*The Bureau of Lost Culture broadcast curious, rare, half-forgotten, half-remembered countercultural stories, oral histories and tales from the underground. *Join host Stephen Coates and a wide range of guests including musicians, writers and cultural commentators like Billy Bragg, Lisa Law, Michael Moorcock, Alan Moore, Jill Drower, Peter Coyote and Johnny Marr in conversation. *Listen live on Saturdays at 9.00am on London’s premier independent station Soho Radio or via catch-up on all major podcast providers: *The Bureau is now collected at The British Library Sound Archive
Episodes
Monday May 09, 2022
Albion Dreaming - A Brief Trip Through the History of British LSD
Monday May 09, 2022
Monday May 09, 2022
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Sunday Apr 24, 2022
On the Road ... with Johnny Marr
Sunday Apr 24, 2022
Sunday Apr 24, 2022
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Monday Apr 11, 2022
The Life and Times of Dubmeister Dennis Bovell
Monday Apr 11, 2022
Monday Apr 11, 2022
* Now he’s a DJ, multi-instrumentalist and producer of hundreds of records spanning reggae, lovers rock, soul, dub, punk and pop.
* He's even got an MBE.
* We dig into all that - or as much as we can - plus Hendrix, sound systems, cutting dub plates, sound clashes with Lee Scratch Perry, police harrasment, wrongful imprisonment and the youthful joys of eating breadfruit on the beach.
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Monday Mar 28, 2022
The Exploding Galaxy
Monday Mar 28, 2022
Monday Mar 28, 2022
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Sunday Mar 13, 2022
A Countercultural History of Camden Town
Sunday Mar 13, 2022
Sunday Mar 13, 2022
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Sunday Feb 27, 2022
Countercultural Broadcasting: Urban Pirate Radio
Sunday Feb 27, 2022
Sunday Feb 27, 2022
* Ninja Tune head honcho and Coldcut co-pirate Jonathan More returns to the Bureau to talk about his adventures hi-jinxing and hi-jacking the airwaves in the Wild West of South London.
* For the second in our trilogy on illicit broadcasting, we hear tales of DJ derring-do during the birth Of Kiss Fm, once one of the coolest of the urban pirate radio stations and its transition to the commercial mainstream.
* And in the mix, we debate how the mainstream is dependent on the underground, the culture feeds on the counterculture, and along the way go crate-digging into how Jon caught the disease of collecting vinyl, putting on warehouse parties, life-changing meetings in London taxis, pirate TV, Coldcut's Solid Steel show - and nuclear power station ephemera..
* For Jon and Coldcut http://coldcut.net
* Jon’s Soho Radio show Out to Lunch https://sohoradiolondon.com/profile/jon-more/
Thanks for audio samples and info:
* DJ Food https://www.djfood.org/
* The Pirate Radio Archive https://www.thepiratearchive.net/
* AMFM.0rg https://www.amfm.org.uk/
* Death is Not the End https://deathisnot.bandcamp.com/album/london-pirate-radio-adverts-1984-1993-vol-1
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Sunday Feb 13, 2022
The Man Who Drilled a Hole in his Head
Sunday Feb 13, 2022
Sunday Feb 13, 2022
Sunday Jan 30, 2022
A Soundtrack for a City
Sunday Jan 30, 2022
Sunday Jan 30, 2022
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Tuesday Jan 18, 2022
The Lives and Times of Michael Moorcock - Part 1
Tuesday Jan 18, 2022
Tuesday Jan 18, 2022
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Sunday Jan 02, 2022
The Lost World of The Self-Made Record
Sunday Jan 02, 2022
Sunday Jan 02, 2022
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Image courtesy Museum of London
Sunday Dec 19, 2021
Ms. Freedom: From Counterculture to Counter-couture
Sunday Dec 19, 2021
Sunday Dec 19, 2021
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Sunday Dec 05, 2021
The Countercultural World of Iain Sinclair
Sunday Dec 05, 2021
Sunday Dec 05, 2021
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Sunday Nov 21, 2021
Blondie, The Bowery and The Blank Generation
Sunday Nov 21, 2021
Sunday Nov 21, 2021
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Monday Nov 08, 2021
Raving Upon Thames
Monday Nov 08, 2021
Monday Nov 08, 2021
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Monday Oct 25, 2021
The Art and Craftiness of Sampling
Monday Oct 25, 2021
Monday Oct 25, 2021
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Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
The Rise and Fall of the Bootleg Record
Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
In this episode (a reboot of a Soho Radio show from 2018), we are joined by cultural commentator and lover of all things vinyl, Travis Elborough, to dig deep into the wild world of the dodgy pirates, counterfeits, unsanctioned outtakes, demos and live recordings that included the music of artists from Judy Garland through to the Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan and from The Sex Pistols and Television and to Elliot Smith.
