Bureau of Lost Culture

Bureau of Lost Culture

*The Bureau of Lost Culture broadcast rare, countercultural stories, oral testimonies and tales from the underground.

*Join host Stephen Coates and a wide range of guests, including musicians, artists, writers, activists and commentators in conversation.

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The Bureau is collected at The British Library Sound Archive

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21st Century Mutoid Man: Joe Rush - Part 2

21st Century Mutoid Man: Joe Rush - Part 2

This is the second part of our conversation with Joe Rush, the initiator, mentor, and driving force behind The Mutoid Waste Company, that extraordinary countercultural endeavour to turn the waste of o...

18 Huhti 1h 2min

Sex - Men - War

Sex - Men - War

Beyond the official story, the myth, of the Second World War — its maps and medals, courage and sacrifice — there is another hidden narrative. Written in rare memoirs, or in letters and diaries never ...

2 Huhti 56min

20th Century Mutoid Man: Joe Rush - Part 1

20th Century Mutoid Man: Joe Rush - Part 1

If you had been at the Glastonbury Festival in 1987,  you may have seen a familiar silhouette emerging in the dawn light  - upright monoliths arranged in a circle. Was it Stonehenge - magically transf...

17 Maalis 1h 2min

The Library of Lost Maps

The Library of Lost Maps

In the heart of London’s Bloomsbury, behind a scruffy turquoise door, the world lies folded into drawers. Here are maps that survived wars, regimes, and revolutions — not because they were valued, but...

3 Maalis 59min

In + Out of Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth - Part 2

In + Out of Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth - Part 2

This is the second part of a conversation with Alaura O’Dell / Mistress Mix, formerly known as Paula P-Orridge. In the first part, we traced Alaura’s journey from meeting the musician and cultural pr...

17 Helmi 56min

What is a Shaman?

What is a Shaman?

Over the last century, the word Shaman has been embraced by artists, hippies, psychonauts and spiritual rebels. In the 1960s and 70s, shamanism had become a kind of countercultural shorthand for alter...

3 Helmi 57min

This is Penny Rimbaud - Part Two

This is Penny Rimbaud - Part Two

This is the second part of a conversation with the poet, musician and thinker Penny Rimbaud, co-founder, with Steve Ignorant, of the anarcho-punk band and activist art collective Crass   Crass emerged...

19 Tammi 1h 2min

A Supernatural History of the Atlantic

A Supernatural History of the Atlantic

The sea, its myths, and the supernatural is the theme of this special New Year edition of the Bureau when we leave behind our usual waters to set sail into the past of a very unusual counterculture.  ...

6 Tammi 59min

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