The Sounds of Black Power
*A time when musicians were viewed as revolutionaries and revolutionaries might be considered pop culture icons *Crate digger / rock critc / reissue producer and archivist extraordinaire Pat Thomas ...
28 Huhti 20241h 3min
The Rise and Fall of the '80s Free Festival
*Who do the green roads and wide open spaces of Albion belong to? *This episode is a story is about a collision of two cultures - the counterculture of the twin tribes of urban free party ravers and...
16 Huhti 20241h 7min
Child of the Commune
What was it like to live in a commune? What was it like to grow up in a commune? NANCY THOMPSON came to the Bureau to tell us. She was born in The Shrubb Family Commune - one that was set up in a big ...
31 Maalis 202457min
Liberation Part 2: Glad to be Gay
Being the further adventures of English musician broadcaster and LGTBQ activist TOM ROBINSON, as he gets deeply involved in the gay counterculture of London in the '70s whilst on his journey to having...
17 Maalis 202458min
Liberation Part 1: Coming out in the Counterculture
TOM ROBINSON is an English songwriter who rose to fame in the 70s as an LGBT and anti-racist campaigner. He has released over 20 albums and is an award-winning much-loved broadcaster who has made man...
5 Maalis 20241h
The Beat Goes On: The Sounds of Allen Ginsberg
YOUTH, producer of a huge range of artists (including Kate Bush, Crowded House, The Orb, KLF, The Verve, Guns ’n’ Roses and Primal Scream) and Jesse Goodman of the Allen Ginsberg Estate come to the Bu...
17 Helmi 20241h
London's Lost Street of Song
Britain’s own Tin Pan Alley, Denmark Street was once alive with the sound of hammered pianos, and sung melodies and choruses. Its songwriters knocked out tunes on the fly and rushed to the street to s...
5 Helmi 202459min
Countercultural Libido: A History of 'Perversion'
Warning: this episode contains discussions of sexual and other adult themes. Julie Peakman is a historian of eighteenth-century culture who specialises in the study sexuality and pornography. She is t...
20 Tammi 20241h 6min
