Our last edition before moving to The Bunker's feed – see you there!

<p>Hear the music from every edition on our <a href="https://bit.ly/CultBunk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">rolling playlist</a>.</p><p>Our new weekend pop culture roundtable returns with special guest Lynval Golding of <strong>The Specials</strong>, and their latest album, <strong>Protest Songs</strong>. Journalist Ian Harrison joins us to chew on new films <strong>The Farewell</strong> and <strong>Sweetheart</strong>, and we all listen to Bright Magic, the latest offering from <strong>Public Service Broadcasting</strong>.</p><ul><li><em>"The history of music can almost be seen as one long protest song." - </em><strong><em>Sian Pattenden. </em></strong></li><li><em>"I was born in Jamaica, I am living in America, but England is my home." - </em><strong><em>Lynval Golding</em></strong></li><li><em>"Gay men get films set in Lombardy. Gay women get the caravan park in Dorset." - </em><strong><em>Alex Andreou.</em></strong></li></ul><p>Because of licensing issues we’ll have to use fewer music clips than usual in the main release –&nbsp;but Patreon people, rest assured you’ll get “a few extras” in this version. And all the music is on The Culture Bunker’s rolling playlist: <a href="https://bit.ly/CultBunk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/CultBunk</a></p><p><em>Produced and presented by Siân Pattenden and Alex Andreou. Assistant producer Jelena Sofronijevic. Audio production by Alex Rees. Theme music: ‘Bunker Theme (Juntos Mix)’ by Kenny Dickenson. </em><strong><em>Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.</em></strong></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

<p>Hear the music from every edition on our <a href="https://bit.ly/CultBunk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">rolling playlist</a>.&nbsp;</p><br><p>Welcome to the debut of our new weekend pop culture roundtable, as the podcast formerly known as <a href="https://play.acast.com/s/bigmouth" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bigmouth</a> joins The Bunker. This week, special guest Dan Gillespie Sells, composer of <strong>Everybody’s Talking About Jamie</strong> joins us to talk over the musical’s transition to Amazon Prime film. Critic Michael Hann helps us unpack <strong>Sex Education Series 3 </strong>on Netflix, and The North Water. Plus friend of the podcast <strong>Naomi Smith </strong>joins to share her pick of the horror flicks out in cinemas now.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><ul><li><em>"Pop music is something you have on when you're dropping the kids off swimming. Writing for musical theatre is very different." - </em><strong><em>Dan Gillespie Sells.</em></strong></li><li><em>"Drag queens are superheroes." - </em><strong><em>Alex Andreou. </em></strong></li><li><em>"When I came out, I wore a white wedding dress and sang Don't Cry for Me, Argentina in the town square." - </em><strong><em>Alex Andreou. </em></strong></li><li><em>"Sex Education is for people to reminisce about the sex they didn't have as teenagers." - </em><strong><em>Michael Hann. </em></strong></li></ul><p><br></p><p>Because of licensing issues we’ll have to use fewer music clips than usual in the main release –&nbsp;but Patreon people, rest assured you’ll get “a few extras” in this version. And all the music is on The Culture Bunker’s rolling playlist: <a href="https://bit.ly/CultBunk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/CultBunk</a></p><br><p><em>Produced and presented by Siân Pattenden and Alex Andreou. Assistant producer Jelena Sofronijevic. Audio production by Alex Rees. Theme music: ‘Bunker Theme (Juntos Mix)’ by Kenny Dickenson. </em><strong><em>Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.&nbsp;</em></strong></p><p><br></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

<p>Hear the music from every edition on our <a href="https://bit.ly/CultBunk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">rolling playlist</a>.&nbsp;</p><br><p>Welcome to the debut of our new weekend pop culture roundtable, as the podcast formerly known as <a href="https://play.acast.com/s/bigmouth" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bigmouth</a> joins The Bunker. This week, special guest Sarah Cracknell of pop couturiers <strong>Saint Etienne</strong> joins us to talk over their new album <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/4lAlJDRobl1616M78q4lBj?si=r8wWE47-TTyF7P8KbMHkxA&amp;dl_branch=1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">I’ve Been Trying To Tell You</a>. Plus critic John Mullen helps us dissect the new Steve Martin/Selena Gomez/Martin Short crime caper <strong>Only Murders In The Building</strong> plus new albums from Antipodean punks <strong>Amyl &amp; The Sniffers </strong>and<strong> Art School Girlfriend</strong>, the ambient sound of Wrexham.&nbsp;</p><br><p>Because of licensing issues we’ll have to use fewer music clips than usual in the main release –&nbsp;but Patreon people, rest assured you’ll get “a few extras” in this version. And all the music is on The Culture Bunker’s rolling playlist: <a href="https://bit.ly/CultBunk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/CultBunk</a></p><br><p><em>Produced and presented by Siân Pattenden and Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jelena Sofronijevic. Audio production by Alex Rees. Theme music: ‘Bunker Theme (Juntos Mix)’ by Kenny Dickenson. </em><strong><em>Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. </em></strong></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

With special guests Justin Quirk and Mark Hooper

With special guest Michael Hogan

It’s a double-doctorate edition as Dr Jen Otter Bickerdike joins us to explain the truth about Rock’s Ice Maiden® in her new book You Are Beautiful And You Are Alone: The Real Story Of Nico…&nbsp;and Dr Eamonn Forde returns to fill us in his latest...

