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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Pass Out To Help Out?

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The pubs are back! Can the Great British Public drink the county back to economic health? Plus, did the deeply strange Prince Philip memorial weekend give us any pointers to the future fate of the Monarchy? Should we give up hoping for ‘normal’ politics to come back? And why shouldn’t there be a black James Bond?  “AstraZeneca? I’d have taken a North Korean vaccine if they offered me.” – Justin Quirk “Brits treat the Royal Family as both superhuman and somehow subhuman too.” – Alex Andreou “If there’s one thing that Labour hates, it’s Labour.” – Marie le Conte Presented and produced by Andrew Harrison with Alex Andreou, Marie le Conte and Justin Quirk. Assistant producers: Jelena Sofronijevic  and 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

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I loved going to college.

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It's good you can retrain and do something.

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1:14.8

welcome back to another session of illegal indoor mingling in the bunker.

1:18.4

I'm Andrew Harrison. On this edition, Heartbreak for fans of Master Chef and Top of the Pop's 1991,

1:24.0

What does the reaction to the passing of Prince Philip tell us about what the monarchy really means to most people in Britain?

1:29.0

Normal life might be creeping back in the full of shops, gyms and outdoor cafes, but are we

1:33.9

fooling ourselves if we think that normal politics is ever coming back?

1:37.4

And after that storm in a teak up about the next James Bond possibly not being a white guy,

1:41.8

why do we invest so much in fictional characters?

1:44.4

All that and more edition of the bunker. Before we start a little bit of news about the podcast podcast our Friday edition has clashed with our semi-detached sibling podcast oh God what now for a while now

2:07.4

It comes out on Friday morning, too and some listeners have found themselves a little bit swamped so So from this week we're moving the

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