Ecstasy: The Battle Of Rave

ECSTASY: THE BATTLE OF RAVE (320kbs-m4a/962mb/6hrs57mins)
BBC Radio 5 Live broadcast: 8th & 11th September 2020

This podcast contains strong language and references to drug use.

All characters portrayed by the dramatic actors are fictional.

ECSTASY: THE BATTLE OF RAVE - 1. #BATTLEOFRAVE: COMING SOON... (320kbs-m4a/4mb/2mins)
BBC Radio 5 Live broadcast: 8th September 2020

When Ecstasy and Acid House first swept Britain, a group of lives would be changed forever. One Story. Half real life. Half drama. Coming soon... Ecstasy: The Battle Of Rave.

ECSTASY: THE BATTLE OF RAVE - 2. EP1. I NEED YOUR LOVE (320kbs-m4a/73mb/32mins)
BBC Radio 5 Live broadcast: 11th September 2020

The very first MDMA pills hit Britain. Ecstasy fuses with the music of Acid House - and four ordinary people's lives are changed forever. #BattleOfRave

Credits:
Presenter: Chris Warburton
Series Producer: Emma Forde
Additional Production: Nicola Dowling and Jane Andrews
Sound Design: Sam Turner
Digital: Eleanor Layhe and Alex Entwistle
Editor and Executive Producer: Ciaran Tracey

ECSTASY: THE BATTLE OF RAVE - 3. MEERA SYAL AS THE RAVER (320kbs-m4a/34mb/15mins)
BBC Radio 5 Live broadcast: 11th September 2020

She's Mrs Ordinary now. But offer her an E, and she might just bite your hand off. All because there's a hole she has to fill... #BattleOfRave

Credits:
Performed by Meera Syal
Written by Danny Brocklehurst
Producer and Director: Gary Brown
Sound Design and Mixing: Steve Brooke
Editor and Executive Producer: Ciaran Tracey

ECSTASY: THE BATTLE OF RAVE - 4. EP2. WIZARDS OF E (320kbs-m4a/71mb/31mins)
BBC Radio 5 Live broadcast: 11th September 2020

In the music and drug underground of Manchester, the pills have changed everything - all helped along by a famous name. In the Acid House dives and clubs, a special romance begins. #BattleOfRave

Credits:
Presenter: Chris Warburton
Series Producer: Emma Forde
Additional Production: Nicola Dowling and Jane Andrews
Sound Design: Sam Turner
Digital: Eleanor Layhe and Alex Entwistle
Editor and Executive Producer: Ciaran Tracey

ECSTASY: THE BATTLE OF RAVE - 5. IAN HART AS THE DEALER (320kbs-m4a/26mb/11mins)
BBC Radio 5 Live broadcast: 11th September 2020

It started with a few bags of weed on the estate: but the pills turned it into a multinational operation. And the money... was mad. But so too was the life. #BattleOfRave

Credits:
Performed by Ian Hart
Written by Danny Brocklehurst
Producer and Director: Gary Brown
Sound Design and Mixing: Steve Brooke
Editor and Executive Producer: Ciaran Tracey

ECSTASY: THE BATTLE OF RAVE - 6. EP3. PUMP UP THE VOLUME (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 5 Live broadcast: 11th September 2020

Where do you get a million E's to bring into Britain? At the start, there was one answer: Amsterdam. And this is exactly how the deals were done. #BattleOfRave

Credits:
Presenter: Chris Warburton
Series Producer: Emma Forde
Additional Production: Nicola Dowling and Jane Andrews
Sound Design: Sam Turner
Digital: Eleanor Layhe and Alex Entwistle
Editor and Executive Producer: Ciaran Tracey

ECSTASY: THE BATTLE OF RAVE - 7. MONICA DOLAN AS THE DJ (320kbs-m4a/40mb/17mins)
BBC Radio 5 Live broadcast: 11th September 2020

She doesn't believe in God anymore - but behind the decks she was a messiah. When the dancefloor's fuelled by the pills though... the devil can come too close for comfort. #BattleOfRave

Credits:
Performed by Monica Dolan
Written by Danny Brocklehurst
Producer and Director: Gary Brown
Sound Design and Mixing: Steve Brooke
Editor and Executive Producer: Ciaran Tracey

ECSTASY: THE BATTLE OF RAVE - 8. EP4. BLACKBURN RAVERS (320kbs-m4a/74mb/32mins)
BBC Radio 5 Live broadcast: 11th September 2020

An empty warehouse... a disused mill... the search is on for anywhere to rave, in the unlikeliest of towns. The technicolour Acid House revolution though will soon meet darkness. #BattleOfRave

Credits:
Presenter: Chris Warburton
Series Producer: Emma Forde
Additional Production: Nicola Dowling and Jane Andrews
Sound Design: Sam Turner
Digital: Eleanor Layhe and Alex Entwistle
Editor and Executive Producer: Ciaran Tracey

