Diggers and Dreamers Podcast
1) Lakshmi Piette Walker - In Search of a Dwelling Place
Lakshmi Piette Walker began her communal "career" at Lyn's House Community in Cambridge. But she didn't stop there. Now she's exploring the concept of Christian community at a global level and through...Show More
2) Bridport Cohousing: a developing community that never gave up
Monica King and Lin Scrannage describe the long journey that has finally led to the successful creation of Bridport Cohousing Community in Dorset. Despite all the legal and financial obstacles that th...Show More
3) Pilsdon Community: A life centred on prayer, hospitality and work
Kirsten chats with Mary Davies and James Newman who are both long term members of Pilsdon Community. They're joined by Helen Lynch who has just become the new Warden. They talk about the original insp...Show More
4) Matt Holland: Lower Shaw Farm - Oasis in Suburbia
Matt describes how he was born into a Bruderhof Community in England which then moved to... South America! Back in the UK as a young adult in the 1970s he chanced upon Lower Shaw - an old farmhouse wi...Show More
5) Barbara Sanders And Chris Coates: Lives In Common, Part 2
Barbara Sanders and Chris Coates continue the story of Burnley-based People in Common. This episode covers the move from terraced houses to Altham Cornmill and the many creative ways in which this mov...Show More
6) Barbara Sanders and Chris Coates: Lives in Common, Part 1
As another 1970s commune heads for its fiftieth anniversary we interview Barbara Sanders - one of the founders - and Chris Coates who joined later but lived at People in Common for a couple of decades...Show More
7) Mary Inglis – Findhorn Community: a long and illustrious history
Mary joined the Findhorn Community back in 1973 so she has a really good overview of all that's happened there in the intervening decades. It seems that recent events may be making the place far more ...Show More
8) Nancy Thompson – Growing up Hippie
Nancy spent her early years at Shrub Family in Norfolk. In this podcast she tells us just how inspiring it was to grow up in the alternative East Anglian culture of the 1970s and 80s. Shrub Family...Show More
9) Freer Spreckley – Lifespan: A Commune on the Moors
As Lifespan Community celebrates its half centenary we bring you an interview with Freer Spreckley who was one of the founders back in 1974. He and Hylda Sims were both alumni of the famous Summerhill...Show More
10) Cath Muller – Communes in the North
Cath Muller has had a long history in co-operativism having had a key role in the Radical Routes Network as well as being a member of Cornerstone Housing Co-op in Leeds. A few years ago she travelled ...Show More