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Feb 2021
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Start Your Week: HEY, MR QUARANTINE MAN ...

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As enforced hotel quarantine kicks in, will closed borders mollify the increasingly restive Covid Recovery Group? And brace yourself for an entirely unnecessary War on Woke as the Government invents the Free Speech Champion – the worst superhero ever. Ian Dunt sets out the coming week for Andrew Harrison.


  • “You’d imagine that closed borders and quarantine would be exactly what the CRG want.”
  • “We won’t see much of Labour on the war on woke. But we haven’t seen much of Labour on anything lately.” 


Presented and 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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