Bureau of Lost Culture
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On the Road + Off the Grid - In Alternative Britain
October 8, 2026 · 56 minJoin our Patreon HERE --- Britain has always been home to people who live differently. Romani Gypsies, Irish Travellers, Showmen/women who carry the fairgrounds from town to town, families who made their homes on the waterways, and, more…
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From Shaman to Showman - The Ghosts of the Medicine Show
September 22, 2026 · 52 minIf you're going to watch your local football team this weekend, or perhaps catch a big match on a TV screen in the pub, do you know that you may be unconsciously participating in an ancient ritual? And as you're shouldering your way to the…
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Psilocybe Pickers - A Short History of Bemushroomed Britons
September 10, 2026 · 57 minFor centuries, it seems Britain’s magic mushrooms remained hidden in plain sight—growing in fields, parks, and hillsides. When knowledge of them did emerge, it passed between people through rumours, oral testimony, underground…
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A Countercultural History of the Universe
August 21, 2026 · 52 minHas 20th-and 21st-century physics moved away from the brute materialism of the nineteenth century toward ideas that resemble the world’s ancient mystical traditions? Might many of the discipline’s greatest figures — Einstein, Niels Bohr…
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Levitating the Pentagon and other Stories
August 2, 2026 · 1 hr 1 minShe's 82 but is firing on all cylinders, still crazy after all these years, as Paul Simon sang, well, still crazy enough to believe the world can be changed for the better, that it's her duty to try to make that happen and crazy enough in…
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Peace is a Fire: The Monk Who Set Himself Alight
July 19, 2026 · 59 minThere are some images that don’t simply record history—they change it. On the morning of 11 June 1963, at a busy crossroads in Saigon, Thích Quảng Đức, a Buddhist monk, calmly sat down in the lotus position while fellow monks poured…
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The Road to Rebellion - Part 1
July 3, 2026 · 51 minRoc Sanford is a British writer, artist and climate activist whose life has been a countercultural journey from an alternative childhood through academia to a remarkable experiment in off-grid living and ecological resistance as a…
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Free Radicals - Tripping in the 18th Century.
June 10, 2026 · 56 minIn the company of historian of drugs, MIKE JAY, we journey back to the first psychedelic age - not the 1960s, but the 1790s, when Britain was at the forefront, at the frontier, of gonzo psychedelic science. We explore the world of the…