AUKUS Gets Awkward (4205)
The Bugle
The Bugle
4.8 • 6.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Andy, Alice and Anuvab discuss submarines down under, politics with a punch in the Philippines, and the latest on face masks, remember them? (UK, we're looking at you).
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Andy Zaltzman
Alice Fraser
Anuvab Pal
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| 0:00.0 | The Bugle, audio newspaper for a visual world! |
| 0:15.3 | Hello, Bugleers, and welcome to issue 4205 of the Bugle audio newspaper for a visual |
| 0:22.2 | world. |
| 0:23.2 | The show where news comes to die. |
| 0:25.2 | I'm reporting to you from the Shed of Truth. |
| 0:27.6 | I'm Andy Zoltzman. |
| 0:28.6 | It is for the first time in history, Monday the 20th of September 2021, and I'm joined |
| 0:32.8 | this week to discuss their latest novels by Hampshire's very own Jane Austen and a man |
| 0:38.0 | who's just published his debut work of fiction, Mickey the Magic Teapot. |
| 0:41.5 | It's former American president Calvin Coolidge. |
| 0:44.3 | Calvin, starting with what, what, what do you mean they can't make it? |
| 0:48.5 | What, neither of them? |
| 0:50.2 | Is this an internet thing to the, do they not have zoom? |
| 0:53.2 | They don't have zoom? |
| 0:54.2 | Well what the f***? |
| 0:55.2 | Dead! |
| 0:56.2 | Both of them! |
| 0:57.2 | That's bad, have we got backups? |
| 0:59.3 | Right, we better go to the bench. |
| 1:01.4 | Joining me this week, all the way from the world's most aquatic hemisphere on one of the |
| 1:05.9 | very rare landy bits in Sydney, Australia, it's Alice Fraser. |
| 1:09.8 | Hello, Alice. |
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