In road trip movie from (and to) hell Zola a young African-American waitress finds herself conned into sex work, but she’s no victim. What will we make of this first movie based on a series of tweets? Plus the ravishing radiophonic of Hannah Peel, pira...

Out early for Patreon people…&nbsp;Understated ASMR pop paragon Billie Eilish is the voice of a million teenage bedrooms, but how will her second album Happier Than Ever go down with our 45+ panel of oldies? Plus the perils of child stardom in jaw-...

Will The Sparks Brothers – a fraternal rockumentary from Edgar Spaced Wright – cast new insight on Mael pattern creativity? Plus a remarkable contemporary soul debut from Joel Culpepper with the unimprovable title Sgt. Culpepper, Scritti Politti reissu...

Is the BBC’s new podcast series Pieces Of Britney a worthwhile exploration of a modern showbiz horror story, or just as exploitative in its own way? Plus the soul sounds of “newstalgia” with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, r’n’b goes all Miami Vice in Too S...

You want eclectic? Novelist and Richard Allen du jour John Niven and Clark Collis of Entertainment Weekly join us for this week’s pop smörgåsbord. This week: Sault’s surprise album of boundary-breaking BLM r’n’b, bombastic Gallic prog rave from Gaspard...

Will all-day drinking restore your creative spark and joie de vivre, asks new Mad Mikkelson movie Another Round? What do YOU think, respond our guests Linda Marric and Jim Butler. Also, new albums from the Dennis the Menace of hip hop Tyler, The Creato...

Cult UK director Ben Wheatley returns to his folk-horror roots with the post-pandemic shocker In The Earth. Will we be able to see the horror for the trees? John Grant’s new album Boy From Michigan is searingly powerful on its creator’s chequered life,...

The BBC’s intense Sean Bean/Stephen Graham prison drama Time… Marvel’s Loki gets a wildly original Disney+ series to confound all expectations…&nbsp;new music from Deap Vally…&nbsp;and if you’re only going to watch one series about a deer-human...

Out early for Patreon people…&nbsp;Is cosmic soul Londoner Greentea Peng’s debut album Man Made the spaced-out summer soundtrack we need? BritBox’s first original programming is Isle of Wight crime thriller The Beast Must Die, but can the streaming...

Contemporary stress drives Ben “Q” Whishaw to a strangely ecstatic breakdown in strange London thriller SURGE. Why Michelle Zauner aka JAPANESE BREAKFAST is the Korean-American sophisto-pop turn you should be paying attention to. And what the hell is g...

Billie Piper’s astonishing directorial debut RARE BEASTS: genius reinvention of the romcom, cinematic ordeal, arthouse triumph or all three? GRUFF RHYS of Super Furry Animals writes a concept album about how a Korean volcano explains the essence of hum...

Crossover Episode! Our old bosses MARK ELLEN and DAVID HEPWORTH of A Word In Your Ear, Smash Hits, Q and Mojo fame join Siân and Andrew to mark our quarter century. On the agenda: the glory days of the Hits and why the music biz didn’t know how much it...

Art-pop provocateur ST VINCENT returns with an album inspired by her dad’s 12 year jail sentence for multimillion dollar financial fraud. Is this the key to Annie Clark’s oeuvre (and is it any good)? Plus MATT ‘TOAST OF LONDON’ BERRY’S frankly marvello...

Dear God, it’s Bigmouth’s fifth birthday. We know, right? In celebration, we welcome the legend that is Neil Tennant plus “third Pet Shop Boy” David Quantick for a gala appreciation of the lost world of the music press that made us. Worst interviewees,...

The astonishing stories of the little-known women who shaped the genesis of electronic music are told in new documentary Sisters With Transistors. How would you like your guitar music: unflinchingly realist with Teenage Fanclub or boldly avant garde wi...

The Carey Mulligan revenge thriller Promising Young Woman from Killing Eve writer Emerald Fennell: black comedy, proper serious commentary, or just too intense to enjoy? Up and coming young artist Paul McCartney hands over his music to everyone from St...

Is Nomadland, with Frances McDormand as a van-dwelling “houseless not homeless” wanderer in the new America, really as good as all the awards imply? New albums by one-man rave-up Raf Rundell (ex-2 Bears) and cosmic soul man Matthew E White who’s gone a...

POD: SELFISH. In our most post-post-post punk edition ever, Bob Stanley of Saint Etienne and Tessa Norton join us to discuss Excavate! The Wonderful And Frightening World Of The Fall, their magisterial co-edited hardback symposium on music’s most crypt...