Bureau of Lost Culture
Broadcasting rare, countercultural stories, oral testimonies and tales from the underground.
Bureau of Lost Culture
Broadcasting rare, countercultural stories, oral testimonies and tales from the underground.
About Bureau of Lost Culture
Broadcasting rare, countercultural stories, oral testimonies and tales from the underground.
The Bureau of Lost Culture broadcast rare, countercultural stories, oral testimonies and tales from the underground.<br /><br /> Host Stephen Coates is joined by a wide range of guests, including musicians, artists, writers, activists and commentators in conversation.<strong>
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Recent Episodes
The Revolutionsts: How The Counterculture Turned to Terror
Bureau of Lost Culture • May 6, 2026
21st Century Mutoid Man: Joe Rush - Part 2
Bureau of Lost Culture • Apr 18, 2026
Sex - Men - War
Bureau of Lost Culture • Apr 2, 2026
20th Century Mutoid Man: Joe Rush - Part 1
Bureau of Lost Culture • Mar 17, 2026
The Library of Lost Maps
Bureau of Lost Culture • Mar 3, 2026
In + Out of Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth - Part 2
Bureau of Lost Culture • Feb 17, 2026
What is a Shaman?
Bureau of Lost Culture • Feb 3, 2026
This is Penny Rimbaud - Part Two
Bureau of Lost Culture • Jan 19, 2026
A Supernatural History of the Atlantic
Bureau of Lost Culture • Jan 6, 2026
Tales from the Ambient Underground
Bureau of Lost Culture • Dec 21, 2025
In + Out of Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth - Part 1
Bureau of Lost Culture • Dec 10, 2025
Geiger-Counterculture: A Journey Through Atomic Albion
Bureau of Lost Culture • Nov 25, 2025
The Spell of David Lynch
Bureau of Lost Culture • Nov 12, 2025
This is Penny Rimbaud - Part One
Bureau of Lost Culture • Oct 29, 2025
Who Owns The Ground Beneath Our Feet?
Bureau of Lost Culture • Oct 14, 2025
Roots, Radical and Rockers - With Billy Bragg
Bureau of Lost Culture • Oct 3, 2025
The Dark Counterculture of British Folk Tradition
Bureau of Lost Culture • Sep 16, 2025
Ghost, Trolls and the Hidden Folk
Bureau of Lost Culture • Sep 1, 2025
EVP - Voices From the Other Side
Bureau of Lost Culture • Aug 18, 2025
5000 Years of Queer History
Bureau of Lost Culture • Aug 5, 2025
A Brief History of Nakedness
Bureau of Lost Culture • Jul 22, 2025
The Bureau meets Aquarium Drunkard (Bonus Episode)
Bureau of Lost Culture • Jul 6, 2025
The Forger's Apprentice
Bureau of Lost Culture • Jun 23, 2025
Stonehenge and The Battle of the Beanfield
Bureau of Lost Culture • Jun 9, 2025
The Sonic Explorer of the Psychedelic Frontier
Bureau of Lost Culture • May 25, 2025
Ibiza and The Meteoric Rise of Club Culture - From Arty to Party
Bureau of Lost Culture • May 11, 2025
The Victorian Freak Show
Bureau of Lost Culture • Apr 27, 2025
Becoming Black: A 2-Tone Story
Bureau of Lost Culture • Apr 16, 2025
Alan Moore on Magic
Bureau of Lost Culture • Apr 1, 2025
Myths of the Magic Mushroom
Bureau of Lost Culture • Mar 17, 2025
The Myth of Easter Island
Bureau of Lost Culture • Mar 3, 2025
Burroughs, Bowles and The Tangier Interzone
Bureau of Lost Culture • Feb 20, 2025
