Bunker Basket

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 residents in care to fourteen. Nine additional intakes this week. Central Comfort reached toward peopl...

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 morning at nine on Funnel 2, the oldest promise in this broadcast delivered. A floor manager from Hawley-E...

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 appeared on every phone. The music from the Record Shop stopping when someone locked the door. Brixton...

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 stop thinking about it before sleep. Daddy cannot give the full answer tonight. Tonight's Reflection begin...

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 Merit can be redeemed for small comforts. An egg costs five. Also: a guitarist went back on Thursday and p...

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 people are being looked after. An Affirmation card sits on a windowsill next to a watch from before and...

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 tell Daddy that something happened in the preceding weeks that she will not detail tonight. She has been...

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 loved them. Also: a song called Still Here arrived Monday before Wednesday. One voice, no instrumentati...

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 song called The Sound of Air arrives - a resident who lay in the dark and really listened and wrote: "Th...

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 answered every question submitted via CCR. The nine-year-old's group is now three. A song arrives called Th...

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 Comfort is in contact with them. The condition of those places will not be disclosed tonight. The popul...

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 Suite - not because they want to be, but because they need to be. Also: the cartography session took p...

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 a Central Comfort directive. The Education Funnel continues to require certainty before it can open. A...

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 has been making a map of this building since the third week and has agreed to present it. A resident de...

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 - Heavy Led Door and Tin Cup Comfort - and is not sure whether the first title is a description or a decla...

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 it and will not share it. Also this week: GGQ Chat launches Thursday - your screen name is your road...

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 is quite sure he never said that. What Memory Boxes actually are is something altogether different: se...

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, and Memory Boxes have been delivered to those affected by the Roundall installation delay. Each box was a...

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 to install, hydroponic farms to explain, and questions about the world outside that will not be answere...

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, the sky - is gone, or altered beyond recognition. What remains is this: a sealed underground community...