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Monday Oct 04, 2021
Women Against The Bomb
Monday Oct 04, 2021
Monday Oct 04, 2021
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 that were to be sationed in the UK. Their march to the US military base at Greenham Common led to the establishment of a camp that, for nearly two decades, drew women from all over the world to make their voices heard in the name of peace - and inspired fellow protestors internationally
Artist, activist and banner maker Thalia Cambpell one of the original marchers and founders of the camp, visits the Bureau to tell tales of dancing on nuclear silos, clashes with the authorities and the creation of vibrant protest art amongst the mud and mayhem.
And we are joined by historian Charlotte Dew, author of 'Women For Peace: Banners From Greenham Common’, a book published to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the protests that presents image of the amazing banners made by Thalia and her fellows celebrating the collective power of women, women’s art and the history of peace campaigning.
For more on the book, the banners and the bomb
www.fourcornersbooks.co.uk/books/women-for-peace-banners-from-greenham-common/
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Monday Sep 13, 2021
Child of the Counterculture
Monday Sep 13, 2021
Monday Sep 13, 2021
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 of Love who didn't actually seem to know what it meant?
LSD evangelist Michael Hollingshead might or might not have been all of these, but he was certainly a father.
What is it like to be the child of such a person?
Comedian Vanessa Hollingshead and writer Jeannie Hilton tell the dark and intense story of Vanessa’s tumultuous life with Michael, the working class Englishman who, according to his own claim, 'turned on the world' - or at least, many of those who did - including Timothy Leary and The Beatles - and who, like many who have advocated universal love and cosmic enlightenment, led a tragic and toxic personal life.
It's a wild and crazy trip, at times funny, at times disturbing. Be warned!
To find out more about The Divine Rascal film project
www.thedivinerascal.com
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Sunday Aug 29, 2021
William Burroughs and Friends
Sunday Aug 29, 2021
Sunday Aug 29, 2021
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Thursday Aug 19, 2021
Stories and Sounds of Central Asia
Thursday Aug 19, 2021
Thursday Aug 19, 2021
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Monday Aug 02, 2021
The Lost World of Pirate Radio - Part One
Monday Aug 02, 2021
Monday Aug 02, 2021
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. They were set up by wildcat entrepreneurs and music enthusiasts to meet the growing demand for the pop, rock and underground music not catered for by the BBC who had a monopoly on the airwaves.
Music writer ROB CHAPMAN returns to the Bureau to tell the story of this first golden age of illicit broadcasting. We hear of the extraordinary life of pirate-in-chief Ronan O’Rahilly anarchist founder of Radio Caroline, of legendary broadcaster John Peel and his ground breaking show ‘The Perfumed Garden’, and of the oddities of life aboard the radio ships precariously sailing the airwaves.
Initially, the stations got round the law because they were broadcasting from international waters to delighted young people across the country before they ran foul of the authorities and were shut down in 1967. But their impact lived on: the government caved into youth demand for pop music with the creation of Radio 1 and many of the pirate radio DJs including Tony Blackburn, Kenny Everett, Johnnie Walker, Emperor Rosko went on to mainstream success with the BBC and commercial stations of the seventies and beyond.
For more on Rob
http://www.rob-chapman.com
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Monday Jul 19, 2021
The Acid Techno Squat Party
Monday Jul 19, 2021
Monday Jul 19, 2021
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Tuesday Jul 06, 2021
Cancelled! The Counterculture of Ideas
Tuesday Jul 06, 2021
Tuesday Jul 06, 2021
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Tuesday Jun 22, 2021
The Life and Times of a Foreign Correspondent
Tuesday Jun 22, 2021
Tuesday Jun 22, 2021
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Monday Jun 07, 2021
London’s Lost World of Yiddisher Jazz
Monday Jun 07, 2021
Monday Jun 07, 2021
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Thursday May 27, 2021
The UFO Club
Thursday May 27, 2021
Thursday May 27, 2021
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” Hopkins.
It featured light shows, poetry readings, avant-garde art by Yoko Ono and many rock acts (Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Procul Harem) who later became massive.
For a brief two year period, it acted as the epicentre of the whirligig of summer of love underground London with a 'who's who of the counterculture' guest list and set the standards for psychedelic fashion and design.
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Thursday May 27, 2021
The English Underground with Nick Laird Clowes - Part 2
Thursday May 27, 2021
Thursday May 27, 2021
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 youth deeply immersed in the political, musical and alternative scenes of West London. We hear about meeting Iggy Pop in a toilet, Nick Drake's guitar, the demise of Syd Barrett and dinner with Andy Warhol amongst many other terrific tales of living the countercultural life.
