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Diggers & Dreamers

Written by: Diggers and Dreamers Collective
  • Summary

  • A podcast which covers the field of intentional community – cohousing, low impact communities, housing co-ops, communes and spiritual communities.
    2024
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Episodes
  • Bill Metcalf – a Lifelong Communitarian
    Jun 2 2024

    This month we welcome Dr Bill Metcalf both a lifelong communitarian and an academic based in Australia. Bill starts us off by exploring the definition of intentional community and the utopian goal of living a ‘better’ life. This prompts the question of what we mean by better, who gets to decide this, how is this shaped by the politics and history of communities?

    Dr William Metcalf:
    https://hpi.uq.edu.au/profile/4546/bill-metcalf

    Shared Visions Shared Lives
    Bill Metcalf 1996, ISBN 13: 9781899171019

    Spaceheads:
    https://spaceheads.co.uk/recordings/a-new-world-in-our-hearts/

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    44 mins
  • Whiteway Colony - Anarchy in the Cotswolds
    Apr 30 2024

    In this episode host Kirsten Stevens-Wood interviews David Harris, who is a resident and archivist from an extraordinary community called Whiteway Colony. Whiteway was founded in 1898 by Tolstoyan anarchists, and has been going strong for over 125 years. David shares some of Whiteway’s most interesting stories, including intrusions from spies, accusations of “beastly morals”, and sharing taken to the next level! He also explains how Whiteway residents live together today, and how he is archiving Whiteway’s rich history.

    Whiteway Colony:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteway_Colony

    Utopia Britannica:
    https://www.utopia-britannica.org.uk/pages/whiteway.htm

    Whiteway Colony: Social History of a Tolstoyan Community
    Joy Thacker 1993, ISBN 13: 9780952176008

    Spaceheads:
    https://spaceheads.co.uk/recordings/a-new-world-in-our-hearts/

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    55 mins

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