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Today in Focus

Building for end times: the boom in bunkers

Today in Focus

The Guardian

News, Daily News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Threat of nuclear war and a global pandemic have spurred a boom in individuals purchasing survival bunkers, says author Bradley Garrett. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:09.0

Today is it time to invest in a bunker for the apocalypse?

0:24.0

In 108, turn light.

0:28.0

So we're driving down some windy country roads.

0:32.0

There are trees on either side and there's just a mist over the horizon.

0:39.0

Which seems quite fitting when we're going on this mystery journey.

0:45.0

I produced a rosinite, had travelled deep into the Essex countryside.

0:50.0

After about an hour of driving, I could see the dense foliage of the woods.

0:55.0

In orange, brown and red, starting to break up.

0:58.0

And the horizon opening up to us, onto green fields.

1:03.0

The car's stopping.

1:05.0

And we're getting out.

1:09.0

We walked down a dirt track and passed an old wooden hut on stealth.

1:14.0

The kind that someone might have used to keep watch from.

1:17.0

There's a sign up ahead.

1:19.0

It says, welcome, secret bunker.

1:25.0

Alright, okay, in we go.

1:28.0

Into a patch of woodland, a few meters on.

1:31.0

And then we see this brown stone building.

1:34.0

And there's a man standing outside it.

1:36.0

He's got grey, wiery hair and has a pair of glasses hanging around his neck on a string.

1:42.0

His hands are in his pockets as he walks towards us.

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