Bunker Basket
by Dan Hall
Entertainment Funnel 4 is the weekly broadcast for residents of Bunker Basket South 5. It is a sealed underground community of over three thousand people, located beneath South London, following thermonuclear events that made the surface uninhabitable.Each week, Daddy - the warm, unhurried voice of Central Comfort - delivers community notices, letters from residents, music, guidance, and a reflection on life inside Bunker Basket. He knows your name. He knows what you need. He is glad you are here.Bunker Basket South 5 is a long-form dystopian "radio broadcast" designed to aid sleep and banish insomnia for those with apocalyptic imaginations.You are here. You are safe. You are held. You are known.Central Comfort thanks you for listening.
Episodes
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A Memory from the Day
Week twenty-two. Something begins tonight that Daddy has been preparing since before the blast door incident. The nurse was right: the texture of the before is what the body receives, not the data. This week the first Memory from the Day: a woman who had taken the day off to regrout her bathroom...
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Three Teenagers at the Blast Door
Week twenty-one. Something happened on Monday morning at two forty-seven. Three residents - all under eighteen - reached blast door approach corridor three through a removed maintenance panel. SIMS-BD detected the incursion within four minutes. The tertiary seal held. All three are now in the...
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Two Hundred and Thirty-One Children
Week twenty. The Education Funnel is on air. It has been on air since Monday. Two hundred and thirty-one children, every child in this facility, tuned in. The first lesson for the youngest cohort was about living things and how they grow. When the educator asked the children to describe something...
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What It Looks Like Outside
Week nineteen. There was a wedding in the Central Atrium last Saturday. The music was true. The building became, briefly, a witness. Also this week: fifty new hens arrive on Level 4 and need names - one submission per resident to their CCR by Tuesday. And the Wellness Suite has expanded from five...
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A Piglet Was Born
Week eighteen. Two residents are getting married. The ceremony will take place in the Central Atrium a week from this coming Saturday. Central Comfort is providing something from the kitchen. Daddy will not describe it in advance. Also: the Education Funnel launches in two weeks - on a Monday...
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The Market Was Still Open
Week seventeen. The day music became instrumental only - words carry private meanings the community cannot share equally, melody belongs to everyone. One submission returned with a warm note. Also: a specific Tuesday is described. The market in Brixton, open for an hour and a half after the image...
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What the Before-Times Looked Like
Week sixteen. Four notices including one to the young people gathering in the lower service corridor near the Frere Road junction after nine o'clock. Daddy is not issuing a warning. He is being honest. Also: Priya, sixteen, writes to ask whether it is getting better outside. She cannot always…
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The Scheme Has Always Been Running
Week fifteen. Community Wellbeing Recognition Scheme: Central Comfort has been quietly recording contribution since the first week. The records now exist. They are being shared. Merits have been accumulating without anyone knowing. Some residents have considerably more than they expected. The…
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And Now the Next Thing
The fourteenth week. A guitarist went to the Studio and held the guitar for ten minutes before playing. Then something settled. They played for an hour and are going back Thursday. A survivor is still here after a hard week, sitting in the Wellness Suite waiting area just to be near a room where...
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What Has Been Arranged for You
The thirteenth week. The Studio is open - lower western section, former storage, recording room and armchairs and instruments, a corridor window. The first person inside it spent forty minutes in the armchair with headphones on. The word they said when they left: Oh. Also: a survivor writes to…
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Two People Made a Decision
WARNING: THIS EPISODE CONTAINS REFERENCES TO SUICIDE Before this broadcast began, there was something in the week that needed its own section. Two residents were found in a lower western room. They had made a decision together. Daddy will not add clinical vocabulary to this. He will say only: he...
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The Hum Will Not Be Adjusted
Eleven weeks. Residents have been writing about the hum. The low harmonic frequency produced by the Thermal Regulation and Air Circulation System. Technically possible to reduce. Central Comfort has decided not to. The food complaints have been passed to the Kitchen Operations Team. This week a...
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The Kettle Was Answered
Ten weeks. A resident on Howard Road - third from the north end - put the kettle on. Someone knocked on Thursday. They talked for two hours about television and a dog she used to have. "I think I have made a friend. I'm not sure I deserve one, but there it is." Also: the cartography resident...
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I Am Here. I Am Safe.
Nine weeks. Before this broadcast begins, there are four things to say together. I am here. I am safe. I am held. I am known. Not a prayer. A statement of shared ground, four things true about every person in this building at the moment of saying them. Also this week: other places exist. Central...
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Four Residents at the Blast Door
Something happened this week. At fourteen minutes past two on Tuesday morning, four residents attempted to reach blast door airlock five. Two were diverted. Two partially released the primary interior seal. The secondary seal held. The outer door was not breached. All four are now in the Wellness...
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The Investigation Is Resolved
The recording investigation has been resolved. Central Comfort knows who made it. A warm direct address was made on air. Also this week: the HP-X393-2 forms are raised for the final time - Daddy held the instruction for a moment before passing it on, the first admission of a personal reaction to…
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Someone Is Drawing the Building
The Theatre Cube's first Psychiatric Carpenter wellbeing session drew four hundred and twelve residents. The first music submitted through proper channels arrives this week: Painted Shut, anonymous, Central Comfort holds the name. Daddy has been listening to it in his own time. Also: a resident…
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The First Hey-There Was About Soup
GGQ Chat went live on Thursday at noon. In the forty-eight hours since, this programme has received more letters than any previous week. The first Hey-There sent on this network was forty-two characters long and was about soup. Daddy has also found two more pieces from the Gathering recording -...
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Music from the Gathering
Someone recorded the Community Gathering without permission. Central Comfort is making enquiries. In the meantime, the recording has been approved for broadcast. Two original compositions by resident musicians: Neon Sun Daddy and Paper Box. Daddy knows what Paper Box means to the person who wrote...
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What Memory Boxes Actually Are
Someone made a recording at the Gathering. Also this week: the Memory Boxes. Daddy has been asked to clarify something. The Memory Boxes described last week - the physical objects, the photographs, the familiar smells assembled by the Thoughtful Retrieval Team - are not what he said they were. He...
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Gifts of Apology
Week two. The Community Gathering took place on Sunday - two thousand, eight hundred and ninety-one residents across eight slots. The three musicians played in every one. This week: Community Notices arrive as a new standing section, a resident on Wilde Road has commenced an Adjustment Period…
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The Doors Are Closed
Bunker Basket is a British adults-only audio drama and sleep podcast set in a sealed underground fallout shelter after nuclear war. In this first episode, Daddy introduces himself - and Bunker Basket South 5 - to its three thousand and forty-seven new residents. There are Entertainment Roundalls…
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Bunker Basket South 5
The doors are sealed. Central Comfort thanks you for finding us. Subscribe. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Bunker Basket is a British adults-only audio drama set in the aftermath of nuclear war. Post-nuclear Britain is barely survivable. The fallout shelter doors are closed. The surface world - London, the roads,...
About this show
Entertainment Funnel 4 is the weekly broadcast for residents of Bunker Basket South 5. It is a sealed underground community of over three thousand people, located beneath South London, following thermonuclear events that made the surface uninhabitable.Each week, Daddy - the warm, unhurried voice of Central Comfort - delivers community notices, letters from residents, music, guidance, and a reflection on life inside Bunker Basket. He knows your name. He knows what you need. He is glad you are here.Bunker Basket South 5 is a long-form dystopian "radio broadcast" designed to aid sleep and banish insomnia for those with apocalyptic imaginations.You are here. You are safe. You are held. You are known.Central Comfort thanks you for listening.
Hosted by
Dan Hall