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February 2017
Rave culture is one of Britain's great cultural exports, but after its first wave in the late 1980s and early 1990s it was forced into the underground by stringent new laws and the rise of licensed super clubs. Fast forward 25 years into the midst of a nationwide purge on the UK's nightlife, where nearly half of all Britis...
Ibiza is a place that looms large in all our imaginations: the sun-kissed, beer-drenched rock in the middle of the Mediterranean where all hedonistic dreams can come true. But what is it that makes people come back year after year to the same tiny island? Host Clive Martin sets off to investigate the magnetic appeal of "th...
After overthrowing their communist regime in 1989 Romania celebrated the dawn of a new era of freedom. But which freedom did they mean? Two beaches. Two Tribes. Two expressions of newly found freedom. But at what cost? Mamaia is the stomping ground for the nouveau riche who earn big in Romania’s capital Bucharest in the we...
January 2017
Greece is a hub of hedonistic nightlife and the site of a refugee crisis. How do the tourists, the immigrants and the destitute locals coexist in this paradise of party islands?
Hardcore music provides an escape for young misfits from Holland’s industrial ghost towns, but the Protestant Church is fighting back, making rave the new generational battleground.
Ukraine is a politically polarised nation divided by war. But how has the country's party scene been affected by the deep-running conflicts of cultural identity?
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