William Burroughs and Friends
The ghosts of William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Alan Ginsberg, John Giorno and Bob Cobbing make an appearance at the Bureau - as curator Steve Cleary plays us a selection of super rare recordings fro...
29 Aug 202159min
Stories and Sounds of Central Asia
Bird markets, sacred springs, border crossings, silk weavers, street drummers, games with headless goats, anti-aircraft rockets, courtyard songs and refugee choirs.. Documentary maker Monica Whitloc...
19 Aug 202155min
The Lost World of Pirate Radio - Part One
PIRATE RADIO first erupted in the UK in the early 1960s when stations such as Radio Caroline and Radio London started to broadcast from ships moored offshore or disused WW2 forts in the north sea. The...
2 Aug 20211h
The Acid Techno Squat Party
In these days of constantly CCTV-surveilled, property over-developed London patrolled by health and safety wonks and paranoid private security forces, the wild world of the inner city squat party seem...
19 Juli 202158min
Cancelled! The Counterculture of Ideas
Forbidden! Taboo! Shouldn’t be allowed! Do you ever find yourself censoring yourself? Not saying quite what you think, feel or believe in case it is disapproved of? Human rights lawyer ERIC BERKOW...
6 Juli 202159min
The Life and Times of a Foreign Correspondent
The Cold War is ending, the Soviet Empire is crumbling. In Central Asia, new countries are being born - or built - in the ruins: Kazakstan, Krygystan, Tajakstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan. Allegiance...
22 Juni 202159min
London’s Lost World of Yiddisher Jazz
London’s East End and Soho were the centres of a unique musical culture in the years between the 20s and the 50s. Award wining oral historian and radio producer ALAN DEIN returns to the Bureau to te...
7 Juni 20211h
The UFO Club
Journalist and counterculture commentator Peter Watts joins us to talk about The UFO Club, the massively influential short-lived London club of the late 1960s established by Joe Boyd and John "Hoppy” ...
27 Maj 20211h
