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Radio 3,11 Jan 2018,45 mins

Counterculture and Protest

Free Thinking

Available for over a year

Matthew Sweet discusses protests like the 1968 uprising at Columbia University, 1985's Battle of the Beanfield and the acid house movement with guests Paul Hartnoll of Orbital, novelist Tony White, editor Paul Cronin and writer Tessa DeCarlo. The Fountain in the Forest by Tony White is available now A Time To Stir: Columbia '68 edited by Paul Cronin is out now Producer: Debbie Kilbride Main image: Students protesting, on the Columbia University Campus, in April 1968. Credit: University Archives, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, NY City.

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