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
Raving Upon Thames
Soho and Chelsea have always been hailed as the epicentres of swinging London. But there was a third, and now rather forgotten place which gave birth to The Cool - a place that was the home to one o...
8 Nov 202151min
The Art and Craftiness of Sampling
Jon More, one half of cut-and-paste collage kings Coldcut and co-founder with Matt Black of Ninja Tune record label, joins turntablist, crate digger Strictly Kev of DJ Food as we dig deep into the wi...
25 Okt 202159min
The Rise and Fall of the Bootleg Record
The bootleg record was a phenomena that emerged in the heady days of the late 60s and survived to the early 80s - a kind of countercultural entrepreneurial activity that was rendered completely obsole...
12 Okt 202159min
Women Against The Bomb
Forty years ago, in the late summer of 1981, a group of women walked from Wales for over a hundred miles carrying a hand-made banner proclaiming their protest against American nuclear cruise missiles...
4 Okt 202151min
Child of the Counterculture
A Zelig, a holy fool, a trickster, a black magician, a sociopath, a charlatan, a genius, a fabulist, a junkie, an alcoholic, a secret agent, a police informer, a disruptor, an often loveable preacher ...
13 Sep 20211h
