NEW Weekly Wrap-Up – From New York to Westminster with Alex von Tunzelmann

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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NEW: If you like Start Your Week’s look ahead, how about a round-up of the biggest, strangest, most important stories of the week, every Friday? On today’s debut edition: What Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York really means. “Vibe coding”. The heroism of train attack defender Samir Zitouni. Rachel Reeves’ pre-budget nerves. And what the hell has Donald Trump done to the White House this week? • Read Spencer Ackerman’s excoriating obituary of Dick Cheney. • We are sponsored by Indeed. Go to indeed.com/bunker for £100 sponsored credit. www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Andrew Harrison and Alex von Tunzelmann. Producer: Liam Tait. Audio production by Robin Leeburn. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. www.podmasters.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, it's Andrew Harrison here. This edition of The Bunker comes with support from Ancestry,
0:05.7	the online database that helps you discover your family history. We're coming up to Remembrance Day,
0:11.1	and it's a time when a lot of us think about what our families were experiencing during the war.
0:15.1	Both are my granddad's fort in the Second World War. One was held prisoner in Italy, and for a while
0:19.3	my nan didn't know whether he was alive or dead. The other was in the tanks, and he never spoke much about it. I feel like I ought to know more
0:26.2	about what they and their families went through. So Ancestry is doing something special over the
0:30.8	remembrance period. They're giving free access to selected global wartime records, so you can begin
0:36.4	to discover what your family did on the
0:38.3	frontline and the home front. Register with ancestry, and until Wednesday the 12th of November,
0:43.4	you can access 6.9 million wartime records from around the world for free. You can see the
0:49.9	detail of Army service records and casualty reports, historic photos and records from the
0:55.0	Homefront too, so you can discover stories of courage and resilience in your family.
0:59.8	Register at Ancestry.co.uk or search Ancestry.com.uker today to start your free searches.
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