4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
When Sunday Times journalist Decca Aitkenhead went to report from a Jamaican magic mushrooms retreat last year, she arrived a sceptic – but left feeling profoundly changed.
Guest: Decca Aitkenhead, chief interviewer, The Sunday Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
0:00.0 | Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey. |
0:11.0 | So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas. |
0:16.5 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply check the Uber app. There's a new medical movement that's making waves, |
0:28.8 | psychedelics, with studies claiming, controversially, that hallucinogenic drugs might have all sorts of |
0:36.4 | surprising mental health benefits. |
0:38.4 | It's like 10 years of therapy or it's worth 10 years of therapy in one week. |
0:45.0 | We hear the story of one journalist who tried magic mushrooms to deal with her grief. |
0:51.0 | But did this treatment work for her? |
0:54.0 | As far as I was concerned, this is just a complete joke. |
0:58.0 | I've been given rubbish drugs by some lunatic who thinks things are going to get better if I pretend to be a banjo. |
1:05.0 | This is stories of our times from the Times and the Sunday Times. |
1:09.7 | I'm Manveen Rana. |
1:11.5 | Today, the trip of a lifetime. Oh, life in 2013 was absolutely brilliant. |
1:25.0 | It's funny, there's not oftentimes in your life when you're conscious in real time |
1:28.0 | that everything has come good. |
1:30.0 | Usually that's something you only see in retrospect, |
1:32.0 | but I remember being really conscious |
1:34.4 | that life was in a astonishingly happy place. |
1:38.8 | Deca Aitkenhead is chief interviewer at the Sunday Times, But today it's me doing the interviewing. |
1:45.0 | She's here to tell me about a magic mushroom retreat, |
1:48.0 | but first she takes me back to a day that changed her life forever. |
1:54.0 | My eldest was three and our youngest was two and I've been with their father for about seven |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Times, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Times and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.