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The History of LSD.

Jay Stevens. His book, Storming Heaven, charts the forty-year history of the hallucinogen LSD. (Rebroadcast. Original broadcast Wednesday, July 26, 1987.)

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Fresh Air with Terry Gross, May 20, 1988: Interview with Jay Stevens; Commentary on Irving Berlin; Interview with Guy Klucevsek; Review of the films 'Flesh," "Trash," and "Heat."
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Guy Klucevsek Stops By With His Accordion for an Interview.

Avant-garde accordionist and composer Guy Klucevsek. Klucevsek grew up in western Pennsylvania, where polkas were a poplar musical form. Klucevsek has since developed an alternative polka style, best exemplified in his work on `"Polka From the Fringe," 23 three-minute polkas composed by a variety of experimental artists. (Rebroadcast. Original broadcast on Tuesday, January 19, 1988.)

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The History of LSD

Writer Jay Stevens has a new book about the creation of LSD in the 1940s, research into its therapeutic and weaponized potential in the 1950s, and its role in the 1960s counterculture--fueled in part by the influence of people like Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey and Aldous Huxley.

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