The English Underground with Nick Laird Clowes - Part 2
We return for Part 2 of a trip through the English Underground scene of the 1960s and 1970s led by musician and pied piper Nick Laird Clowes of The Dream Academy. Nick tells of his extraordinary yout...
27 Mai 202156min
The English Underground with Nick Laird Clowes - Part 1
We take a romp through the underground alternative and music scene of the 1960s in the first half of a two part episode. Our guide is musician and Nick Laird Clowes who regales us with stories of runn...
27 Mai 20211h 2min
Tales from The Flamingo Club
Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday Dizzy Gillespie, Rod Stewart, Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Eric Clapton, the Moody Blues, Mick Fleetwood, Pink Floyd, Georgie Fame, Ginger Baker, Long J...
27 Mai 202151min
Comics, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll
He has published Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Robert Crumb, J G Ballard, Hunt Emerson, Eddie Campbell, Brian Bolland, Dave McKean, Martin Rowson and Melinda Gebbie amongst others. His publishing house Kn...
23 Mai 202158min
Blinded by The Light - A Countercultural History of Spectacles
What do Morrissey, Dorothy Parker, Le Corbusier, Harold Lloyd, Janis Joplin, Andy Warhol, Alan Ginsberg, Michael Caine, Gloria Steinem, Buddy Holly, John Lennon, Jarvis Cocker have in common? Like a...
11 Mai 20211h
How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin
Cold War Spy meets The Fab Four in the USSR When Leslie Woodhead was asked by Granada TV to film a new young music group in a club in Liverpool in 1962, he had no idea what he was in for - and neith...
25 Apr 202159min
NICO - You are Beautiful and You are Alone
She was a singer, songwriter, musician, muse, model, actress and artist. She had roles in several films, including Fellini's La Dolce Vita and Andy Warhol's Chelsea Girls, fronted The Velvet Undergrou...
12 Apr 202159min
Skinhead: The Counter-Counterculture
Beatniks, Bootboys, Black GIs; Suedehead, Ska, Subculture; Rude Boys, Reggae, Racism; Football Hooliganism and Fashion. Artist, film maker, writer and activist STEWART HOME comes into the Bureau to...
1 Apr 202159min
