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BBC Radio 4 - Understand, The Trip
Tim Hayward looks at the science, culture, history - and future - of psychedelics.
www.bbc.co.uk
NEW TEN-PART AUDIO SERIES about #PSYCHEDELICS
Out now on BBC Sounds - and other podcast spaces.
Co-written & presented by the beautifully curious @timhayward.bsky.social
Production, sound design and mix by me.
It's been a fascinating and challenging process to get here...
I do hope you'll listen.
Out now on BBC Sounds - and other podcast spaces.
Co-written & presented by the beautifully curious @timhayward.bsky.social
Production, sound design and mix by me.
It's been a fascinating and challenging process to get here...
I do hope you'll listen.
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We’ve written to the Culture Secretary & Chair of the BBC Board, calling for Robbie Gibb’s removal from the board. Many BBC staff are concerned that he is a block to the BBC maintaining its chartered objective of independence. Read more here: bectu.org.uk/news/bectu-c...
Bectu calls for removal of Robbie Gibb from BBC Board
Following the resignation of Tim Davie from the BBC, Bectu has written to Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy and...
bectu.org.uk
November 14, 2025 at 11:02 AM
We’ve written to the Culture Secretary & Chair of the BBC Board, calling for Robbie Gibb’s removal from the board. Many BBC staff are concerned that he is a block to the BBC maintaining its chartered objective of independence. Read more here: bectu.org.uk/news/bectu-c...
“I was talking about the Green Man, but he wasn’t having it. He said: ‘Well, it’s got horns and it’s demonic.’
My husband had to actually step in”
The Piper at the Gates of the Abbey…..
@helleborezine.bsky.social
My husband had to actually step in”
The Piper at the Gates of the Abbey…..
@helleborezine.bsky.social
‘Demonic’ Wind in the Willows jumper banned from Westminster Abbey
Woman told to remove or cover up garment featuring 1908 illustration of Pan lest it offend worshippers
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:58 AM
“I was talking about the Green Man, but he wasn’t having it. He said: ‘Well, it’s got horns and it’s demonic.’
My husband had to actually step in”
The Piper at the Gates of the Abbey…..
@helleborezine.bsky.social
My husband had to actually step in”
The Piper at the Gates of the Abbey…..
@helleborezine.bsky.social
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A reader told me she was asked to take off her Hellebore “Wind in the Willows” jumper before entering Westminster Abbey. The reason given was that it depicts the devil and might offend people. The reader explained it was the Greek god Pan, but the security guard didn’t backtrack. Satanic panic 2025.
November 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
A reader told me she was asked to take off her Hellebore “Wind in the Willows” jumper before entering Westminster Abbey. The reason given was that it depicts the devil and might offend people. The reader explained it was the Greek god Pan, but the security guard didn’t backtrack. Satanic panic 2025.
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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The Ghibli offices right now.
November 4, 2025 at 7:45 AM
The Ghibli offices right now.
Honestly relieved to have this finally cleared up: the Denisovans - a group of ancient humans - are not the same as the maverick unshaven darts player nicknamed “The Heat”
October 31, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Honestly relieved to have this finally cleared up: the Denisovans - a group of ancient humans - are not the same as the maverick unshaven darts player nicknamed “The Heat”
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Somnambulant
~ Maximilian Pirner (1878)
~ Maximilian Pirner (1878)
October 28, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Somnambulant
~ Maximilian Pirner (1878)
~ Maximilian Pirner (1878)
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Seems kind of urgent
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Seems kind of urgent
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Happy birthday to #mathematician & geodesist Gladys West (née Brown 1930)! 🧪🐡👩🏾🔬🧮⚒️ #histsci Shown with 3 satellites important to her career + tracks: Seasat, GEOS-3 & a GPS satellite. Her work, using math to precisely model the shape of Earth, laid the groundwork for GPS! Born to sharecropper parents🧵
October 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Happy birthday to #mathematician & geodesist Gladys West (née Brown 1930)! 🧪🐡👩🏾🔬🧮⚒️ #histsci Shown with 3 satellites important to her career + tracks: Seasat, GEOS-3 & a GPS satellite. Her work, using math to precisely model the shape of Earth, laid the groundwork for GPS! Born to sharecropper parents🧵
"These yur ghosteses!" 🖤
October 17, 2025 at 10:41 AM
"These yur ghosteses!" 🖤
this should be a new option on every streaming service - and it could be magnificent
choose programme >> choose subtitles from any other programme to run underneath >> start
choose programme >> choose subtitles from any other programme to run underneath >> start
The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.
October 16, 2025 at 10:44 PM
this should be a new option on every streaming service - and it could be magnificent
choose programme >> choose subtitles from any other programme to run underneath >> start
choose programme >> choose subtitles from any other programme to run underneath >> start
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My piece in the latest @newscientist.com about #psychedelics and science.
You can listen to 'THE TRIP' podcast series now on BBC Sounds (or in other podcast places).
You can listen to 'THE TRIP' podcast series now on BBC Sounds (or in other podcast places).
Why abandoning psychedelic research in the 1970s was a blow to science
Work on medical uses of mind-altering substances was sidelined for decades by the political backlash against drugs, a misstep that has echoes in today’s intolerance of some fields of study
www.newscientist.com
October 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
My piece in the latest @newscientist.com about #psychedelics and science.
You can listen to 'THE TRIP' podcast series now on BBC Sounds (or in other podcast places).
You can listen to 'THE TRIP' podcast series now on BBC Sounds (or in other podcast places).
⚠️ CAUTION: GHOSTS CROSSING ⚠️
First sighting of the council's new signs in the wild...
First sighting of the council's new signs in the wild...
