What a life! He costarted the Edinburgh Fringe; founded the alternative culture centre Arts Lab in London, where he mixed with David Bowie, John Lennon and Yoko

What a life! He costarted the Edinburgh Fringe; founded the alternative culture centre Arts Lab in London, where he mixed with David Bowie, John Lennon and Yoko Ono; ran a sexual liberation magazine in Amsterdam, and started Edinburgh's first paperback bookshop ... oh and was a university lecturer. In amongst that, he had a standing open invitation to Sunday night meal. Anyone could come, they just had to email or phone him in advance and leave a donation in an envelope at the door when they arrived. AND he compiled a list of people behind the Iron Curtain who would put up traveller guests and show them around, described in the article as a pre-Internet couchsurfing index.