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 Apr 56min
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 Mar 1h 2min
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 Mar 59min
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 Feb 56min
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 Feb 57min
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 Jan 1h 2min
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 Jan 59min
Tales from the Ambient Underground
In early 1990s South London — a time when rave culture was mutating and London’s squats were pulsing with creativity, Aphex Twin, Global Communication, Nightmares on Wax, Autechre,Andrea Parker, Scann...
21 Des 202557min