October 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
⚠️ CAUTION: GHOSTS CROSSING ⚠️
First sighting of the council's new signs in the wild...
First sighting of the council's new signs in the wild...
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Publication day is October 2nd tomorrow. Launch tonight for the first day of the London Month of the Dead at Highgate Cemetery!
October 1, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Publication day is October 2nd tomorrow. Launch tonight for the first day of the London Month of the Dead at Highgate Cemetery!
interesting quote - well worth following the link to see the full statement.
Also - Yamauchi was president of Nintendo from 1949-2002. That's... quite something
Also - Yamauchi was president of Nintendo from 1949-2002. That's... quite something
It's Nintendo's 136th birthday today, so here's the oldest quote I've got:
Yamauchi on the essence of amusement, 1984.
#Nintendo
#YamauchiQuote
www.notion.so/902471fa6e62...
Yamauchi on the essence of amusement, 1984.
#Nintendo
#YamauchiQuote
www.notion.so/902471fa6e62...
September 24, 2025 at 1:44 PM
interesting quote - well worth following the link to see the full statement.
Also - Yamauchi was president of Nintendo from 1949-2002. That's... quite something
Also - Yamauchi was president of Nintendo from 1949-2002. That's... quite something
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if audio wants to grow, it has to pivot to video
also, if salads want to grow, they should pivot to pudding
also, if salads want to grow, they should pivot to pudding
September 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
if audio wants to grow, it has to pivot to video
also, if salads want to grow, they should pivot to pudding
also, if salads want to grow, they should pivot to pudding
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🌿 New Podcast Alert: “The Trip” on BBC Radio 4 🎧
Dr. Osiris García Cerqueda is featured in episodes 9 & 10 of BBC Radio 4’s new podcast series “The Trip”, presented by @timhayward.bsky.social and produced by @haunted.audio and by @loftusmedia.bsky.social
Link: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
Dr. Osiris García Cerqueda is featured in episodes 9 & 10 of BBC Radio 4’s new podcast series “The Trip”, presented by @timhayward.bsky.social and produced by @haunted.audio and by @loftusmedia.bsky.social
Link: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
September 17, 2025 at 3:34 PM
🌿 New Podcast Alert: “The Trip” on BBC Radio 4 🎧
Dr. Osiris García Cerqueda is featured in episodes 9 & 10 of BBC Radio 4’s new podcast series “The Trip”, presented by @timhayward.bsky.social and produced by @haunted.audio and by @loftusmedia.bsky.social
Link: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
Dr. Osiris García Cerqueda is featured in episodes 9 & 10 of BBC Radio 4’s new podcast series “The Trip”, presented by @timhayward.bsky.social and produced by @haunted.audio and by @loftusmedia.bsky.social
Link: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
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art by mariia lutsak
September 4, 2025 at 10:38 PM
art by mariia lutsak
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This amazing series by Tim Hayward and Richard Ward @haunted.audio (🙏🙏🙏) also featured renowned neuroscientists such as @christimmermann.bsky.social, @katrinpreller.bsky.social, Gul Dölen, as well as nurses, historians, philosophers, sociologists, etc.
Enjoy! 🎧
Enjoy! 🎧
September 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This amazing series by Tim Hayward and Richard Ward @haunted.audio (🙏🙏🙏) also featured renowned neuroscientists such as @christimmermann.bsky.social, @katrinpreller.bsky.social, Gul Dölen, as well as nurses, historians, philosophers, sociologists, etc.
Enjoy! 🎧
Enjoy! 🎧
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🎙️ I am very proud to have participated (with a very strong French accent) to the BBC Radio 4 program Understand entitled "The Trip", about the science, culture, history and future of psychedelics 🌈
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
September 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
🎙️ I am very proud to have participated (with a very strong French accent) to the BBC Radio 4 program Understand entitled "The Trip", about the science, culture, history and future of psychedelics 🌈
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
this incredible nebula image made me think of the cover of Meddle by Pink Floyd - despite that being a picture of an ear (though the original plan was for it to be…an image of a baboon’s anus)
They are strikingly different images yet a connection was still made
brains are unfathomable, I love that
They are strikingly different images yet a connection was still made
brains are unfathomable, I love that
September 12, 2025 at 9:57 PM
this incredible nebula image made me think of the cover of Meddle by Pink Floyd - despite that being a picture of an ear (though the original plan was for it to be…an image of a baboon’s anus)
They are strikingly different images yet a connection was still made
brains are unfathomable, I love that
They are strikingly different images yet a connection was still made
brains are unfathomable, I love that
Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂
Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂
NEW TEN-PART AUDIO SERIES about #PSYCHEDELICS
Out now on BBC Sounds - and other podcast spaces.
Co-written & presented by the beautifully curious @timhayward.bsky.social
Production, sound design and mix by me.
It's been a fascinating and challenging process to get here...
I do hope you'll listen.
Out now on BBC Sounds - and other podcast spaces.
Co-written & presented by the beautifully curious @timhayward.bsky.social
Production, sound design and mix by me.
It's been a fascinating and challenging process to get here...
I do hope you'll listen.
BBC Radio 4 - Understand, The Trip
Tim Hayward looks at the science, culture, history - and future - of psychedelics.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
NEW TEN-PART AUDIO SERIES about #PSYCHEDELICS
Out now on BBC Sounds - and other podcast spaces.
Co-written & presented by the beautifully curious @timhayward.bsky.social
Production, sound design and mix by me.
It's been a fascinating and challenging process to get here...
I do hope you'll listen.
Out now on BBC Sounds - and other podcast spaces.
Co-written & presented by the beautifully curious @timhayward.bsky.social
Production, sound design and mix by me.
It's been a fascinating and challenging process to get here...
I do hope you'll listen.