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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Culture Bunker: John Cooper Clarke, Foundation, Y: The Last Man, Trunk Records, Shep Pettibone’s 80s bangers

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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Society & Culture, Government, News, Politics

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Remember you can hear the music from every Culture Bunker in full on our rolling playlist. On this week’s pop culture roundtable we meet John Cooper Clarke, the William Blake of Salford, on the occasion of his new collection of poems – and he reads us one too. Plus, have Apple TV+ successfully filmed the unfilmable with their adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation? Is “all the men are dead” comic book adaptation Y: The Last Man any good? The genius of 80s remixer Shep Pettibone. And Jonny Trunk of Trunk Records on the out-thereness of library music. Produced and presented by Siân Pattenden and Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jelena Sofronijevic. Audio production by Robin Leeburn. Theme music: ‘Bunker Theme (Juntos Mix)’ by Kenny Dickinson. 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.

0:16.0

Yeah, yeah.

0:17.0

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0:22.0

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0:28.0

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0:30.0

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0:32.0

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0:36.7

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0:55.3

look after theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. Welcome to the Culture Bunker, your weekly bulletin from Planet Pop Culture, wherever that is, I'm Shan Pattenden.

1:13.4

On today's show I talk to John Cooper Clark, the William Blake of Salford

1:17.5

about his first new book of poems in decades, the luckiest guy alive,

1:21.9

plus pies, new order order and teaching Nico jokes

1:25.0

also sci-fi lullabies space opera on a galactic scale in Apple TV's

1:29.5

adaptation of Isaac Asimov's Classic Foundation series,

1:32.8

sorry in Jared Harris, have they filmed the unfilmuggle,

1:35.7

and all the men in the world are dead except for one

1:38.6

in why the last man on Disney Plus,

1:41.1

is this the future liberals want. Plus, get down Shep, plus, it is the future liberals want.

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