Romantics, Mystics & Revolutionaries with Pete Bearder

About the show

Romantics, Mystics & Revolutionaries
A storytelling storm of rebellion and enchantment
Pete Bearder + support from Gaia Harvey Jackson
 
The Romantic movement rose as an act of defiance - against empire, industry, and the mechanisation of the soul. 
This performance lecture blends scholarship with comedy, and poetry to conjure a spellbinding history of mysticism, sedition and psychedelic testing. 

What might these dreams of freedom and renewal offer our age of despair? Expect reverence, resistance, and wild imagination in this dramatic and engaging story.

Pete Bearder is an award-winning spoken word poet, author, and comic whose work has featured on BBC Radio 4, Newsnight, and the World Service.