Sowing the Seeds of Love
*Timothy Leary may have wanted to cause a revolution your head with LSD, The Beatles in your heart with Love, but countercultural activist and entrepreneur CRAIG SAMS went for the Gut. *After bringi...
15 Aug 202253min
The Birth of the Asian Underground
*DJ and broadcaster BOBBY FRICTION drops by the Bureau to tell the tale of how, in the early 90s, a bunch of British kids from immigrant families ripped it up, mixing their traditional musical roots w...
1 Aug 20221h 5min
Alan Moore on Counterculture
*He is widely recognised as one of the best comic book writers in the English language with works like From Hell, Watchmen, V for Vendetta, Killing Joke, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Swam...
18 Juli 202244min
Birth, Death - and Frestonia
The People's Republic of Frestonia, a countercultural micronation, was formed in three streets in North Kensington in the heady years of late seventies London. *Long before the Occupy movement, a gr...
4 Juli 202259min
Women, Sex, Counterculture
The Sexual Revolution? Yes. Liberation? Maybe. Penis Envy? NO! *Youth culture in the sixties was progressive in so many ways but when it came to the relations between the sexes, it was perhaps much ...
20 Juni 202259min
City of the Beast: Aleister Crowley’s London
*We take a creep through dimly lit London streets populated with prostitutes, bohemians, charlatans, junkies, spiritualists, drunkards and lost souls following magician, author, occultist and drug fie...
5 Juni 202257min
On the Farm with Allen Ginsberg
*In 1969, the poet, Beat generation godfather, countercultural guru and political activist ALLEN GINSBERG bought a farm in upstate New York to provide a creative hub and rehab refuge for his friends -...
23 Maj 20221h
Albion Dreaming - A Brief Trip Through the History of British LSD
*Experimental treatment of the insane, secret tests by MI5 with volunteers thinking they were helping find a cure for the common cold, Cold War weapon research by the Ministry of defence on unsuspecti...
9 Maj 20221h
