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. In a surprising turn of events some cheap and cheerful terraced houses in Burnley became the test location for pioneering co-operative model rules that remain important to this day.

People in Common
https://diggersanddreamers.org.uk/community/people-in-common

A Life in Common
https://diggersanddreamers.org.uk/shop/a-life-in-common

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

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 "intentional" than it once was.

Findhorn
https://diggersanddreamers.org.uk/community/findhorn

New Findhorn Association
https://www.findhorn.cc

Findhorn Foundation Trust (SCIO)
https://www.findhorn.org/findhorn-foundation-trust

Nancy spent her early years at Shrubb 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.

Nancy's Substack
https://nancythompson731.substack.com/p/making-sense-of-my-weird-upbringing

Shrubb Family
https://diggersanddreamers.org.uk/community/shrubb-family

Albion Fairs
https://fairsarchive.wordpress.com

Global Village Trucking Company (BBC documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SNrBey7yQI

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