Culture Bunker: Belle and Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch, The Dropout and The Batman, plus new music from the Weather Station

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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Society & Culture, Government, News, Politics

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Hear all the music on our rolling playlist: https://bit.ly/CultBunk After a sneaky single drop from their new album A Bit of Previous, Scottish indie pop megastar Stuart Murdoch of Belle and Sebastian joins us to talk about making floating music festivals and his Sundance Award-winning film. Crime writer par excellence William Shaw speaks to Siân and Jelena about The Dropout on Disney Star starring Amanda Siegfried as disgraced biotech billionaire Elizabeth Holmes, and The Weather Station’s latest album, How is It That I Should Look at the Stars, and Andrew Harrison and Linda Marric go to see The Batman. Plus, we listen to the the new Butcher Boy anthology 'You Had A Kind Face'. It’s available to order at https://needlemythology.tmstor.es/ - and the first ones in get a limited edition postcard set. “Songwriting is moaning to music - and I've been doing it for 26 years now.” - Stuart Murdoch “We're in the age of the newsroom drama. It's a new kind of history-making.”- Jelena Sofronijevic “My Buddhist nun appeared to me in a dream, and helped me pick the songs from the album to turn into singles.” - Stuart Murdoch “This Weather Station album sounds like it's recorded in a room where's she afraid of waking the neighbours.” - William Shaw Written and presented by Siân Pattenden and Jelena Sofronijevic. Audio production by Alex Rees. Theme music: ‘Bunker Theme (Juntos Mix)’ by Kenny Dickinson. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. The Culture Bunker is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:28.0	This week we're delighted to be joined by the boy with the Arab strap himself, Scottish indie pop mega style, Stuart Murdoch of Bell and Sebastian
1:36.1	joins us to talk about an extensive career
1:38.5	of producing albums, floating music festivals,
1:40.9	plus a Sundance Award-winning film.
1:43.4	We also welcome Crime Writer, par excellence, William Shaw, into the studio.
1:47.8	We'll be discussing the dropout on Disney Star,
1:49.8	starring Amanda Siegfried as disgraced biotech billionaire Elizabeth Holmes,
1:54.0	plus Andrew Harrison and Linda Merrick go and see the E Batman.
1:58.0	And looks like rain.
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