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The Culture Bunker is a Podmasters production. Theme music: ‘Bunker Theme (Juntos Mix)’ by Kenny Dickinson. Written and presented by Siân Pattenden and Andrew Harrison. “Not only did the Catholic Church control the country, but so too did RTÉ…” – Eamonn Forde on Telefís Hear all the music on our rolling playlists. Journalist and author of Leaving the Building: The Lucrative Afterlife of Music Estates Eamonn Forde joins Grant of skate-surf rock-punk survivors Feeder to discuss a great lost album of British dance music, “theocratic electropop from the Irish diaspora”, Netflix’s attempt to do Spielberg… and much much more. Our pop culture review: Dancefloor existentialists Electribe 101, Microdisney mastermind returns with Telefís, Netflix comedy sci-fi The Adam Project and more with guest Grant Nicholas of Feeder. Producers: Jacob Archbold, Jelena Sofronijevic and Alex Rees. Presented by Alex Andreou with Gavin Esler. “It seems to be that Putin has lost the international information battle.” – Alex Andreou “Russia is a country of incredible cultural riches, and it’s become a money making machine for certain people.” – Gavin Esler “The Government is hamstrung by its own rhetoric over migrants and channel crossings.” – Gavin Esler “Putin must be asking what success looks like now, and I don’t know the answer to that.” – Gavin Esler “One stray missile lands in Poland and who knows where we’ll be.” – Gavin Esler But is the Government doing enough? Alex Andreou is joined by Gavin Esler to look at the week ahead. Is more involvement from the West inevitable? What might that look like? Meanwhile, the UK’s position on refugees is shifting, while sanctions have also been bolstered. The horror of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues to shock the world. Presented by Andrew Harrison with Arthur Snell and Ahir Shah. "For all Russia's craziness inside Ukraine, I still don’t think they're crazy enough to do something inside a NATO country." - Arthur Snellįind resources to help the Ukrainian people here: “I imagine a lot won’t be able to go home… for many it will be because the lives that they had are not available for them to return to.” - Arthur Snell “What we have in Calais now is a two-tiered system.” - Mathilda Mallinson "This is a very racist lesson as to why we haven't been treating other populations as refugees." – Mathilda Mallinson "There's such a bad faith approach in the right-wing media reporting on refugees." – Arthur Snell Mathilda Mallinson, of the Media Storm podcast and co-founder of Refugee Media Centre, is this week’s guest. And finally, we take a look at what’s going on with Spotify, after a major outage and dip in subscribers. The Government has been bounced into doing more for Ukrainian refugees, but are new plans just shifting responsibility? Plus, we discuss how Russia is trying to win the information war – and dissect the facts from fiction.