The Bunker – Your daily news Deep Dive

Mini-budget backlash has given Labour plenty of ammunition to use against the Tories as their party conference gets into swing. Just how bad have Kwarteng and Truss’s plans gone down? And what fallout can we expect? Plus, we look at the latest from Russia, as Putin’s draft faces widespread protests. And, we unpack the Italian election results. 

• “Despite efforts from right-wing client media, market reaction to this budget has been bad.” – Alex Andreou
• “The one thing that stimulates growth is faith in the Government, and the markets don’t have it.” – Alex Andreou 
• “”The Ukrainian army has gained more equipment from Russia in the last week than from the West in the last six months.” – Alex Andreou 
• “When a vast majority turn against you in an autocracy, you tend to lose your head.” – Alex Andreou 

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Some 75% of adults don’t get the recommended seven to nine hours a night – and one in seven survive on dangerously low levels of sleep. So are we facing a national, or even international, sleep crisis? Lisa L. Lewis and Oxford professor Russell Foster talk to Jelena Sofronijevic about our body clocks, circadian rhythms, and why sleep is revolutionary. 

• “Sleep is like shoe size. One size does not fit all.” – Professor Russell Foster
• “The tired brain remembers the bad experiences, but not the good ones.” – Professor Russell Foster
• “Some leaders think sleep is for wimps.” – Professor Russell Foster
• “In China, sleep has been politicised. Some people are sleeping on the streets as a form of protest.” – Professor Russell Foster

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Weekend pop culture! Does Bowie mega-documentary Moonage Daydream do the Dame justice? Cult author David Keenan tells us about his astonishing, cryptic novel of occult hippiedom Industry of Magic And Light. And we’ve got big news for all listeners… plus a lot of new music, TV and movies to tide you over the autumn. 

• “My father was illiterate, but he could tell the most amazing stories. He had such faith in language and told me ‘You need to read, it’ll change your life’.” – David Keenan 
• “Making a film about Bowie without mentioning his prodigious intake of cocaine is a bit like mentioning Maradona without mentioning the football.” – Andrew Harrison
• “Moonage Daydream doesn’t feel like a sellout or a museum piece. It’s designed to feel as real as it felt at the time, not set in amber.” – Sian Pattenden
• “You should walk through art into life on the other side.” – David Keenan

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Our Autumn Almanack:

Jelena:

Alvvays new album ‘Blue Rev’ coming soon. 

Los Bitchos on tour. 

Triangle Of Sadness movie. 

The Story Of Art Without Men book.

Andrew:

Plaid new album Feorm Falorx coming in November.

Star Wars: Andor is streaming on Disney+ now.

As is the mind-blowing Marvel psychedelic epic Legion. 

And the spectacular Aussie comedy drama about crime and single dadhood, Mr Inbetween. 

Neil Gaiman completes his Miracleman story for Marvel in October.

Siân:

Gilla Band new album ‘Most Normal’ coming on Oct 7 – and lots of it is here.

Movies: Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Worry Darling.

Michael Flatley’s unmissable Blackbird.

Synthgeek documentary A Film About Studio Electrophonique.

And the underrated Atlanta with Donald Glover is on, yes, Disney+.

Presented and produced by Andrew Harrison, Siân Pattenden and Jelena Sofronijevic. Audio production by Alex Rees. Theme music: ‘Bunker Theme (Juntos Mix)’ by Kenny Dickinson. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. The Culture Bunker is a Podmasters production. 

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For this week’s Bunker Gold, listen back to Ros eating insects in September 2021… Chances are you haven’t willingly eaten an insect. But two billion people are already bugging out on this sustainable source of protein. Could insects offer the perfect solution for our post-Brexit and pandemic supply chain problems? Entomologist Brian Fisher and Imperial College London’s Dr. Tilly Collins join Ros Taylor to chew on how we can change perceptions about insects in the West, how health clinics are battling for cricket powder, and why Welsh schools are already using mealworm mince in their insect bolognaise….plus Ros and Tilly snack on crickets live in the studio.

• “With big animals, we only eat a bit of them. With insects, you eat the whole thing…” – Tilly Collins
• “Insects are the glue that holds the world together… If we could introduce the Bacon Bug, everyone would love it.” – Brian Fisher
• “Do you eat prawns? Why not eat a woodlouse?” – Tilly Collins

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Presented by Ros Taylor. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jelena Sofronijevic and Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production

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Disputes over energy resources have become a key global issue. How is the way we consume oil and gas reshaping politics across the world? Arthur Snell, host of the Doomsday Watch podcast, is joined by Thijs van de Graaf, associate professor of international politics at the Ghent Institute and author of Global Energy Politics to discuss our changing energy sector.

