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William Ramsey Investigates

Author James Riley discusses his book The Bad Trip: Dark Omens, New Worlds, and the End of the Sixties. From the WRI Archives.

William Ramsey Investigates

William Ramsey Investigates

News Commentary, News, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.3657 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Author James Riley discusses his book The Bad Trip: Dark Omens, New Worlds, and the End of the Sixties.

From the WRI Archives.

Book on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Trip-Omens-Worlds-Sixties/dp/178578594X/ref=sr_1_4?crid=3H4GUFGJXDZLN&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.exAx377yFE-kf2Fn98ngjARIt3fW5NdnKZlD4eDdE6iucuAlWsYzNrN-HRCw7TeS60TZsF3_kRoZWwWRNw_A82fve09SHpR1fYb6jrfc6bIBcfrcQdYEb7M6v_GLXg3Okl39vr2IASsBMKsLBnqY71-cKsqQQFx3uHMt2YmRxpTKw-FQzte79GPtFM34lJ9tnuuGwLkHVWTVXpSTML3w_k3ub-jqbbm3yxbNQiPL83U.Doz-Xn0ZZSaDcSP7r6IkauDv3DCKZ7BRtQH7KrVF-oQ&dib_tag=se&keywords=bad+trip+book&qid=1717432172&sprefix=bad+trip+book%2Caps%2C135&sr=8-4

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0:00.0

All right, 321. Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on tonight show. I have a very special guest. He comes to us from the UK. His name is James Riley. He published a book a couple years ago. The title of the bad trip, dark omens, new worlds, and the end of the 60s. It's a fascinating book. It really goes in detail in many aspects of that tumultuous decade, things that I didn't know about.

0:23.7

So I learned a lot reading the book, which I finished this morning.

0:26.5

Mr. Riley is the Muriel Bradbrook Official Fellow of English Literature at Gerton College, Cambridge,

0:33.0

which is one of the 31 constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge,

0:36.8

where he works on modern

0:38.4

and contemporary literature, popular film, and 1960s culture. It's widely published and has written

0:43.7

for the Times, The I Big Issued North 14 times, Artigo Monolith and One-on-One, and his blog

0:49.6

is titled Residual Noise. So Mr. Riley, are you there? I'm here, William.

0:55.0

Thank you for having me.

0:56.0

How are you?

0:56.7

I'm doing great.

0:57.4

Thanks for agreeing to the interview.

0:58.7

For people may not have heard you here in the States or familiar with you.

1:01.8

Can you talk a little bit about your background and what kind of led you into this book,

1:06.7

The Bad Trip?

1:07.9

Yeah, absolutely.

1:08.7

No problem.

1:09.4

As I said, thanks for having me.

1:12.5

And hello to everyone who's listening.

1:14.0

Thanks for tuning in.

1:16.4

My name's James Riley.

1:20.9

I am a, you heard there, I'm a fellow of English at Gerton.

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