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🗓️ 15 October 2007

⏱️ 35 minutes

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The first ever episode of The Bugle! Written and presented by Andy Zaltzman and John Oliver

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Bugle, audio newspaper for a visual world, the new satirical podcast
0:18.1	from Times Online, edition number one, Monday October the 15th, 2007 with me, Andy Zoltzman
0:24.1	here in London and in America, John Oliver.
0:26.8	Hello Andy, hello world, but most importantly, hello Andy.
0:31.3	Thanks John, so how is America?
0:33.8	It's doing its best, or anyone can ask of the land.
0:37.0	Inside today's multi-section google, special news feature on the war on terror, are you
0:41.5	bored of it too, or is peace overrated?
0:45.5	Entertainment, the Nobel Prizes upon us, we now know all the individual category winners,
0:50.9	who will be declared, overall, Nobel champion of the world, 2007.
0:59.5	As with any newspaper, even an audio newspaper like this, some sections do go straight
1:04.0	in the bin.
1:05.0	Today, those sections are the travel section, will people please stop going to Heathrow
1:08.2	Airport, it was designed by Heronymous Bosch.
1:11.4	Just recycle it.
1:12.7	And also in the bin is the special lifestyle section, you and your stationery.
1:16.8	Why is it in there Andy, that is a needlessly heavy piece of sound.
1:26.1	So today's top news story, Iraq, how well is it actually going?
1:31.0	Quite badly, I would say.
1:32.8	Give it time Andy, give it time.
1:34.5	I have given it quite a lot of time.
1:36.6	Well, just give it a bit more time, you never know, it might yet surprise you.
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