This week, Charles Foster explores how psychedelic drugs are changing lives; and Alan Jenkins on the lure of the open seas.
'Ten Trips: The new reality of psychedelics', by Andy Mitchell
'Psychedelics: The revolutionary drugs that could change your life – a
guide from the expert', by David Nutt
'I feel love: MDMA and the quest for connection in a fractured world',
by Rachel Nuwer
'Psychonauts: Drugs and the making of the modern mind', by Mike Jay
'Sailing Alone: A history', by Richard J King
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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Jane Austen and Abolition
Angela Thirkell’s Relentless Self-Belief
Pirandello’s Controlled Chaos
Violence Upon the Roads
Underground and on the Run
Getting Shakespeare’s Measure
Philip Roth, For Better, For Worse, Forever?
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Nostalgia, Outsiders and "Rubber Tramps"
Weapons, Grouse and Red Herrings
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The Barbara Comyns revival
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