Nov 30, 2023
We take a different route into our conversation this time around, in what turns out to be the first in a two-parter woven around John Higgs’s book, The KLF: Chaos, Magic & the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds, which Ed has been reading. It’s the kind of book that detonates in the mind, sparking a million...
Nov 17, 2023
We recorded this episode on Dougald’s birthday – and Ed starts with the image of him wearing Anna’s family’s Coyote coat, triggering unsettling flashbacks to the QAnon shaman, who is apparently now running for Congress. Welcome to the dark weirdness of 2023.
Ed quotes from Paul Mason’s ‘Gaza: Time for...
Nov 1, 2023
Welcome back to Season 5 of The Great Humbling! Here are some show notes...
The Regrowing a Living Culture series at a school called HOME starts on 7 & 8 November.
Ed has been reading Dougie Strang’s book, The Bone Cave.
Dougald mentions the cluster of authors who were part of the first decade of Dark Mountain who are...
Sep 28, 2023
In February this year, we took The Great Humbling into a new format, a live conversation on stage at Norwich Arts Centre as part of the UK tour that Dougald made to launch his book, At Work in the Ruins. It's taken us rather a long time to get the recording edited, but here it is at last.
For this live show, Ed and...
Feb 1, 2023
We reach the end of Season 4 of The Great Humbling, though Ed and Dougald start the show with an invitation to a one-off live recording of a special episode with guests Rupert Read and Charlotte Du Cann for those who can join us in Norwich on 20 February.
As always, we start off by talking about what we've...