Helter Skelter: Charles Manson and the CIA
Journalist Tom O Neill, author of 'Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties’, joins us to reveal the truths, untruths, secrets and conspiracies behind the most famous crime...
7 Okt 202058min
The Divine Rascal - Hollingshead Pt.2
We return for the second part of our trip through the terrific, tortuous and terrible times of Michael Hollings(acid)head with psychedelic historian Andy Roberts. We reconnect with Hollingshead as ...
7 Okt 202055min
The Man Who Turned On the World - Hollingshead Pt.1
In the first of an occasional series of broadcasts around the subject of LSD, psychedelic historian Andy Roberts takes us on the first part of a trip through the extraordinary life and times of Michae...
16 Sep 202059min
Barney Bubbles: Designing the Counterculture
Writer and cultural commentator Paul Gorman takes us on an exploration of the countercultural designer Barney Bubbles. It is an extraordinary story, magic and tragic by turn. Bubbles, who, despite h...
16 Sep 202055min
Arthur Machen and The London Labyrinth
Enter the labyrinth. Perambulator and psycho-geographer Robert Kingham leads us down the twisting, turning tunnels and lost highways of the London labyrinth to meet author, mystic and cockney visionar...
16 Sep 20201h
High Weirdness: Psychedelic Visions in 70s America
‘America’s leading scholar of High Strangeness’ Dr.Erik Davis, enters the Bureau. We hear about Erik’s career charting the highs and lows of counterculture, esoterica and psychedelia in America and me...
16 Sep 20201h 1min
The Secret History of Mescaline
Mike Jay, the UK’s foremost historian of psychoactive plants, joins us to talk about the deeply strange hallucinogen/drug/medicine/sacrament mescaline - a substance derived from the peyote cactus. Wh...
16 Sep 20201h
The Soviet 'Punk Frank Zappa'
We meet with film director Olivia Litchenstein and BBC Russian Arts presenter Alexander Kan to hear about the extraordinary musician Sergey Kuryokhin, ‘the Soviet Punk Frank Zappa’ who with his underg...
14 Sep 20201h 9min