The Birth of British Youth Culture
Bureau of Lost Culture • Feb 1, 2025
Soho Night + Day
Bureau of Lost Culture • Jan 21, 2025
Spirit, Soul and Rock 'n' Roll - with Mike Scott
Bureau of Lost Culture • Jan 7, 2025
The Boy Who Became a Girl
Bureau of Lost Culture • Dec 24, 2024
The Man Who Burns Money
Bureau of Lost Culture • Dec 8, 2024
The Return of the Mystic
Bureau of Lost Culture • Nov 27, 2024
The Cut Up Life of Genesis P-Orridge
Bureau of Lost Culture • Nov 12, 2024
Growing Up in the Fallout of the Utopian Dream
Bureau of Lost Culture • Oct 28, 2024
The Man Who Wrote the Joy of Sex
Bureau of Lost Culture • Oct 15, 2024
High Society - Mind-Altering Drugs in History and Culture
Bureau of Lost Culture • Sep 29, 2024
The Underworld
Bureau of Lost Culture • Sep 16, 2024
Dope Girls - The Birth of the British Drug Underground
Bureau of Lost Culture • Sep 1, 2024
Rubin and The Yippies
Bureau of Lost Culture • Aug 17, 2024
The Strange and Beautiful World of Arthur Russell
Bureau of Lost Culture • Aug 7, 2024
Forward the Revolution - with Spiral Tribe
Bureau of Lost Culture • Jul 28, 2024
Dreaming of Ancient Gods
Bureau of Lost Culture • Jul 10, 2024
The Queer Life of Pop - with Jon Savage
Bureau of Lost Culture • Jun 26, 2024
Angels on Haight Ashbury
Bureau of Lost Culture • Jun 9, 2024
Post-Punk Druidry - with Youth
Bureau of Lost Culture • May 28, 2024
The Women at the Heart of Britain's Biggest Acid Bust
Bureau of Lost Culture • May 14, 2024
The Sounds of Black Power
Bureau of Lost Culture • Apr 28, 2024
The Rise and Fall of the '80s Free Festival
Bureau of Lost Culture • Apr 16, 2024
Child of the Commune
Bureau of Lost Culture • Mar 31, 2024
Liberation Part 2: Glad to be Gay
Bureau of Lost Culture • Mar 17, 2024
Liberation Part 1: Coming out in the Counterculture
Bureau of Lost Culture • Mar 5, 2024
The Beat Goes On: The Sounds of Allen Ginsberg
Bureau of Lost Culture • Feb 17, 2024
London's Lost Street of Song
Bureau of Lost Culture • Feb 5, 2024
Countercultural Libido: A History of 'Perversion'
Bureau of Lost Culture • Jan 20, 2024
The Incredible String Band Part 2: Inside Looking Out
Bureau of Lost Culture • Jan 8, 2024
The Incredible String Band - Part 1: Outside Looking In
Bureau of Lost Culture • Dec 25, 2023
In the ’60s: The Birth of the British Underground
Bureau of Lost Culture • Dec 11, 2023
How to Expand Your Consciousness Part 3: The Dreaming
Bureau of Lost Culture • Nov 27, 2023
Remembering the Crazy Diamond
Bureau of Lost Culture • Nov 11, 2023
How To Expand Your Consciousness Part 2: Tripping
Bureau of Lost Culture • Oct 31, 2023
Songs of War and Peace - with Boris Grebenshikov
Bureau of Lost Culture • Oct 16, 2023
Riding The Oblivion Express - with Brian Auger
Bureau of Lost Culture • Oct 2, 2023
The Soho Bibles: The Secret Porn of Post-War London
Bureau of Lost Culture • Sep 18, 2023
How to Expand Your Consciousness Part 1: Philosophy
Bureau of Lost Culture • Sep 3, 2023
The Music of the Cults
Bureau of Lost Culture • Aug 20, 2023
Rock, Radicals and Racism
Bureau of Lost Culture • Aug 6, 2023
So You Say You Want a (Sexual) Revolution?
