Going Underground: Paranoia, prepping and the world beneath our feet

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 11 August 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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There’s a world going on underground. Ethnographer, archaeologist and author of the eerily prescient Bunker: Building For The End Times BRADLEY GARRETT is fascinated by tunnels, chambers and hidden realms – and what drives people to populate them. He tells Ros Taylor about the allure of the subterranean, the hidden city under Wiltshire – and the Doomsday Preppers who wanted to buy it – and the cocktail of modern dreads that make humans refuge underground. Hold tight for Bunker on bunker action… with a Rees-Mogg connection too. “COVID has revealed how fragile the society we’ve built over the past 30 years is. We created COVID’s pathways around the world.” “The city is archaeology in reverse… the newest has to be the deepest.” “If you’re heavily invested in societal collapse, and you’re in power, you might want to bring that collapse about.” Presented by Ros Taylor. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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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1:14.8	to someone who's just written a book about actual bunkers and the people who intend to hide
1:18.9	out in them come the apocalypse. Bradley Garrett is a social
1:22.8	geographer at University College Dublin and the author of Bunker,
1:26.2	Building for the End Times, just published by Penguin.
1:28.9	And he's joining me for some apologies, bunker on bunker action.
1:33.2	Welcome to the bunker Bradley.
1:35.4	It's not the first time someone said that to you, is it?
1:37.7	Ross, thank you, it's a pleasure to be with you.
1:40.4	No, I've seen a lot of bunkers over the past couple of years. A lot of them are
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