The Bunker
Your daily need to know on news and politics. Every weekday morning The Bunker cuts through the noise to make sense of what’s really going on, with smart explainers, interviews, fresh perspectives and under-reported stories to rescue you from everyday Punch and Judy news coverage. It’s the only way to start the day. From the producers of Oh God, What Now?
Our regulars include: Gavin Esler • Ros Taylor.• Hannah Fearn • Andrew Harrison • Jacob Jarvis • Emma Kennedy • Rafael Behr • Seth Thévoz.
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Brace yourself for 2022 – Start Your Year with ...
15 min
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Daily: Enter Stage Left – Playwright James Grah...
30 min
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One Lord Frost A-Leaving – plus 2021 in Review
54 min
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Frost Bitten, Truss Shy – Start Your Week with ...
26 min
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Daily: Season’s Brie-Eatings! Christmas cheese’...
26 min
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Culture Bunker: More Best of 2021 feat. Self Es...
62 min
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Daily: Harsh Reality – How TV shaped modern Bri...
22 min
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Daily: Great Expectations – How Your Mindset Ca...
We’ve all heard of the placebo effect, but what about the Expectation Effect? What we think will happen can change what does happen.
30 min
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Quizzee Rascal
As the leaks about illicit parties and quizzes pile up, and the Tory right wing fly into a rage about COVID passports, is Boris Johnson finally running out of road? And is the Torysphere getting bored with their boy? Plus we talk to Jolyon Maugham of the Good Law Project about the many deep-running scandals behind the day-to-day headlines. And what’s worse, the pressure to be happy all the time – or performative negativity from professional cynics?
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Omi-shambles – Start Your Week with Ros Taylor
It’s Crunch Week (again) for Boris Johnson as he tries to get Plan B Corona restrictions past a mob of increasingly rebellious and COVID-sceptic Tory MPs. Meanwhile the party-that-wasn’t and the world’s most unwise Christmas quiz continue to dog our unfortunate PM. Oh, and there’s the North Shropshire by-election on Thursday too. New PM by Christmas? Ros Taylor alerts you to what’s coming in the week ahead.
21 min
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Daily: Libya and our Global Disorder
Our world is no longer governed by international coordination, with superpowers instead promoting ‘Enduring Disorder’. Jason Pack, non-resident fellow at the Middle East Institute and author of Libya and the Global Enduring Disorder, talks to Arthur Snell about why the West has stopped collaborating internationally, and why Libya’s Civil War constitutes the ideal microcosm in which to view today’s geopolitics.
31 min
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Culture Bunker: Special guest NIGELLA LAWSON pl...
70 min
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Daily: Islamic Thought - A Short History with D...
21 min
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Daily: France’s Far-Right Firebrand
25 min
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Corridors of Powder: Cocaine in the Commons
60 min
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PCR & R – Start Your Week with Alex Andreou and...
26 min
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Daily: Into The Time Machine – Biographer Clair...
18 min
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Culture Bunker: Guest Jane Weaver plus Best of ...
65 min
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Daily: Inside the Channel Crisis
28 min
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Daily: Clean Hands, Dirty Money – Transparency ...
28 min
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Omicron And On And On
57 min
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Omicron: Christmas Cancelled Again? - Start You...
19 min
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Daily: Charlotte Raven on Life with Huntington’...
27 min
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Culture Bunker: Special guest SUGGS from Madnes...
66 min
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Daily: Are the Balkans on the brink of war?
29 min