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4.8 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

AI warehouse Wonka gives us one of the stories of the year, plus despots buying crazy gifts, billionaire weddings and weirdos getting elected. Plus, what's an appropriate logo for a business?

Andy is with Josie Long, Felicity Ward and Anuvab Pal. This show was recorded in Glasgow and Norwich. We are on tour!

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This episode was presented and written by:

Andy Zaltzman
Anuvab Pal
Felicity Ward
Josie Long

And produced by Laura Turner and Chris Skinner

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Transcript

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0:00.0	The Bugle, audio newspaper for a visual world.
0:14.0	Hello Buglers, I am Andy Zoltzman and welcome to episode 4,293 of The Bugel.
0:22.0	This is a Bugle live special comprising highlights from not just
0:26.2	one, not just three, but actually two live Bugle shows recorded on Friday the 1st of March in Glasgow and Sunday the 3rd in Norwich.
0:35.6	Over the next X minutes where X is the number of minutes our supreme overlord
0:40.5	producer Chris has decided is appropriate for this week's bugle so
0:43.8	probably somewhere between 2 and 600 you will hear me Josie long who did the
0:48.8	Glasgow show felicity Ward who did Norwich and Anu V., who did both joining us via the internet from run by,
0:55.2	speaking truth to power, and speaking bullshit to power, and truth and bullshit to things that
1:00.8	aren't particularly powerful as well. It's the bugle.
1:03.6	That's sort of how we generally roll powers not listening anyway, so we might as well
1:07.9	say what we want. Anyway, here are your highlights from the first two shows of our UK tour in front of our truly stunning bugle live audiences.
1:16.7	Let's start with some anniversaries. Third of March, we are recording on the third of March. On this day in 1857, France and the
1:29.7	United Kingdom declared war on China. It was the second opium war and to show the heroic
1:39.3	civilizing influence of Victorian Britain on the world it It was a war, a just, noble,
1:44.5	divinely ordained war in which Britain forced the legalization of the opium trade
1:50.2	onto China when we consolidated our position as the world's leading drug dealer.
1:56.2	So...
1:58.2	Good on you guys.
2:00.2	You've done some good things in this world and that is definitely one of them.
2:05.0	So yeah, that's not too many statues of that.
2:08.0	I think that's part of the history that we don't like to talk about.
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