Bureau of Lost Culture • Jul 23, 2023
Knocking On Heaven’s Door
Bureau of Lost Culture • Jul 9, 2023
A Short History of The Pagan
Bureau of Lost Culture • Jun 25, 2023
The ’4000 Year Old Rock ’n’ Roll Band’
Bureau of Lost Culture • Jun 11, 2023
The Life and Psychedelic Times of the 13th Floor Elevators
Bureau of Lost Culture • May 27, 2023
The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift
Bureau of Lost Culture • May 14, 2023
The Secret History of Psychonauts
Bureau of Lost Culture • Apr 30, 2023
The Vision Collectors
Bureau of Lost Culture • Apr 16, 2023
Moss Side Story - with Barry Adamson
Bureau of Lost Culture • Apr 1, 2023
The Life and Times of Peter Coyote 2: Buddhism in Babylon
Bureau of Lost Culture • Mar 19, 2023
The Life and Times of Peter Coyote 1: Diggers to Dharma Bums
Bureau of Lost Culture • Mar 6, 2023
The Divided Self of R.D. Laing
Bureau of Lost Culture • Feb 18, 2023
The Lost World of Cambodian Rock ’n’ Roll
Bureau of Lost Culture • Feb 7, 2023
Flashing on the Sixties Part 2
Bureau of Lost Culture • Jan 22, 2023
Flashing On the Sixties: Part 1
Bureau of Lost Culture • Jan 8, 2023
La Rocka! The Life and Looks of Lloyd Johnson
Bureau of Lost Culture • Dec 18, 2022
Roentgenizdat - The Hidden History of Bone Music
Bureau of Lost Culture • Dec 4, 2022
Punk, Porn and Performance
Bureau of Lost Culture • Nov 20, 2022
Tripping the Light Fantastic
Bureau of Lost Culture • Nov 6, 2022
The Last of the Merry Pranksters
Bureau of Lost Culture • Oct 24, 2022
The Lost Tarot Deck of Austin Osman Spare
Bureau of Lost Culture • Oct 10, 2022
The Cabaret of the Nameless
Bureau of Lost Culture • Sep 25, 2022
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Bureau of Lost Culture • Sep 12, 2022
The Low Down LA Life of Tom Waits
Bureau of Lost Culture • Aug 29, 2022
Sowing the Seeds of Love
Bureau of Lost Culture • Aug 15, 2022
The Birth of the Asian Underground
Bureau of Lost Culture • Aug 1, 2022
Alan Moore on Counterculture
Bureau of Lost Culture • Jul 18, 2022
Birth, Death - and Frestonia
Bureau of Lost Culture • Jul 4, 2022
Women, Sex, Counterculture
Bureau of Lost Culture • Jun 20, 2022
City of the Beast: Aleister Crowley’s London
Bureau of Lost Culture • Jun 5, 2022
On the Farm with Allen Ginsberg
Bureau of Lost Culture • May 23, 2022
Albion Dreaming - A Brief Trip Through the History of British LSD
Bureau of Lost Culture • May 9, 2022
On the Road ... with Johnny Marr
Bureau of Lost Culture • Apr 24, 2022
The Life and Times of Dubmeister Dennis Bovell
Bureau of Lost Culture • Apr 11, 2022
The Exploding Galaxy
Bureau of Lost Culture • Mar 28, 2022
A Countercultural History of Camden Town
Bureau of Lost Culture • Mar 13, 2022
Countercultural Broadcasting: Urban Pirate Radio
Bureau of Lost Culture • Feb 27, 2022
The Man Who Drilled a Hole in his Head
Bureau of Lost Culture • Feb 13, 2022
A Soundtrack for a City
Bureau of Lost Culture • Jan 30, 2022
The Lives and Times of Michael Moorcock - Part 1
Bureau of Lost Culture • Jan 18, 2022
The Lost World of The Self-Made Record
Bureau of Lost Culture • Jan 2, 2022
Ms. Freedom: From Counterculture to Counter-couture
Bureau of Lost Culture • Dec 19, 2021
The Countercultural World of Iain Sinclair
Bureau of Lost Culture • Dec 5, 2021
Blondie, The Bowery and The Blank Generation
Bureau of Lost Culture • Nov 21, 2021
Raving Upon Thames
Bureau of Lost Culture • Nov 8, 2021
The Art and Craftiness of Sampling
Bureau of Lost Culture • Oct 25, 2021
The Rise and Fall of the Bootleg Record
