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THE HIPPY TRAIL

Tuesday 18 September 2007
2230-2330





In the 1960s a few adventurous European and American youngsters, lured by tales of mystical experiences as well as sex and drugs, made their way through North Africa, the Middle East, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, to India. In an age before cheap flights, it was a long and arduous journey overland, often made on very little money.

When The Beatles and their entourage went as well, the trickle of hippies became a flood and through the 1970s India became the place to find a new way of life, on the beach, selling trinkets and living on a few pennies a day.

In this programme, Hardeep travels through India from the Sikh Golden Temple, where many hippies took advantage of free food and lodging, to the beaches of Goa, where he finds the strange drop-out remnants of another age.

The programme features the music of not just the 60s, but also the Hippy soundtrack of the 70s, 80s and 90s, including the enormously popular Goan Trance scene.

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