Media & Speaking

On camera, on air, on stage

Bradley Garrett is available for interviews, documentaries, keynotes and consulting. He has appeared on 60 Minutes, The Joe Rogan Experience, 99% Invisible, the History Channel and the BBC, and spoken at the Sydney Opera House, Google Zeitgeist, Tate Modern and the British Library.

Topics

Bunkers & doomsday preppingDisaster preparedness & resilienceTunnels & underground infrastructure Urban exploration & place hackingPublic space & the right to the cityNuclear shelters & civil defense Photographing hidden placesArchaeology, ruins & deep timeSurvival psychology & community

Watch

Television & film

  • 2026Doomsday Clock: The Final Countdown
  • 2025Underland, dir. Rob Petit, Sandbox Films. Nominated, Best Documentary Feature, Tribeca
  • 2025Life After People, ‘The Underground Rises’, History Channel
  • 2024Dr. Phil Primetime, Merit Street Media
  • 2024‘Prepper Cultures’, Nexus, TRT World
  • 202260 Minutes, CBS News, with Jon Wertheim
  • 2022The UnXplained with William Shatner, History Channel
  • 2021America’s Book of Secrets, History Channel
  • 2021To Tell the Truth, ABC
  • 2016Host, Underworld, virtual reality for the Guardian; screened at IDFA and CPH:DOX
  • 2013BBC Newsnight

Podcasts & radio

  • 2026Beyond with Aleksandra King
  • 2026Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse, two-time Webby nominee
  • 2025Host, Tenacity, Ubisoft Entertainment
  • 2025‘Are You Ready?’, BBC Radio 4
  • 2022Sideways, BBC Sounds
  • 2021‘The Doom Boom’, 99% Invisible
  • 2021Under the Skin with Russell Brand
  • 2021The Ryan Tubridy Show, RTÉ Radio 1
  • 2020The Joe Rogan Experience #1515
  • 2018Conversations with Richard Fidler, ABC
  • 2014Thinking Allowed and The Museum of Curiosity, BBC Radio 4

Selected talks & keynotes All 137 →

Festival of Dangerous Ideas, Sydney Opera HouseGoogle ZeitgeistTate ModernBarbican Centre British LibraryChicago Ideas WeekWIRED Next GenerationCheltenham Literature Festival 5×15, with Robert MacfarlaneTEDx Grosseto, Southampton & ViennaMcKinsey & Company Greater London AuthorityMAXI.kunst, Nuremberg

Press kit

Short bio · 50 words

Bradley L. Garrett is a cultural geographer, photographer and writer. The author of five books translated into four languages, including Bunker: Building for the End Times, he has written for The Atlantic, the Guardian and GQ, and appeared on 60 Minutes, 99% Invisible and The Joe Rogan Experience.

Longer bio · 100 words

Bradley L. Garrett is a cultural geographer, photographer and writer who works in the spaces beneath and beyond the everyday city. He is the author of five books translated into four languages, including Bunker: Building for the End Times, a New Statesman Book of the Year, and Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City. His writing appears in The Atlantic, the Guardian, GQ, Vox and The Telegraph, and his work has featured on 60 Minutes, 99% Invisible and The Joe Rogan Experience. He has held posts at Oxford, Sydney and University College Dublin, and is writing Groundbreaking for St. Martin’s Press.

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Get in touch

For commissions, documentaries, interviews, keynotes and consulting.

Email

[email protected]

Based in the Mojave Desert, California. Available worldwide.

Literary representation

Rebecca Carter
Rebecca Carter Literary

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