*The Bureau of Lost Culture broadcast rare, countercultural stories, oral testimonies and tales from the underground.*Join host Stephen Coates and a wide range of guests including musicians, artists, writers, activists and commentators in conversation.*Listen live on London’s premier independent station Soho Radio or via all major podcast providers. The Bureau is collected at The British Library Sound Archive
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Over the last century, the word Shaman has been embraced by artists, hippies, psychonauts and spiritual rebels.
In the 1960s and 70s, shamanism had become a kind of countercultural shorthand for alter...
This is Penny Rimbaud - Part Two (01:02:24)
This is the second part of a conversation with the poet, musician and thinker Penny Rimbaud, co-founder, with Steve Ignorant, of the anarcho-punk band and activist art collective Crass
Crass emerged...
A Supernatural History of the Atlantic (00:59:58)
The sea, its myths, and the supernatural is the theme of this special New Year edition of the Bureau when we leave behind our usual waters to set sail into the past of a very unusual counterculture.
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Tales from the Ambient Underground (00:57:19)
In early 1990s South London — a time when rave culture was mutating and London’s squats were pulsing with creativity, Aphex Twin, Global Communication, Nightmares on Wax, Autechre,Andrea Parker, Scann...
In + Out of Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth - Part 1 (01:00:23)
There are figures in counterculture whose names appear only in the margins of the story — whose influence is eclipsed, overshadowed, even dismissed, by more mythologised personalities.
Alaura O’Dell —...
Geiger-Counterculture: A Journey Through Atomic Albion (01:03:26)
We are on the brink of a new nuclear age - the energy crisis, the push towards net zero and the gargantuan power requirements of AI demand it - or so we are told.
But here in Britain, the old nucl...
The Spell of David Lynch (01:00:33)
When the filmmaker David Lynch died earlier this year, fans created shrines filled with coffee, doughnuts, cigarettes and blue roses; a level of spontaneous mourning more common for dead rock stars or...
This is Penny Rimbaud - Part One (01:00:00)
Penny Rimbaud , who has spent more than half a century living the ideals that most of us only talk about, has been described as an activist philosopher, an anarchist, a Zen Buddhist. Though he would l...
Who Owns The Ground Beneath Our Feet? (00:59:05)
We walk the streets every day — and through parks, across squares and pavements and along beaches, and mountains, over 'The Commons' — without much thought for who really owns them.
These apparently p...
Roots, Radical and Rockers - With Billy Bragg (00:59:59)
As musician and activist BILLY BRAGG makes a welcome return as a voice of countercultural sanity, we revisit the Lost History of Skiffle as he takes us on an extraordinary whirlwind tour through the m...
The Dark Counterculture of British Folk Tradition (00:57:29)
In the old towns and villages of Britain, before the police, before the tabloids, before social media shame-storms, there were other ways to deal with those who stepped outside the rules. Noisy ways. ...
Ghost, Trolls and the Hidden Folk (01:00:15)
Iceland is one of the last remaining Western countries where a substantial proportion of the population believes in the presence of other beings - The Hidden Folk.
For centuries, and until fairly rec...
EVP - Voices From the Other Side (01:00:00)
They called them the voices of the dead. Whispers in the static. Words in the hiss. Messages that—so believers said—slipped through the veil between worlds and onto magnetic tape
The story of Electron...
5000 Years of Queer History (01:01:51)
Amongst its pages, there are many familiar names—Oscar Wilde, Quentisn Crisp, Sappho, James Baldwin, Freddie Mercury — but also many we might not expect: Florence Nightingale, Marlene Dietrich, Cary G...
A Brief History of Nakedness (01:03:31)
What does it mean to be naked, in body or in spirit? Why has human nudity so often been revered, feared, sexualized, or weaponised?
This episode was recorded on July 17 - International Naked Day. Our...
The Bureau meets Aquarium Drunkard (Bonus Episode) (01:01:30)
This is a special edition when The Bureau meets Jason Woodbury of Aquarium Drunkard for a joint transmission.
Los Angeles-based online music magazine Aquarium Drunkard is a one-of-a-kind map to th...
The Forger's Apprentice (01:08:14)
Elmyr De Hory was the greatest art forger of all time.
By the time he was exposed in 1967, it's estimated he had created over 1000 works that had been sold as by Picasso, Modigliani, Matisse, Derand,...
Stonehenge and The Battle of the Beanfield (01:15:04)
The ancient temple of Stonehenge is one of the most famous archaeological sites in the world and one of the most visited sites in the UK.
Yet, despite hundreds of years of archaeological investigat...
The Sonic Explorer of the Psychedelic Frontier (01:00:00)
Doug McKechnie is an unsung pioneer of electronic music, a visionary who traversed the fringes of sound and consciousness at a time when technology, art, and radical thought were colliding to reshape ...
Ibiza and The Meteoric Rise of Club Culture - From Arty to Party (00:59:59)
Sunshine + Love, Beats + Drugs
How did a sleepy island off the coast of Spain, metamorphose from an artistic, countercultural haven into the global epicentre of electronic dance music, lighting the...
The Victorian Freak Show (01:00:07)
The Bearded Lady, Zip the Pinhead, Major Tom Thumb, The Elephant Man, The Hottentot Venus - we delve into one of the more controversial corners of popular entertainment: the world of Victorian freak s...
Becoming Black: A 2-Tone Story (01:00:35)
"I was never going to be a nice little white girl" she says.
Instead, she became an underground star, had hit records with the 2-Tone band The Selector, became a style-icon, an actor, a TV Presenter...
Alan Moore on Magic (00:49:26)
Alan Moore first gained recognition in the 1980s with his work for the comic 2000 AD, and DC Comic's Swamp Thing. He went on to create Watchmen, V for Vendetta, Batman: The Killing Joke, From Hell, an...
Myths of the Magic Mushroom (00:59:15)
The evolutionary leap from ape to human was precipitated by primates eating psychoactive fungi, there is an ancient shamanic lineage of psychedelic plant use in the West, mushrooms have their own cons...
The Myth of Easter Island (01:05:32)
The giant stone heads of the fantastically remote Easter Island have gazed out mysteriously for over a 1000 years, fascinating the world since Dutch sailors came across them in the 18th century.
The...
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