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Radio 4,26 Mar 2019,29 mins

Hippy Internet - The Whole Earth Catalog

The Well of Random

Available for over a year

Sukhdev Sandhu travels to the epicentres of countercultural America in Woodstock and San Francisco to tell the story of a book of hippy philosophy that defined the 1960s and intimated how the internet would grow long before the web arrived. With Luc Sante, Eliot Weinberger, Kenneth Goldsmith, Ed Sanders, Lois Britton, and Fred Turner. Producer: Tim Dee.

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