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The History Hour: Why a British MP was filmed taking mescaline

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15/05/2021 GMT

Why a British MP was filmed taking mescaline

BBC World Service - The History Hour, Why a British MP was filmed taking mescaline

A history of psychedelic experiments, contraception in Ireland, an Iraqi escape story

A history of psychedelic experiments, the battle to legalise contraception in Ireland, a pro-democracy pioneer in 1970s China,  and an Iraqi escape story

# Warning: This programme contains descriptions of drug use #
In 1955 Christopher Mayhew MP took the hallucinogenic drug mescaline for a TV experiment. We look back at the history of psychedelic research and speak to Dr Robin Carhart-Harris, head of the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London. Plus, the battle to legalise contraception in Ireland, a pro-democracy activist in China,  the chemical and biological weapons programme in apartheid South Africa, and why thousands of Jews secretly fled Iraq in the 1970s.

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