220: U-turn news
The Last Post
Chris Skinner
4.8 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
John-Luke Roberts the Royal graces us with his omni-potent presence today on the last post with some fascinating insights on the governments rebranding campaign in U-turn news…before they changed their mind.
Listen back to John-Luke and his regal reporting on Sleep News (episode 82) and to then compliment that perfectly, coffee news (episode 152).
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's producer Chris from the Bugle here. Did you know that I have a new series of my podcast, |
| 0:04.9 | Richie Firth Travel Hacker, out now. It's the show where Richie Firth and I talk about how to make |
| 0:10.4 | travel better in our very special way. In this series, we discuss lime bikes, Tesla's, the London |
| 0:18.1 | Overground and a whole bunch of other random stuff that possibly involves wheels or tracks or engines of some variety. |
| 0:25.6 | God, what a hot sell this is. I mean, you must be so excited. Listen now. |
| 0:34.6 | When passions run high And secrets run deep |
| 0:37.9 | When plots twist and turn and turn and twist |
| 0:41.3 | When you love and loathe characters in equal measure |
| 0:44.8 | Oh I think she's a wrongan |
| 0:46.4 | Yeah, it's the shifty eyes |
| 0:48.0 | Nothing brings us together like great TV |
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| 1:20.7 | The Bugle presents the Last Post with Alice Fraser. Hello, posters and welcome to the last post, the final word in this, the most final of worlds. |
| 1:35.8 | Today's episode marks the 7th of August of the year 2020, aka episode 220 of 2020. |
| 1:43.7 | On this day in history, in 1782, George Washington, as commander of the Continental Army, |
| 1:49.0 | created the Purple Heart Medal, finally scrapping previously tabled draft medals for courage, |
| 1:55.1 | including the telltale heart, the big brass balls and the empurpled organ. |
| 2:00.2 | And in 1934, on this date, the U. the US Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling |
| 2:04.6 | striking down the government's attempt to ban the controversial James Joyce novel, |
| 2:09.5 | Ulysses, guaranteeing that it would be half read by university students looking for porn |
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