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

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

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

where he works on modern

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

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

is titled Residual Noise. So Mr. Riley, are you there?

I'm here, William. Thank you for having me. How are you? I'm doing great. Thanks for agreeing to the interview. For people may not have heard you here in the States or familiar with you. Can you talk a little bit about your background and what kind of led you into this book, The Bad Trip? Yeah, absolutely. No problem. Well, as I said, thanks for having me and hello

to everyone who's listening. Thanks for tuning in. My name's James Riley. I am a,

you heard there, I'm a fellow of English at Gerton. So my kind of disciplinary background is

English studies, English literature, but I've always been interested in the more

modern and contemporary material with an emphasis, I guess, on the, I suppose, the undertowes,

the things that are sort of somehow left off the map. I'm interested in what puts things

to margins, how kind of counter trends emerge, I'm very

interested in popular culture and how literature sort of soaks up ideas from what we might call

the fringes. I suppose that's what I'm generally interested in, researching and teaching literature.

So my training is in English literature as a discipline. In terms of interested in the 1960s,

it is always something I've been interested in from quite a young age. I grew up listening to

loads of really great 60s music, very much thanks to my father's record collection, which I think

is a way that lots of people

get into that kind of music. And I grew up also during the, what in the UK is called

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