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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Culture Bunker: Guest BILLY BRAGG plus Last Night In Soho, The War On Drugs, French psychedelic pop

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Hear all the music on our podcasts in full on our rolling playlist: https://bit.ly/CultBunk Original Essex Man BILLY BRAGG joins us to discuss how the pandemic changed pop, politics and his haircut, on the very day his new album The Million Things That Never Happened comes out. Plus film critic Linda Marric joins us to look at Edgar Wright’s bizarre West End horrorfest LAST NIGHT IN SOHO, new music from THE WAR ON DRUGS, well-aged psychedelic pop from France, and more. Presented by Siân Pattenden Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jelena Sofronijevic. Audio production by Alex Rees. Theme music: ‘Bunker Theme (Juntos Mix)’ by Kenny Dickinson. The Culture Bunker is a Podmasters production.  Rolling playlist: https://bit.ly/CultBunk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved

0:05.5

photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.

0:11.8

Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?

0:13.0

I loved going to college.

0:14.0

It's good you can retrain and do something.

0:16.0

Yeah, yeah.

0:17.0

Let's talk about working, learning, saving and making the most of living longer.

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theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. You're going to. Hello and I'm Andrew Harrison. This week we are delighted to welcome the artist

1:17.0

and I'm Andrew Harrison.

1:21.0

This week we are delighted to welcome the artist formerly known as the big nosebarred from parking Billy Bragg, whose new album is out today.

1:27.5

At the movies, guest Linda Marick helps us untangle Edgar Wright's last night in Soho.

1:33.0

And we've got the new albums from American Alt Indie combo The War on Drugs

1:37.0

and the Tranian compilation Pop Sakeelique, The Best of French Cyclic like Pop 1964 to 2019.

1:43.2

All this in today's Culture Bunker. Hello and welcome to the culture bunker and hello to our very special guest

1:56.1

he is the Woody Guthrie of British folk pop and roll standard bearer of protest

2:01.1

pop over four decades.

2:02.8

He's also the author of the Progressive Patriot

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