BUREAU OF LOST CULTURE - The Spell of David Lynch (25/10/2025)
Soho Radio
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When the filmmaker David Lynch died earlier this year, fans created shrines filled with doughnuts, coffee, cigarettes, and blue roses; a level of spontaneous mourning was more common for dead rock stars or royalty than filmmakers, showing how personally people felt connected to him.
His auctioned belongings sold for staggering sums, treated as relics. And this was a man who had an adjective - ‘Lynchian’ - named after him
Why?
My guest today, the writer and cultural historian John Higgs, returns to the Bureau. His new book ‘Lynchian: The Spell of David Lynch’ tries to answer those questions while taking a deep dive into the hidden depths of Lynch's films - where beauty and horror, dream and reality, suburban innocence and lurking evil co-exist; where simple pleasures—coffee, pie, music—take on a sacred resonance in contrast to violence and decay.
Where we can take a journey into darkness and out again - changed...
