The Vision Collectors

*Do you believe it's possible to know the future?

 

*Deep in the heart of the countercultural 60s, when the boundaries of consciousness were being explored and pushed forward, when human achievements were coming thick and fast, a psychiatrist and a rather un-counterculural science journalist, prompted by a terrible disaster, carried out a peculiar experiment with time..

 

*Writer SAM KNIGHT comes to the Bureau to tell their strange story and that of The Premonition Bureau - an attempt to harness the intuitions of the British public in order to predict - and possibly avoid - disasters.

 

*Visions of the future, foresight, foretelling, divination and  prophecies have populated myth, literature and history - the notion that time is not linear is even gaining currency in science, but is it really possible to anticipate what has not yet happened?

 

*We talk about all this and about writing, listening, the placebo and nocebeo effects, about psychic research.  voodoo death phenomenon and the writing of his wonderful book.

 

*Sam's book 'The Premonition Bureau'
https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571357567-the-premonitions-bureau/

*Sign up for the Bureau of Lost Culture bulletin
https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/N0ZYoFu/BOLC

 

*The Story of the Brompton Time Machine

https://soundcloud.com/the-real-tuesday-weld-1/the-brompton-time-machine

 

Jeff Edwards - the last child to be pulled from the Aberfan wreckage. 

 

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