Bureau of Lost Culture • Oct 12, 2021
Women Against The Bomb
Bureau of Lost Culture • Oct 4, 2021
Child of the Counterculture
Bureau of Lost Culture • Sep 13, 2021
William Burroughs and Friends
Bureau of Lost Culture • Aug 29, 2021
Stories and Sounds of Central Asia
Bureau of Lost Culture • Aug 19, 2021
The Lost World of Pirate Radio - Part One
Bureau of Lost Culture • Aug 2, 2021
The Acid Techno Squat Party
Bureau of Lost Culture • Jul 19, 2021
Cancelled! The Counterculture of Ideas
Bureau of Lost Culture • Jul 6, 2021
The Life and Times of a Foreign Correspondent
Bureau of Lost Culture • Jun 22, 2021
London’s Lost World of Yiddisher Jazz
Bureau of Lost Culture • Jun 7, 2021
The UFO Club
Bureau of Lost Culture • May 27, 2021
The English Underground with Nick Laird Clowes - Part 2
Bureau of Lost Culture • May 27, 2021
The English Underground with Nick Laird Clowes - Part 1
Bureau of Lost Culture • May 27, 2021
Tales from The Flamingo Club
Bureau of Lost Culture • May 27, 2021
Comics, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll
Bureau of Lost Culture • May 23, 2021
Blinded by The Light - A Countercultural History of Spectacles
Bureau of Lost Culture • May 11, 2021
How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin
Bureau of Lost Culture • Apr 25, 2021
NICO - You are Beautiful and You are Alone
Bureau of Lost Culture • Apr 12, 2021
Skinhead: The Counter-Counterculture
Bureau of Lost Culture • Apr 1, 2021
Memories of a Free Festival
Bureau of Lost Culture • Feb 28, 2021
The Legend, Legacy and Lyrics of Syd Barrett
Bureau of Lost Culture • Feb 15, 2021
Soviet Hippies
Bureau of Lost Culture • Feb 1, 2021
The Roxy Club -100 Nights of Punk Madness
Bureau of Lost Culture • Jan 17, 2021
Days of the Underground: The Life and Times of Hawkwind
Bureau of Lost Culture • Jan 3, 2021
The British Folk Underground - with Stephen Duffy
Bureau of Lost Culture • Dec 21, 2020
Which One’s Pink? Managing the Counterculture
Bureau of Lost Culture • Dec 1, 2020
Rebel Threads: Dressing the Counterculture
Bureau of Lost Culture • Nov 17, 2020
Days in the Life: The Language of Counterculture
Bureau of Lost Culture • Nov 1, 2020
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London: The Films of Peter Whitehead
Bureau of Lost Culture • Oct 19, 2020
The Mysteries of T. C. Lethbridge
Bureau of Lost Culture • Oct 13, 2020
Helter Skelter: Charles Manson and the CIA
Bureau of Lost Culture • Oct 7, 2020
The Divine Rascal - Hollingshead Pt.2
Bureau of Lost Culture • Oct 7, 2020
The Man Who Turned On the World - Hollingshead Pt.1
Bureau of Lost Culture • Sep 16, 2020
Barney Bubbles: Designing the Counterculture
Bureau of Lost Culture • Sep 16, 2020
Arthur Machen and The London Labyrinth
Bureau of Lost Culture • Sep 16, 2020
High Weirdness: Psychedelic Visions in 70s America
Bureau of Lost Culture • Sep 16, 2020
The Secret History of Mescaline
Bureau of Lost Culture • Sep 16, 2020
The Soviet 'Punk Frank Zappa'
Bureau of Lost Culture • Sep 14, 2020
The Invisible Battle of the Cold War Airwaves
Bureau of Lost Culture • Sep 14, 2020
The Smallest Country in the World
Bureau of Lost Culture • Sep 14, 2020
A Short History of Soviet Counterculture
Bureau of Lost Culture • Sep 13, 2020
1977 - Year of Punk
Bureau of Lost Culture • Sep 13, 2020
Drugs, Doctors and Rock 'n Roll
Bureau of Lost Culture • Sep 13, 2020
Sweat, Drums and Rock 'n Roll - with Twink
Bureau of Lost Culture • Sep 13, 2020
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