High Weirdness: Psychedelic Visions in 70s America
‘America’s leading scholar of High Strangeness’ Dr.Erik Davis, enters the Bureau. We hear about Erik’s career charting the highs and lows of counterculture, esoterica and psychedelia in America and me...
16 Sep 20201h 1min
The Secret History of Mescaline
Mike Jay, the UK’s foremost historian of psychoactive plants, joins us to talk about the deeply strange hallucinogen/drug/medicine/sacrament mescaline - a substance derived from the peyote cactus. Wh...
16 Sep 20201h
The Soviet 'Punk Frank Zappa'
We meet with film director Olivia Litchenstein and BBC Russian Arts presenter Alexander Kan to hear about the extraordinary musician Sergey Kuryokhin, ‘the Soviet Punk Frank Zappa’ who with his underg...
14 Sep 20201h 9min
The Invisible Battle of the Cold War Airwaves
This Episode explore three stories of cold war era radio in the USSR: Soviet Radio Jammers, the Russian ‘Woodpecker’ and the Soviet Radio Hooligans We meet with Russian broadcaster Vladimir Raevsky to...
14 Sep 202059min
The Smallest Country in the World
For the first, and probably the last, time the bureau are joined by a member of royalty - Prince Michael of Sealand The Principality of Sealand claims a population of 27, is around 4500 m2 and lies...
14 Sep 202039min
A Short History of Soviet Counterculture
Was counterculture possible in the oppressive, repressive circumstances of the Soviet Union? Join us as we meet with broadcaster, author and cultural commentator Artemyi Troistsky - the 'Russian John ...
13 Sep 20201h 10min
1977 - Year of Punk
We meet with writer Barry Cain, punk correspondent for Record Mirror during the incendiary years 1977 - 1979. Barry tells of his London journey from a Kings Cross council estate to touring with the Se...
13 Sep 20201h
Drugs, Doctors and Rock 'n Roll
In this episode, we meet with radical doctor Sam Hutt who ministered to countercultural London in the 1960s and with Hank Wangford, English Country and Western singer par excellence. Sam tells us abou...
13 Sep 20201h 4min
