A Mostly F***ING BLEAK-Free Bugle!
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🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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This week, Andy Zaltzman is joined by 'quibbling sibling' Helen Zaltzman and Josh Gondelman for a mostly F***ING BLEAK-free episode full of satire, jigsaw news and punctuation puns.
🇨🇦 In Canada news:
🧩 US-Canada trade war means jigsaw business owners are left picking up the pieces
👑 King Charles visits the colonies with promises of arming an ordinarily placid country
🇺🇸 In USA news:
☎️ Big Beautiful Bill resolute in bid to reach Trump's desk
🤑 Food 'sucked' at Trump's $148m meme coin dinner
📖 In Books and Language news:
🤖 AI-generated summer reading list published in newspapers
；Semicolon usage on the decline
⛅️ In Light in the Darkness news:
☀️ Solar panels in space to transmit electricity to Earth
🧠 Feeling awe helps mental health
🎧 Listen to our sci-fi and fantasy comedy show Realms Unknown hosted by Bugle favourite Alice Fraser, and pick up her book A Passion for Passion here: http://uk.bookshop.org/shop/RealmsUnknown
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| 0:00.0 | The Bugle! Audio Newspaper for a visual world. |
| 0:14.3 | Hello, buglers and welcome to issue 4,342 of the bugle Audio newspaper for a visual but crucially also |
| 0:23.9 | audio world. I am Andy Zaltzman, no-time grime |
| 0:27.8 | DJ of the year, bringing you all some of the news from this |
| 0:31.8 | under-pressure planet of ours from the unique point of view of being a member |
| 0:35.7 | of its best-known species. Joining me today, two fellow members of that species. |
| 0:41.2 | Firstly, all the way from Vancouver in what is currently still Canada, |
| 0:46.6 | it's the quibbling sibling, Helen's Olstman. |
| 0:49.4 | Hello, Helen. |
| 0:50.5 | Hello, Andy. |
| 0:51.9 | So sorry about your Grime DJ career. |
| 0:54.0 | Really good to turn out how we hoped. |
| 0:56.7 | Well, you know... |
| 0:58.0 | It's never too late to fulfil a dream in life. |
| 1:02.3 | That's the spirit. |
| 1:03.6 | Yes. How's Vancouver? |
| 1:07.6 | Well, everyone's out in the streets waving little union jacks |
| 1:11.1 | oh yes tossing tiny crowns in the air and whooping |
| 1:14.5 | we'll come to this very shortly |
| 1:18.4 | yeah they don't even know the king's here it's just a normal day |
| 1:21.2 | and uh joining us well |
| 1:26.2 | probably wishing that America could be taken over by Canada, |
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