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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Tenth birthday special! Our very first podcast BIGMOUTH is back for one week only

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Podmasters

News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

• It’s Podmasters’ 10th birthday! Get an extra 10% off a year’s Patreon backing.  Our original podcast is back for one week only! Bigmouth AKA The Culture Bunker, the pop culture chatpod that birthed The Bunker, Oh God, What Now? and more, returns for our tenth birthday. On the agenda: Kneecap’s new album ‘Fenian’, Apple TV’s Margo’s Got Money Troubles, hot new tunes from the panel… and all the stuff we missed when we were off air, including Project Hail Mary and The Lowdown. With regulars Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden plus returning guests, The Guardian’s Jude Rogers (who was on the very first Bigmouth on 24 April 2016) and writer and music tech guru Michael Moran… who reveals an astonishing secret. • Hear the tunes we talk about today on the Bigmouth rolling playlist… still going!  • Hear Boots On The Ground by Massive Attack & Tom Waits, which isn’t on streaming. • And neither are The Shashashanimals.  www.patreon.com/bunkercast  Written and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Audio production: Tom Taylor. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Artwork by James Parrett. 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, I've been waiting for years to say this. Big Mouth strikes again. We are back. The original Popmasters podcast is back for one week only. I'm Andrew Harrison. And I'm Sean Patton.

0:22.2

And Big Mouth has returned from podcast heaven.

0:24.8

Before there was, oh God, what now on the bunker?

0:26.7

Before talk 90s to me and American friction, before even Romaniacs.

0:30.8

Before Brexit, Chapel Rhone, Barbenheimer, Prime Minister Liz Truss and Skibbitty Toilet,

0:35.8

there was Big Mouth.

0:36.8

And it is where we learned our craft of Our skill and our craft. And such as it is, 10 years. 10 years are still talking over each other. Yes, highly, highly skilled. I mean, it's mad looking back on 10 years ago. What were the high points that we've had all sorts of mad things? Like when Neil Tennant was on and he forgot to charge his laptop. That was my favourite.

0:54.8

So he kept counting down. He said 42%. 38%. Podcasting against the clock. That's a format. We should release the unedited version of that, where he does count down. Yes. And also Steve Davis, which is fantastic. Yes. Nigella Lawson, I like, because I also got some cooking tips from her as well. I like it when we had Peter Capaldi and Dr. Robert from the Blowmankees.

1:13.2

That was good, wasn't it?

1:14.3

It was the two doctors. Yes, and an assistant. And an assistant. Anyway, in traditional Big Mouth style, we have two guests with us today, and one of them was on the very first edition back in 2016. She hasn't changed to Joss. It's Guardian

1:27.8

writer, author of The Sound of Being Human, broadcast and unrepentant Welsh person, Jude Rogers. Hello, Jude. Hello. I have changed a bit. No, you haven't. Of course, I'm a silverhead fox now. Well, all right, you know. So on the very first episode in 2016, we did Game of Thrones, record store date

1:43.6

Sandy Denny and career

1:44.9

ending LPs

1:45.6

The world hasn't changed

1:46.8

So sweet

1:47.5

Sandy Denny and career-ending LPs.

1:46.1

The world hasn't changed. So sweet. Sandy Denny's still, you know, current.

1:49.8

Yeah. Last week it was Hip-Oper-Rae's Records Store Day. You're going to need a second mortgage.

1:55.1

And there's even Games of Thrones things knocking about, aren't there? Do you do Records Store Day yourself?

2:00.0

I don't because I can't face waiting in long queues with men of a certain persuasion, no offence to the lovely gentleman listening. Yes. No, I don't. And records are really expensive these days. I like going to secondhand shops like I did when I was 16, trying to find things for two quid, like weird records with the sound effects on and stuff.

2:18.0

I picked up a BBC sound effects CD the other day. It was great. So in the middle of my random phone, I get like cows moo ink. And it feels like you've invented your own orb album by mistake. Do you think pop culture has slowed down or are we just getting old? A bit of both

2:31.3

No, we're not getting old

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