Memories of a Free Festival
"The Sun Machine is Coming Down and We’re Gonna Have a Party" CHRIS TOFU artistic director of Continental Drifts, lies down on the Bureau’s couch for a session of psycho(delic)analysis. We take a ra...
28 Feb 202159min
The Legend, Legacy and Lyrics of Syd Barrett
The story of SYD BARRETT, the doomed original founder of Pink Floyd has fascinated, obsessed and mystified generations of fans for decades. The tragic trajectory of the psychedelic poster boy who ha...
15 Feb 20211h
Soviet Hippies
Forget California, swinging sixties London or the Paris riots for a moment, Estonian filmmaker Terje Toomistu joins us to talk about the hippie movement of the Soviet Union. It had all the characteris...
1 Feb 20211h 1min
The Roxy Club -100 Nights of Punk Madness
45 years ago, two working class South Londoners took over a decrepit seedy gay bar in Neal Street, then a rather desolate and deserted part of central London. At a time when the Sex Pistols’ Anarchy i...
17 Jan 202159min
Days of the Underground: The Life and Times of Hawkwind
Hawkwind: Never in fashion but never out of it, piratical pagan proto-punks, avatars of the underground, figureheads of the free festival scene, innovative heralds of the rave generation, cosmic space...
3 Jan 202159min
The British Folk Underground - with Stephen Duffy
Various musicians have started out in the underground and left it behind for commercial mainstream success. Few have deliberately taken the opposite route back into the counterculture - and rarely as ...
21 Dec 202059min
Which One’s Pink? Managing the Counterculture
One afternoon in the mid 1960s, Pete Jenner left off marking exam papers at the London School of Economics and popped into the Marquee club. There was a band playing, They changed his life - and he ch...
1 Dec 202058min
Rebel Threads: Dressing the Counterculture
ROGER BURTON started out working on a farm and ended up running a Horse Hospital. No, he’s not a vet but has spent most of his life clothing, collecting and curating the counterculture. Along the way...
17 Nov 202059min
