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The Last Post

31. Brexit Day news

The Last Post

Chris Skinner

Weird, Fantasy, Alice Fraser, Daily, Andy Zaltzman, Science Fiction, Comedy, The Bugle, Team Bugle, Fiction, Comedy Fiction

4.8729 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Alice is joined by Andy Zaltzman and his aide James Nokise, to explore the happenings on this momentous day.


This is a Somethin' Else and Bugle Podcasts production.


This episode was produced by Ped Hunter and Chris Skinner.


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

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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.

0:26.1

God, what a hot sell this is. I mean, you must be so excited. Listen now. Something else.

0:45.3

The Bugle presents. The Last Post with Alice Fraser.

0:50.3

The Alice Fraser.

1:04.9

Hello, posters and welcome to the last post, the final word in this, the most final of worlds.

1:05.8

Today's episode is for the 31st of January of the year 2020, winding up the first 12th of the year,

1:12.5

assessing our New Year's resolutions.

1:14.7

And of course, today marks the start of the 2020 Oceania Wrestling Championships in Samoa.

1:20.2

And there are some Janiversaries.

1:21.7

I cannot believe I hadn't figured out Janiversaries until this, the last day of January.

1:25.6

But anniversaries for today in history, include in 1961 on the 31st of January, a chimpanzee called

1:32.2

Ham was sent into space by the United States and recovered alive and well.

1:37.1

So that's good.

1:38.2

You ended up where you began, but the chimp had a look in his eyes like he'd seen the stars

1:42.7

from up close.

1:43.5

It was also...

1:44.4

Or seen a dog, looking very cross, and communist.

1:48.6

Poor Leica, a tragedy.

1:50.5

In 1949, the 31st of January marks the first daytime soap opera,

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