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The Bugle, audio newspaper for a visual world!

Hello Bugles and welcome to Bugle Number 35!

For the week beginning June 30th, 2008 with me, Andy Zoltzman,

in the majestic city of London, and in New York City, it's Mr John Oliver.

Hello, bugles! I ate beer this week. I don't want to get into how. The fact is, I ate beer.

I feel I have the power of the beer coursing through me. I've been misunderstood as cuddly by children.

I've gone to the Pondhoney and I've chased picnickers up trees.

You know, that's no different from your average week, John.

Oh, that is a good point. I ate beer in Estonia.

You think you ate it in a sausage? Well, yeah.

But by eating a sausage, it's not roulette. Most of us are probably statistically in bear at some point.

It's the ultimate raffle.

So, it's the week beginning, the 13th of June, 2008, which means, John, it's 100 years to the second

since the Tunguska explosion. When a big, naughty asteroid calls Merry Havoc in Siberia,

impacting the arse out of over 2,000 square kilometers of completely irrelevant land

and mercilessly slaughtering 18 million trees. Since then, John, pretty much nothing from the asteroids.

So, have they given up the ghost? Have they seen how effective we are at destroying our own planet

and realise that they are wasting their time? I don't know. I'm not an asteroid.

As always, some sections of the bugle go straight in the bin. This week, to mark the year 2008 passing

its halfway point at the end of June, we look back to the year 2004.

Pope John the 18th hit the Vatican in a big way that year, and the bugle investigates.

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