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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

The Beautiful Game-Changer

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Society & Culture, Politics, Government

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The Lionesses’ victory in the Euros inspires a generation of girls. Can it transform football… and society? Meanwhile Sunak flails to out-loon Truss. With popular culture pulling in one direction and a regressive Tory gerontocracy pulling in another, is there any space for a unifying national story any more? Historian Alex von Tunzelmann – author of Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Changed History – is our special guest. Complete our listener survey for a chance to win a Bunker t-shirt: https://bit.ly/3zFSySB “The Labour Party loves nothing more than hating the Labour Party… A fight between left and right has to happen every new moon.” – Marie le Conte “No wonder Truss and Sunak are promising anything and everything. They are dealing with a membership of Home Counties mad bastards with an average age of ‘ghost’.” – Ahir Shah “If you want to sort the two halves of Britain easily, just ask the question ‘Would you bring back hanging?’” – Alex von Tunzelmann “Anyone who spends 24 hours in France while not being white will know that no, France is not better at decolonising than Britain…” – Marie le Conte https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Ros Taylor with Marie le Conte and Ahir Shah. Producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic . Assistant producer Kasia Tomasiewicz. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. Lead producer: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. The Bunker is a Podmasters production.  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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theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. Hello and welcome to the weekly bunker roundtable I'm Ros Taylor.

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This week what have women done to the beautiful game?

1:13.4

We mull over the Lionesses victory at Wembley.

1:15.6

Kia Starmers taking a tough line on the rail strikes, but what to the public think?

1:19.6

And we talk about Britain's national story, how it's changing, and why Rishe Sunak is so very upset about

1:24.8

that. All that and more on this week's bunker.

1:28.6

Welcome back to the bunker. A bit of news, we're running a listener survey to help us

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improve the show. The links in the show notes. Fill it in and you're in with a chance

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of winning a t-shirt. Why not do it now while you're listening to the podcast?

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Add a quick reminder that you can support our work on the crowdfunding platform, Patreon.

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