Culture Bunker: Guest WILL YOUNG, Fontaines DC, Catherine Tate on Netflix and Apple’s feminist Black Mirror

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 15 April 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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On our pop culture round-up: Special guest Will Young tells us about the art of mind maintenance, a life in pop, and more. Plus hard-bitten Dublin rock’n’roll from Fontaines D.C., Catherine Tate’s Netflix prison comedy Hard Cell splits the panel, and futurist feminism in new Apple TV+ sci-fi anthology Roar. Journalist Craig McLean of The Face and the Telegraph joins Siân and Alex in The Bunker. Hear all the music on our rolling playlists. Spotify: https://bit.ly/CultBunk Tidal: https://tidal.com/browse/playlist/1aea7525-7891-4a88-8474-a08c45ea064b “My desert island mental health advice is don’t expect something from people they're not willing or capable of giving.” - Will Young “My therapist also said, if I was your boyfriend I’d dump you’ - Will Young “As a man, watching ‘Roar’ I felt uncomfortable, but in a good way.” - Alex Andreou “For me, this wasn’t a ‘Roar’, more like a squeak.” - Craig McLean “I'm a bit disappointed with Skinty Fia as the rattling punk energy in the first two records is gone… maybe they’ve lost some of their spark since moving away from Dublin.” - Craig McLean “The main thing about ‘Hard Cell’ is that I just didn’t find it funny; it falls a bit flat.”- Siân Pattenden Presented by Siân Pattenden and Alex Andreou. Producer Jelena Sofronijevic with Elina Ganatra. 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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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.
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1:25.6	I'm Shan Paddenden.
1:27.6	And I'm Alexandra.
1:29.0	This week we won't be calling anything average.
1:31.8	We are absolutely thrilled to be joined by singer, songwriter, actor,
1:36.1	author, podcaster and LGBTQ plus activist. I'm going to need a tea break, the legendary Will Young.
1:45.2	And reel around the Fontaine's.
1:48.0	We listen to Skinty Fear, the third album from Feisty Dubliners, Fontaine's DC. Are they set to go stratospheric?
1:55.4	We also settled down to watch Roar. The brand new series on Apple TV Plus featuring female
2:01.4	led stories, hoora, starring Cynthia Revo,
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