Countercultural Broadcasting: Urban Pirate Radio
* Ninja Tune head honcho and Coldcut co-pirate Jonathan More returns to the Bureau to talk about his adventures hi-jinxing and hi-jacking the airwaves in the Wild West of South London. * For the seco...
27 Feb 20221h
The Man Who Drilled a Hole in his Head
Cannabis, psilocybin, mescaline and LSD were not enough to fulfil Joey Mellen’s quest to expand his consciousness to the furthest limits 'in search of the miraculous'. So in 1968 he used an electric d...
13 Feb 202258min
A Soundtrack for a City
The last violet seller in Piccadilly Circus, the Canvey Island Oil refinery, the bascule chamber of Tower Bridge, the song of The Muffin Man. In the twelve years before his early death in 2021, Ian Ra...
30 Jan 202254min
The Lives and Times of Michael Moorcock - Part 1
Multi-award winning writer, musician, editor, essayist and inventor of the multiverse, Michael Moorcock, beams into the Bureau for the first episode exploring his deeply countercultural life in litera...
18 Jan 202259min
The Lost World of The Self-Made Record
We revisit the wonderfully odd, lost culture of the coin-operated machines that allowed ordinary people to make a record of their voice long before the advent of tape or digital recording.(Jack White ...
2 Jan 20221h
Ms. Freedom: From Counterculture to Counter-couture
DIANA CRAWSHAW's countercultural journey took her from a small north Yorkshire town to the centre of swinging London and the glamour of St Tropez; from selling, designing and making clothes in 60s Lon...
19 Dec 20211h
The Countercultural World of Iain Sinclair
Writer, film maker, poet, flaneur, metropolitan shaman, curator of lost cultures, beat aficionado, and underground poet Iain Sinclair takes us on a walk through his life in the counterculture. We h...
5 Dec 202159min
Blondie, The Bowery and The Blank Generation
Gary Lachman, the original bass player of Blondie (as Gary Valentine), returns to the Bureau to tell of his time in the New York underground music scene of the 1970s. Now the UK’s foremost writer on...
21 Nov 202159min
