High Society - Mind-Altering Drugs in History and Culture
*Every society is a high society. Getting high has been a pursuit of civilisations throughout time. *Every day, people drink coffee in European cafes, chew betel nut in Indonesian markets, nibble c...
29 Sep 20241h 4min
The Underworld
“Imagination thrives in darkness” We talk about The Undergound often at the Bureau - not London’s subterranean rail sytem, but the countercultural alternative society of the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s...
16 Sep 202452min
Dope Girls - The Birth of the British Drug Underground
*In 1918, Billie Carleton, a West End actress, came off stage, went partying with friends, returned to her flat and was found dead the next morning - apparently of a cocaine overdose. A few years late...
1 Sep 202458min
Rubin and The Yippies
In 1964 he was a working class hippie student crossing Haight Street, a road in San Francscso, when hit by a vision - and life as he knew it was over In 1994, he was a multi-millionaire new-age entre...
17 Aug 20241h 5min
The Strange and Beautiful World of Arthur Russell
When musician ARTHUR RUSSELL died in 1992, at age 40, of complications related to HIV-AIDS, he was an obscure figure — though a legend in the 70s and 80s underground music scenes at downtown New York ...
7 Aug 202457min
Forward the Revolution - with Spiral Tribe
They helped inspire a whole generation of young ravers and lit the fuse for what was to blow up with Technival and Burning Man - as well as more mainstream festivals across Europe and the US - but the...
28 Jul 20241h 4min
Dreaming of Ancient Gods
*Whatever happened to the Greek Gods? if you are a teenager living half way up a 1970s tower block listening to Drill, should you even care? *On this epside we travel in time and space to Ancient Gree...
10 Jul 202459min
The Queer Life of Pop - with Jon Savage
How Queer Culture Shaped Pop Culture "The 1972 version of David Bowie didn’t spring from nowhere. Although he refused to affiliate himself explicitly with gay liberation, he had found both artistic a...
26 Jun 20241h 8min
