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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Culture Bunker: Squid Game, Beatles in India and more with Public Service Broadcasting’s J Willgoose

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Remember you can hear the music from every Culture Bunker in full on our rolling playlist.  Joining us for this week’s tour de pop culture are guests J. Willgoose, leader of avant pop band Public Service Broadcasting, and author Jenny Colgan. On the agenda: Could you play the Squid Game? We look at the Netflix breakout hit. Does new documentary The Beatles And India turn the tablas on our ideas of Western pop? And new music from Mancunian electro explorers W.H. Lung.  Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Alex Andreou. 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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0:55.3

look after theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Culture Bunker

1:15.8

your weekend pick me up of music film TV and whatever else we can lay our hands on.

1:20.3

My name's Andrew Harrison and today via Zierzint Berliner, we're delighted to be joined by J Wilkes Esquire of the

1:26.6

magnificent British band Public Service Broadcasting to talk about their new album, Bright Magic,

1:31.1

Anamage to the past, present and future of Berlin and much more besides.

1:36.1

And I'm Alex Andreu or Player 457 if you prefer, we'll be talking about Squid Game, the Kafkaesque Korean fantasy, where desperate people

1:44.8

agree to play a series of children's games for the highest imaginable stakes.

1:49.1

What has made it the Netflix hit of the moment?

1:51.8

Plus we have new music from Manchunian Electronic Explorers,

1:55.0

W.H. Lung.

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