Culture Bunker: Beyoncé returns. Is Paper Girls the new Stranger Things? And ’80s news-talgia on BBC2

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Your pop culture fix: Will Renaissance be a rebirth for Beyoncé? Amazon’s small-town sci-fi mystery Paper Girls, adapted from the cult comic – can it out-strange Stranger Things? And superior newsroom drama in The Newsreader, on BBC2 and iPlayer now. Telegraph TV critic Michael Hogan is our special guest. Hear all the music on our rolling playlists. Spotify: https://bit.ly/CultBunk Tidal: https://tidal.com/browse/playlist/77075591-255c-47eb-9062-815c4dd469ef “Beyonce records get freighted with sociopolitical weight, yet she's shrugged that off for a fantastic pop record.” - Michael Hogan “Paper Girls has out-strangered Stranger Things.” - Sian Pattenden “The Newsreader isn’t empty nostalgia. This is, Who remembers when work was like this, and it was awful?” - Andrew Harrison Presented and produced by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Audio production by Alex Rees. Theme music: ‘Bunker Theme (Juntos Mix)’ by Kenny Dickinson. Co-produced by Jelena Sofronijevic. 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	podcast bugle. I'm Andrew Harrison.
1:30.0	And I'm Sean Paddendon.
1:31.0	On this week's show, Whatoo jotto, Queen Beyonce of the
1:35.2	cardinals is back with her new album Renaissance. What will we think of her return
1:40.1	to the D I S. C. O and-Hog heaven as we watch 80-centric sci-fi mystery Paper Girls on Amazon Prime
1:48.1	based on the comic book series by Brian K Vaughan and Cliff Chang. When four girls meet up on their morning paper round, the past, present and future collide.
1:57.0	Is it strong enough to rival Stranger Things?
1:59.0	Plus, we dip into the slippery world of 1980s Ozzy broadcast news with the news reader hence the name a
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