Raving Upon Thames
Soho and Chelsea have always been hailed as the epicentres of swinging London. But there was a third, and now rather forgotten place which gave birth to The Cool - a place that was the home to one o...
8 Nov 202151min
The Art and Craftiness of Sampling
Jon More, one half of cut-and-paste collage kings Coldcut and co-founder with Matt Black of Ninja Tune record label, joins turntablist, crate digger Strictly Kev of DJ Food as we dig deep into the wi...
25 Okt 202159min
The Rise and Fall of the Bootleg Record
The bootleg record was a phenomena that emerged in the heady days of the late 60s and survived to the early 80s - a kind of countercultural entrepreneurial activity that was rendered completely obsole...
12 Okt 202159min
Women Against The Bomb
Forty years ago, in the late summer of 1981, a group of women walked from Wales for over a hundred miles carrying a hand-made banner proclaiming their protest against American nuclear cruise missiles...
4 Okt 202151min
Child of the Counterculture
A Zelig, a holy fool, a trickster, a black magician, a sociopath, a charlatan, a genius, a fabulist, a junkie, an alcoholic, a secret agent, a police informer, a disruptor, an often loveable preacher ...
13 Sep 20211h
William Burroughs and Friends
The ghosts of William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Alan Ginsberg, John Giorno and Bob Cobbing make an appearance at the Bureau - as curator Steve Cleary plays us a selection of super rare recordings fro...
29 Aug 202159min
Stories and Sounds of Central Asia
Bird markets, sacred springs, border crossings, silk weavers, street drummers, games with headless goats, anti-aircraft rockets, courtyard songs and refugee choirs.. Documentary maker Monica Whitloc...
19 Aug 202155min
The Lost World of Pirate Radio - Part One
PIRATE RADIO first erupted in the UK in the early 1960s when stations such as Radio Caroline and Radio London started to broadcast from ships moored offshore or disused WW2 forts in the north sea. The...
2 Aug 20211h
