2024 so far. Perfectly normal.

The Bugle

Andy Zaltzman, Mildly Informed, Satire, Tiff Stevenson, Test Match Special, The Gargle, John Oliver, Hari Kondabolu, Nish Kumar, Chris Addison, Politics, Top Stories, The Last Post, News, Comedy, News Commentary, Alice Fraser, Urncast

4.8 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

What a year it has been! The Bugle takes a look at some highlights from 2024 so far, featuring Donald Trump, Taylor Swift, Google and a snap UK election.

The Bugle will return after a summer recess.

Written and presented by Andy Zaltzman, Nish Kumar, Alice Fraser, Chris Addison, Anuvab Pal, Tiff Stevenson, Nato Green, Josh Gondelman.

And produced by Chris Skinner and Laura Turner.

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0:00.0	The Bugle, audio newspaper for a visual world.
0:14.0	Hello Buglers and welcome to another Bonus Bugle issue 4,312 sub-ep episode B for back in a few weeks,
0:22.0	but currently still on our break. I am Andy's
0:24.2	Altman as we speak I am communing with cantabrian cheeses I can barely
0:27.9	pronounce and of course spending most of my time looking forward to seeing you
0:31.8	all in person during my imminent stand-up tour
0:34.3	beginning in November running through to 2025 details at Andyzaltsman.co.
0:40.3	UK. Whilst you're feverishly booking your tickets to see the Zaltgeist, let's take this moment to look back on what has been quite an eventful
0:47.7	2024 so far, a year that still has a pretty good shout at being one of the best four years of the decades so far.
0:55.6	And what a close-fork competition that is proving to be like an Olympic gymnastics final
1:00.4	might all come down to whether it can nail the dismount.
1:03.0	We are going to do this chronologically, so here is...
1:06.0	Hang on, let me check my calendar.
1:08.0	January, January 2024.
1:11.0	Top story this week, 2024 has begun, yes as I said another new year and it's set to be a year of
1:17.0	contests, conflicts, frankly harrowing match-ups and the kind of head-to-head encounters that make you feel like
1:23.2	head-butting yourself in despair at what we're doing to ourselves as a species.
1:27.4	And this week on the Bugle we look at some of the defining contests that are going
1:31.2	to shape this year of contests and well let's start with the
1:35.9	defining contest that looks set to be the most defining and contested defining
1:39.7	contest of the year and that is Donald Trump against American democracy.
1:45.0	Are you both excited at the prospect of well what ten months now of pure unadulterated inescapable trumpian horror.
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