads.co.uk/recordings/a-new-world-in-our-hearts/

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    57 分
  • Cath Muller – Communes in the North
    2024/08/03

    Cath Muller has had a long history in co-operativism having had a key role in the Radical Routes Network as well as being a member of Cornerstone Housing Co-op in Leeds. A few years ago she travelled (over-sea) to North America and was particularly inspired by a visit to Twin Oaks Community in Virginia. Now she's working with others to create "A Commune in the North" with the idea of bring about something on the same scale as Twin Oaks in the UK. And she doesn't want there to be just one commune... she wants there to be many of them!

    Radical Routes
    https://diggersanddreamers.org.uk/communities/radical-routes-members
    http://www.radicalroutes.org.uk/

    Cornerstone Housing Co-operative
    https://diggersanddreamers.org.uk/community/cornerstone-housing-co-operative

    A Commune in the North
    https://diggersanddreamers.org.uk/community/a-commune-in-the-north
    https://www.acommuneinthenorth.org.uk/

    Twin Oaks Community
    https://www.twinoaks.org

    Spaceheads:
    https://spaceheads.co.uk/recordings/a-new-world-in-our-hearts/

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    46 分
  • Jonathan How – bringing co-operation to a wider audience
    2024/07/04

    In this episode we're going in-house and speaking to Jonathan How – one of the original members of the Diggers & Dreamers team. As well as communal living he's had past involvements in radical bookshops, wholefoods, publishing, co-op development and more recently local government. Following his path from the British urban squatting movement of the 1970s to the present day we hear how his conclusion is that the hippies were right all along – they just needed to be a bit more organised! If we're ever going to achieve anything then we all need to rebalance our mindsets so that they're made up of equal parts digging and dreaming.

    Diggers & Dreamers Timeline:
    https://www.diggersanddreamers.org.uk.about/timeline

    Spaceheads:
    https://spaceheads.co.uk/recordings/a-new-world-in-our-hearts/

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    59 分
  • Bill Metcalf – a Lifelong Communitarian
    2024/06/02

    This month we welcome Dr Bill Metcalf both a lifelong communitarian and an academic based in Australia. Bill starts us off by exploring the definition of intentional community and the utopian goal of living a ‘better’ life. This prompts the question of what we mean by better, who gets to decide this, how is this shaped by the politics and history of communities?

    Dr William Metcalf:
    https://hpi.uq.edu.au/profile/4546/bill-metcalf

    Shared Visions Shared Lives
    Bill Metcalf 1996, ISBN 13: 9781899171019

    Spaceheads:
    https://spaceheads.co.uk/recordings/a-new-world-in-our-hearts/

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    44 分
  • Whiteway Colony - Anarchy in the Cotswolds
    2024/04/30

    In this episode host Kirsten Stevens-Wood interviews David Harris, who is a resident and archivist from an extraordinary community called Whiteway Colony. Whiteway was founded in 1898 by Tolstoyan anarchists, and has been going strong for over 125 years. David shares some of Whiteway’s most interesting stories, including intrusions from spies, accusations of “beastly morals”, and sharing taken to the next level! He also explains how Whiteway residents live together today, and how he is archiving Whiteway’s rich history.

    Whiteway Colony:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteway_Colony

    Utopia Britannica:
    https://www.utopia-britannica.org.uk/pages/whiteway.htm

    Whiteway Colony: Social History of a Tolstoyan Community
    Joy Thacker 1993, ISBN 13: 9780952176008

    Spaceheads:
    https://spaceheads.co.uk/recordings/a-new-world-in-our-hearts/

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    55 分