ECSTASY: THE BATTLE OF RAVE - 9. ADRIAN EDMONDSON AS THE ENTREPRENEUR (320kbs-m4a/34mb/15mins)
BBC Radio 5 Live broadcast: 11th September 2020

He saw the need to party - and the cash that could be made from raves. He'd hit it big on both, running parties for thousands every week. Until, as 88 turned to 89, the politicians got involved. #BattleOfRave

Credits:
Performed by Adrian Edmondson
Written by Danny Brocklehurst
Producer and Director: Gary Brown
Sound Design and Mixing: Steve Brooke
Editor and Executive Producer: Ciaran Tracey

ECSTASY: THE BATTLE OF RAVE - 10. EP5. CALL THE COPS (320kbs-m4a/79mb/34mins)
BBC Radio 5 Live broadcast: 11th September 2020

It's the second summer of love. E is everywhere, and Acid House has its new national anthems. Warehouses and car convoys come alive. After deaths, the media is outraged: and a battle of wills begins between the police and the ravers. #BattleOfRave

Credits:
Presenter: Chris Warburton
Series Producer: Emma Forde
Additional Production: Nicola Dowling and Jane Andrews
Sound Design: Sam Turner
Digital: Eleanor Layhe and Alex Entwistle
Editor and Executive Producer: Ciaran Tracey

ECSTASY: THE BATTLE OF RAVE - 11. DAVID MORRISSEY AS THE UNDERCOVER COP (320kbs-m4a/24mb/10mins)
BBC Radio 5 Live broadcast: 11th September 2020

Policing the doors used to be easy - but with Ecstasy came a new breed of dealer. Younger. Harder. Just not as hard as his undercover unit. #BattleOfRave

Credits:
Performed by David Morrissey
Written by Danny Brocklehurst
Producer and Director: Gary Brown
Sound Design and Mixing: Steve Brooke
Editor and Executive Producer: Ciaran Tracey

ECSTASY: THE BATTLE OF RAVE - 12. EP6. THE LAST DANCE (320kbs-m4a/90mb/39mins)
BBC Radio 5 Live broadcast: 11th September 2020

Through the illegal parties, gangsters muscled in on supplying the pills. The ravers are now caught in their grip. The police have to move in. The early years of Acid House - its Ecstasy and its lifelong imprint - are left as a memory. #BattleOfRave

Credits:
Presenter: Chris Warburton
Series Producer: Emma Forde
Additional Production: Nicola Dowling and Jane Andrews
Sound Design: Sam Turner
Digital: Eleanor Layhe and Alex Entwistle
Editor and Executive Producer: Ciaran Tracey

ECSTASY: THE BATTLE OF RAVE - 13. BONUS EP: JOHN, DANNY AND CHRIS (320kbs-m4a/78mb/34mins)
BBC Radio 5 Live broadcast: 11th September 2020

How do you change after a life of dealing drugs? Former criminal John Burton is candid about the life he leads now.
Danny Brocklehurst also reflects on writing the dramas and the influence of the Rave years. #BattleOfRave

Credits:
Presenter: Chris Warburton
Series Producer: Emma Forde
Additional Production: Nicola Dowling and Jane Andrews
Sound Design: Sam Turner
Digital: Eleanor Layhe and Alex Entwistle
Editor and Executive Producer: Ciaran Tracey

ECSTASY: THE BATTLE OF RAVE - 14. ACID HOUSE CLASSICS (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 5 Live broadcast: 11th September 2020

Graeme Park mixes an hour of the biggest and best acid house tracks from the 80s and 90s.

Frankie Knuckles (Feat. Jamie Principle) - Your Love (Original Mix)
A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray (Original Mix)
Mr. Fingers - Can You Feel It? (Original 12" Club Mix)
S'Express - Theme From S'Express (Original Mix)
FPI Project - Rich In Paradise (Original Mix)
CeCe Rogers - Someday (Unreleased Remix)
Royal House - Can You Party?
Kraze - The Party (Club Mix)
Kenny "Jammin" Jason (Feat. "Fast" Eddie Smith) - Can U Dance? (Original 12" Version)
Steve "Silk" Hurley - Jack Your Body (Club Mix)
The Todd Terry Project - Back To The Beat
The Night Writers - Let The Music (Use You)
Joe Smooth - Promised Land
Inner City - Good Life (Mayday Club Mix)
Rhythim Is Rhythim - Strings Of Life (Unreleased Mix)

ECSTASY: THE BATTLE OF RAVE - 15. BONUS EP: THE DJS (320kbs-m4a/134mb/59mins)
BBC Radio 5 Live broadcast: 11th September 2020

DJs Paul Oakenfold, Marshall Jefferson, Judge Jules, John Digweed and Dave Clarke share their memories of the Acid House era and the second summer of love.