Culture Bunker: Guest Omid Djalili, Hillsborough drama Anne, Bowie’s lost album, BBC1’s The Tourist

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 8 January 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Hear all the music on our rolling playlist: https://bit.ly/CultBunk Comedian and actor Omid Djalili joins us to talk about the joy of returning to touring (tickets available now!), taking Iranian visitors to see Chelsea FC when he was only six, and life as TV’s go-to Middle Eastern everyman. Screenwriter Kevin Sampson gives us the story behind his devastating Hillsborough drama Anne, about a mother’s fight for justice for her son. Plus the lost Bowie album Toy, The Tourist on BBC1 and much more. “When I first saw Bowie, it was like an alien had come down the chimney.” – Kevin Sampson “When you watch something in a live setting, it has a physiologically different effect on you.” – Omid Djalili “What TV can do is personalise the experience of human pain.” – Kevin Sampson “I always thought the ME in BAME must stand for Middle East…” – Omid Djalili Produced and presented by Siân Pattenden and 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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1:25.6	And I'm Andrew Harrison. This week we are
1:28.3	delighted to welcome the blisteringly funny actor and
1:30.6	comedian Omer Julie Lee with us to talk about stand up in a post-lockdown world and much more.
1:35.6	And in the week that the stunningly powerful and really moving Hillsborough drama and aired on I TV,
1:42.0	we have the rightfully lauded writer Kevin
1:44.6	Sampson with us too how do you handle such a sensitive topic and marking what
1:49.9	would have been his 75th birthday we've got Dame David Bowie's new old album, Toye, including two
1:55.6	bonus discs of fun. Plus what we think of the BBC's The Tourist starring Jamie Dornan
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