• “Oil consumption has peaked in the United States, Japan and Europe, the only way now is down.”
• “We have kicked out oil from the power sector, something we have worked towards since the oil shocks of the 1970s.”
• “The growth in oil pre-pandemic was petrochemicals and aviation, but now aviation has changed completely.”
• “The war has changed everything, Europe is decoupling from Russia – shocks that will be felt for many years.” 

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Bidding wars, rent caps and queues just to view homes. What is going on with rented housing? Far from being a fringe aspect of housing used by students, it's now used by a significant proportion of our population. Ahir Shah is joined by Pete Apps, deputy editor at Inside Housing and author of forthcoming book Show Me the Bodies, on the Grenfell Tower disaster, to discuss navigating the lettings market.  

• “We are seeing a supply-demand perfect storm.”
• “With house prices rising, most people really are trapped. They have no option but to rent at extortionate rates.”
• “The private rental sector isn’t some fringe part of the economy only used by students, it's the main way that many house themselves.”



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Liz Truss has taken her robotic speaking style too far as she trundles around like a Dalek yelling “deregulate, deregulate!” What red tape are she and Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng actually going to cut? Plus, we discuss the Overton Window of protest. Will tighter crackdowns on demonstrators persist as the mourning period ends? And, finally we discuss outdoor brand Patagonia’s owner giving away the company – what’s that all about?

• “The focus on growth seems completely mad. We’ve had growth – but that didn’t lead to people being better off.” – Miatta Fahnbulleh
• “The public has high expectations but the government is going to experiment with something that has been tried and failed.” – Miatta Fahnbulleh 
• “They think leaving money sloshing at the top will have a halo effect on the rest of the economy.” – Alex Andreou
• “I wouldn’t go as far as saying this is the wrong time, but I’m not saying it is the right time to protest either.” – Alex Andreou 

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Politics restarts as the Queen’s Funeral ends the mourning period. Liz Truss heads off to the UN Summit and Kwasi Kwarteng prepares his banker-fluffing Fiscal Event as the Government tries to reboot itself. Plus, we look at the latest from Ukraine, and the increasing pressure Putin faces for his miscalculations. Justin Quirk talks to Arthur Snell to lay out the days ahead. 

• “Truss has really struggled to live up to the historical importance of this moment.”
• “I think with Kwarteng’s plans there’ll be plenty to criticise, but plenty more to chew over.” 
• “The Government just hasn’t been doing governing for the last week.”
• “The UN agenda is going to be Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine.”
• “China really doesn’t need the chaotic, pre-Westphalian world that Putin is trying to bring back.”

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Should we welcome artificial intelligence in healthcare – or is it the stuff of dystopian nightmares? Jelena Sofronijevic is joined by James Zou, assistant professor of biomedical data science at Stanford University and David Leslie, director of ethics and responsible innovation research at the Alan Turing Institute, to discuss the potentials of AI and the future of health. 

• "We're building AI to augment, not replace, doctors." – James Zou
• "We need to work hard to create trust in health data sharing." - David Leslie
• “Just as like how we as humans are not neutral, algorithms should also not be neutral” - David Leslie



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Weekend pop culture! We discover The Beatles’ new spruced-up ‘Revolver’ with Giles “Son Of George” Martin. Guest Will Hodgkinson of The Times extols the chirpy-chirpy glories of ’70s bubblegum pop from his new book In Perfect Harmony. And we check out A24 gore-fest Bodies Bodies Bodies and Netflix’s latest Korean import, Narco Saints. 

• “Revolver is a punk record. The Beatles played hard.” – Giles Martin 
• “Try writing a song as catchy as ‘Chirpy Chirpy, Cheep Cheep’ – it’s not easy.” – Will Hodgkinson
• “When you listen to ‘Revolver’ you can hear the past, present and future of music.” – Siân Pattenden

Hear all the music on our rolling playlists.

Spotify: https://bit.ly/CultBunk

Tidal: https://tidal.com/browse/playlist/77075591-255c-47eb-9062-815c4dd469ef

Presented and produced by Siân Pattenden and Alex Andreou. Audio production by Alex Rees. Theme music: ‘Bunker Theme (Juntos Mix)’ by Kenny Dickinson. Co-produced by Jelena Sofronijevic. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. The Culture Bunker is a Podmasters production. 

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