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Episode 14: Pub Post Mortem
Stephanie and Fred head to the pub in Fitzrovia to carry out the post mortem on the series. Amongst other pressing matters, they ask how our subjects hold up against their more famous Bloomsbury…
S1E13 Episode 13: Escape to the Future
To wrap things up we return to conversations with several academics we heard from earlier. We ask them why is it that our subjects are so much less known than their Bloomsbury Set contemporaries. We…
S1E12 Episode 12: Escape to the Past… or, Magic Bowmen and Scary Fairies
Machen was a great influence on HP Lovecraft, and the development of the fantasy and horror genres. Stephen King is a fan. There is a direct line from Machen's writing to Dungeons and Dragons, grail…
S1E11 Episode 11: Roadman
Immensely talented and good looking, in the years leading up to the Great War Augustus John was a celebrity. London restaurants named dishes after him. But now he has faded into obscurity. The man…
S1E10 Episode 10: Roman Road
This time we eschew drugs and the occult, and instead focus on traditional christianity. We take a look at two men whose faith was central to their being and work. They were the artists, Stanley…
S1E9 Episode 9: Yoga, Stars and Self.
We round off our investigation into the ways the occult has impacted the present.Yoga was an “exotic” practice that percolated into the West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. It…
S1E8 Episode 8: Drugs... and Rock 'n' Roll
The legal situation around drugs was very different in London at the turn of the 20th century from what it is now. Opium was a go-to painkiller. And cocaine and cannabis products were also very…
S1E7 Episode 7: Sex Magic
Aleister Crowley and Austin Osman Spare are partially responsible for the development of what is known as sex magic. Crowley was, among other things, an occultist, an important figure in the…
Eccentric Circles: Back soon!
We'll be covering the modern holy trinity of Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll, along with other more traditional religious devotion. We'll look into the popularity of the occult and its lasting legacy.…
S1E6 Episode 6: Orgasms are Good for Empire
WARNING: this episode uses explicit language almost from the start.In 1918, the year that the First World War ended, a slim little book was published. Its title was Married Love, and it was going to…
S1E5 Episode 5: Blast Off
London sees the arrival of Italian Futurism with its glorification of machinery, war, and above all, the motor car. The Futurists, in turn, engender Vorticism, possibly Britain’s only homegrown…
S1E4 Episode 4: Stirrings and Straw men, Nude and Naked
At the turn of the 20th century, in Britain establishment tastes in art prevailed and leaned traditional. Despite being the heart of a global empire, the country suffered from an island mentality.…
S1E3 Episode 3: The Edwardians: The Good the Bad and the Ugly (Part 2)
The Edwardian period tends to get a bad rap - legitimately in the case of human zoos - but is there anything for which we ought to be grateful?Because of how it ended, with the carnage of the First…
S1E2 Episode 2: The Edwardians: The Good the Bad and the Ugly (Part 1)
We tend to think of the Edwardian period as a dull interlude, where a complacent ruling class lazed away in blissful ignorance of what was coming: industrialised warfare and the dissolution of…
S1E1 Episode 1: The Belly of the Beast
Right at London’s centre is Trafalgar Square, presided over, from his column, by the wounded figure of Admiral Nelson. Running into the Square from the East is The Strand. It has been a thoroughfare…
Eccentric Circles - Coming Soon!
Some periods, some cities give rise to ideas and circles of thinkers, that are both of the time and outside it. Machine Age London has had a deep legacy on all our lives - on matters as disparate as…
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