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For more on Nick
www.nicklairdclowes.com
Thursday May 27, 2021
The English Underground with Nick Laird Clowes - Part 1
Thursday May 27, 2021
Thursday May 27, 2021
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 running away to the Isle of Wight festival, dj-ing at The Roundhouse, meeting John Lennon amongst many countercultural characters of the day and much, much more.
All this before an age when most of us had even smoked a cigarette - and all before his days of pop stardom with The Dream Academy.
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For more on Nick
https://www.nicklairdclowes.com
Thursday May 27, 2021
Tales from The Flamingo Club
Thursday May 27, 2021
Thursday May 27, 2021
Sunday May 23, 2021
Comics, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll
Sunday May 23, 2021
Sunday May 23, 2021
He has published Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Robert Crumb, J G Ballard, Hunt Emerson, Eddie Campbell, Brian Bolland, Dave McKean, Martin Rowson and Melinda Gebbie amongst others.
His publishing house Knockabout Comics has put out books on marijuana, magic mushrooms and many other aspects of alternative living from West Wales to Ladbroke Grove. And he's fought the law (though the law has frequently won).
With special guest DJ Food / Kev Foakes, we flick through the pages of the countercultural life of Tony Bennett hearing tales from the wild world of underground publishing, radical bookshops, obscenity trials, censorship, customs busts - and, of course a crazy cornucopia of comics, including Gilbert Shelton’s hippy-slacker masterwork The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers.
For more on Tony and Knockabout Comics
https://www.knockaboutcomics.com
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Tuesday May 11, 2021
Blinded by The Light - A Countercultural History of Spectacles
Tuesday May 11, 2021
Tuesday May 11, 2021
Sunday Apr 25, 2021
How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin
Sunday Apr 25, 2021
Sunday Apr 25, 2021
Monday Apr 12, 2021
NICO - You are Beautiful and You are Alone
Monday Apr 12, 2021
Monday Apr 12, 2021
Thursday Apr 01, 2021
Skinhead: The Counter-Counterculture
Thursday Apr 01, 2021
Thursday Apr 01, 2021
Sunday Feb 28, 2021
Memories of a Free Festival
Sunday Feb 28, 2021
Sunday Feb 28, 2021
The image is courtesy the incomparable ALAN LODGE
To see his extraordinary archive of images of festivals and alternative culture: www.alanlodge.co.uk
Monday Feb 15, 2021
The Legend, Legacy and Lyrics of Syd Barrett
Monday Feb 15, 2021
Monday Feb 15, 2021
Tuesday Feb 02, 2021
The Lost History of Skiffle - with Billy Bragg
Tuesday Feb 02, 2021
Tuesday Feb 02, 2021
Monday Feb 01, 2021
Soviet Hippies
Monday Feb 01, 2021
Monday Feb 01, 2021
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 characteristics of Western hippiedom: long hair, groovy music, esoteric spirituality and drugs. The only thing missing perhaps was the radical public politics that would have pushed the repressive Soviet authorities into drastic, brutal action
Terji’s film, with its super groovy soundtrack of rare tunes, provides a fascinating glimpse into a moving, daring subculture that flourished east of the Iron Curtain.
More about the Soviet Hippies film and Terje www.soviethippies.com
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Sunday Jan 17, 2021
The Roxy Club -100 Nights of Punk Madness
Sunday Jan 17, 2021
Sunday Jan 17, 2021
Sunday Jan 03, 2021
Days of the Underground: The Life and Times of Hawkwind
Sunday Jan 03, 2021
Sunday Jan 03, 2021
Monday Dec 21, 2020
The British Folk Underground - with Stephen Duffy
Monday Dec 21, 2020
Monday Dec 21, 2020
Tuesday Dec 01, 2020
Which One’s Pink? Managing the Counterculture
Tuesday Dec 01, 2020
Tuesday Dec 01, 2020
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
Rebel Threads: Dressing the Counterculture
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
Sunday Nov 01, 2020
Days in the Life: The Language of Counterculture
Sunday Nov 01, 2020
Sunday Nov 01, 2020
Monday Oct 19, 2020
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London: The Films of Peter Whitehead
Monday Oct 19, 2020
Monday Oct 19, 2020
Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
The Mysteries of T. C. Lethbridge
Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Helter Skelter: Charles Manson and the CIA
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
The Divine Rascal - Hollingshead Pt.2
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Wednesday Sep 16, 2020
The Man Who Turned On the World - Hollingshead Pt.1
Wednesday Sep 16, 2020
Wednesday Sep 16, 2020
Wednesday Sep 16, 2020
Barney Bubbles: Designing the Counterculture
Wednesday Sep 16, 2020
Wednesday Sep 16, 2020
Bureau of Lost Culture at the Hay Festival