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4.8 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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This week, Andy Zaltzman is joined by Josie Long and Josh Gondelman for a turbulent episode stacked with big beautiful bills, endless Norwegian funds and outrageously rich pets.

Produced by Chris Skinner, Laura Turner and Ross Ramsey-Golding

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0:00.0	The Bugle! Audio Newspaper for a visual world.
0:14.5	Hello buglers and welcome to issue 4,346 of the bugle audio newspaper for a visual and frankly toasty world.
0:23.9	Right now, I'm Andy Zaltzman coming to you live from the swelterous city of Birmingham
0:28.6	where angels fear to threaten.
0:31.0	No, so not where angels for the cricket, which begins tomorrow, the second England
0:36.6	and the India test match.
0:38.8	And with the tentative sort of ceasefire holding in the radio-Israeliak,
0:43.1	will they, won't they, military, spat?
0:45.1	It is looking increasingly likely that we might get all of the England-India cricket series
0:49.7	in before the world is enveloped in an apocalyptic species ending Nuukov.
0:53.4	So I'm in a good mood this week and to share this joy with me.
0:58.2	I'm joined firstly from New York City by Josh Gondelman.
1:02.2	Hello, Josh.
1:03.2	Hello, it is a real joy, despair roller coaster over here,
1:08.8	and I'm glad to be riding it with you for a little while.
1:13.3	And also joining us from Glasgow. It's Josie Long. Hello, Josie. Hello from the place
1:19.8	most likely to be instantly vaporized in the UK in a nuclear conflict. Right next to those
1:26.6	nukes over in wherever they are. Is it Fasline? Over in F nuclear conflict. Right next to those nukes over in wherever they are.
1:29.5	Fasline?
1:30.2	Over in Faslane.
1:31.6	Is that secret?
1:32.5	Are we supposed to share that on a podcast?
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