Chapter 1: What is the main topic of the bunker hunting adventure?
Hello. Hello. Hello. Oh, hi. Hello. Andrew. Hello. Andrew's forehead. Hello, mate. How are you? How are you? Yeah, really well. I'm slightly embarrassed we didn't do it without headphones when we did it.
We've got the best tech guys on it now. We're on it.
We've got some of the best tech guys in the world. I just, yeah, David went, well, why are we doing it with headphones?
Do you know what? When I rang you out, I was like, fuck me, I'm calling Joe for tech advice.
That's a low moment.
Right, should we explain to Joe? We thought we'd just do five minutes now. This is like an amuse-bouche.
Okay, I want to know everything. Where are you?
So, we are in... Don't tell him. We're in Branscombe, or near Branscombe, in East Devon.
Near the coast, isn't it, I think?
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Chapter 2: How do David and Andrew prepare for their bunker search?
So is that now full, essentially, of mud? Yes.
This is where the roof is here. You know that corrugated iron that you were in in Coalfield?
Yeah.
So this is this up here. This is the ring pier. Oh, okay. It would have curved over, and what's happened is that there's been so much earth, it's collapsed. Right, and what's it? The entrance is somewhere here.
Yeah, right. So you're basically standing to the left of, like, directly above it, and then... Yeah, so I'm on the entrance here.
So this is where the hack is. Oh, I see. The blast wall is about here. And then that's the main chamber. Then you see the curve there and the brickwork. That's into the storage bit where the toilet was. And then it goes out to the escape tunnel on the other side.
Andrew, how would you... Would one of your colleagues or yourself just spotted that tiny bit of wall?
Yes. And gone, God, you've got to be on the lookout. We've had clues that there's one in this area.
What clue did you get?
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Chapter 3: What clues lead them to the potential bunker location?
So where we're standing at the moment is on where... is on top of where... So that's why the engine hatch is here, because actually you're going down under this roof.
And that's lasted... That's all brick, so that's why that's lasted, isn't it?
Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So we're right on top here. This is why it seems weird that the hatch is the same level as the roof, but because that you go down and then underneath.
And there's no way of...
of not conserving it but sort of digging it out and seeing more well we have we have got permission to dig this one out so at some point in the near future we're going to bring the equipment to dig it out because we're... Theory's 11.
Andrew, can we put you in now? Can we hold up your process, basically?
The exciting thing about this one is we're not sure when it collapsed. So it might have collapsed really early on, in which case it would have preserved anything that's left in there.
It's just 70 or 80 years worth of... So you need it to be slightly shoddily built.
Correct. Well, that's the only way you find... Because if this was intact... You're walking down there and the roof's still in. There's no way you'd find it. Sometimes you do need a collapse. You need a collapse to be able to identify it.
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Chapter 4: What historical context do they provide about WWII bunkers?
And then they went to the shore. Okay, where are we going to put it? He said, well, put it up. So it didn't take that long because the nature of the people they were recruiting, because they knew the land, were landowners, were farmers, knew the area.
Occasional poacher, I read as well.
Correct. Occasional poacher.
All these were built in a three-year period. Wow. Isn't it just?
Well, I found it fascinating how early they prepped. You know what I mean? It was like, I might be wrong here, but almost as the war started, they were going, we need to be thinking about if there's an invasion.
And Section 7, like the post-occupation, post-defeat, was kind of, we think, like February, March 1940. So even before any disaster had happened in mainland Europe, we were already preparing for the fact that we might be occupied.
Mad. Yeah. Mad. Because you sort of, when you first talked about it, I imagined it was like in the last year of the, you know, like, well into the war going, oh shit, we better, but generally the government don't go, oh shit. Well. Well, they do now.
Yeah, they do. But yeah, yeah, we were, and you know, this is my whole, thing that I go on and on about is that we have this perception of kind of Britain as this unprepared weak alone pathetic country just waiting to be invaded but we were anything anything but that we were massively prepared across you know all areas um aux units and special duties branch of section seven but even the
Dave and I were talking about pillboxes and tank lines and stop lines and, you know, all this stuff was in place. Loads of regulars. We had an Air Force plan under Dowding that was completely designed for this exact scenario of the Battle of Britain that we just rolled out and the Germans were never going to beat us in that.
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Chapter 5: What challenges do they face while searching for the bunker?
So, the bunker is off a zigzag in a road, then down a hill by a rhododendron bush.
Oh, bloody hell. Pick the bones up.
Also, what got me excited, you don't know what's in it.
I'm just thinking, well, what's the chances of the bush still being there? What about, did they say name of woods? Did they give name of woods?
Yeah, they called it, I don't know, we want to... If we find it intact, I'm not sure we want to give away.
Okay, yeah, don't tell me. But I gave you the name of the woods.
Yeah, so we got the name of the woods and we got the name of the road.
What road? What road next to the woods?
Yeah.
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Chapter 6: What interesting findings do they encounter during their search?
I get this, Andrew. I'm going to want to call this episode Bunker Hunters.
Right, this is a zigzag.
Can I see the zigzag, David?
Well, it's like the start of the lane.
The road comes from up there. Is that a zigzag? Yeah, it's a zigzag. Andrew, any idea whether we should be looking... Your sense of when you look around, you go, we found bunkers more in that looking area?
I'd go down, I think. Why would you go down? I think it's too steep to put a bunker in. Doesn't it say top of this road? Top of the road and then down. It says down as well.
There's little cops here. What's a rhododendron look like? Do you know what a rhododendron looks like?
Yeah. I mean, this rhododendron bush was there 84 years ago, so chances are... I think... Can I go back to the info?
So the lady said her dad said... On his deathbed, there's a bunker near the zigzag next to our road attention.
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Chapter 7: How do they confirm if they've found the bunker?
Yeah, you don't want to do it on the actual slope, but then when it's flattened off enough, it's easier to build the bunker.
What do you do when you find one to celebrate?
he normally sings a song he sings a song a lovely song he's got a lovely song he's written is it bad luck to sing it before you've found a bunker yeah it is very much it's got a really high voice it goes on for about six minutes does it sound like erasure this is how confident I am of not finding it here we go oh here we go
Bit of a dip in the land here.
Hold on, there's a clue here. Right, right. I like the fact that, David, you've both darted forward.
Well, I think that it suddenly dips down. It's always an interesting sign. What, are you saying something might have collapsed there?
Might have collapsed there, yeah.
Can you see it? Yeah. There's a big old hole over there, actually.
And you've got the drop there, which could have had the escape tunnel pop out of. Do you ever look at the... go down that bit there and look along for the tunnel along... The drop, maybe. You know, like... No.
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Chapter 8: What are the implications of their findings for historical research?
That's insane.
Do you want me to go at length? We'll pretend we haven't found it and we'll come back.
No, I'm just thinking, could we find another one, please? You see how it sinks? Oh, my God.
We're part of history. It's on the ground.
So is Sean not convinced? Sean's never convinced. He's not happy. Sean, you've got to sing in a minute.
Joe, I've been doing this for so long. This never happens.
We don't go, oh, let's walk down there. Oh, look, there's that.
He's exhausted, by the way. Well, I mean, look, it's the perfect place for it. Perfect place for it. I mean, it could be down there, couldn't it?
Down there, yeah.
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