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
The English Underground with Nick Laird Clowes - Part 2
We return for Part 2 of a trip through the English Underground scene of the 1960s and 1970s led by musician and pied piper Nick Laird Clowes of The Dream Academy. Nick tells of his extraordinary yout...
27 Maj 202156min
The English Underground with Nick Laird Clowes - Part 1
We take a romp through the underground alternative and music scene of the 1960s in the first half of a two part episode. Our guide is musician and Nick Laird Clowes who regales us with stories of runn...
27 Maj 20211h 2min
Tales from The Flamingo Club
Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday Dizzy Gillespie, Rod Stewart, Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Eric Clapton, the Moody Blues, Mick Fleetwood, Pink Floyd, Georgie Fame, Ginger Baker, Long J...
27 Maj 202151min
