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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Culture Bunker: Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake guests – plus BBC Gazza doc, Horace Andy, Slow Horses

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

On our pop culture round-up: BBC2’s “genuinely moving” Paul Gascoigne documentary, reggae legend Horace Andy returns, and is Apple TV+ spy drama Slow Horses a Tinker, Tailor for the 21st Century? Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake joins us along with legendary beer writer Pete Brown – new book Clubland: How the Working Men’s Club Shaped Britain available for pre-order now.  Hear all the music on our rolling playlists. Spotify: https://bit.ly/CultBunk Tidal: https://tidal.com/browse/playlist/1aea7525-7891-4a88-8474-a08c45ea064b “I found ‘Gazza’ incredibly moving and upsetting. I was watching it in tears.” – Pete Brown on ‘Gazza’ “The best part of ‘Gazza’ is you see that this gift is really a curse.” – Andrew Harrison on ‘Gazza’ “It’s the sound of a band knowing they’re creating something glorious but not sure that they can control it, like the wheels could fall of at any minute” – Pete Brown on New Order’s Temptation  Presented by Siân Pattenden and Andrew Harrison. Producer Jelena Sofronijevic with Elina Ganatra. Audio production by Jade Bailey. 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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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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Yeah, yeah.

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theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. And Hello and welcome to the Culture Bunker your pop culture podcast round up I'm

1:26.9

Shan Patenden and I'm Andrew Harrison this week we are thrilled to be joined

1:30.4

mid-tour by Norman Blake of Guitar Rock Star Wars Teenage Fan Club.

1:34.9

And just say nay, we watch Spy thriller Slow Horses on Apple TV starring Gary Oldman and

1:40.9

Kristen Scott Thomas.

1:42.1

Plus we listen to dub legend Horace Ande's brand new album, Midnight Rocker,

1:46.6

made in collaboration with Adrian Sherwood.

1:49.1

And they think it's all over?

1:50.8

It probably is.

1:51.6

We watch the Paul Gascoine documentary

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