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Bugle 4014 – How bad can it get in a week?

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Nish Kumar, Hari Kondabolu, Alice Fraser, Politics, News, News Commentary, John Oliver, Tiff Stevenson, Chris Addison, Mildly Informed, Andy Zaltzman, Urncast, The Gargle, Satire, Comedy, Test Match Special, Top Stories, The Last Post

4.86.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

As the former star of Ghosts Can't Do It settles into his latest job, Andy and Nish find it hard to talk about much else.

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0:00.0

Dancelaguard fans, you will be thrilled to know a book is coming out if you fund it via Unbound.

0:05.8

We are publishing the Dancelaguard Reader by Alice Fraser and Dancelaguard,

0:09.8

a glorious insight into the world of Dancelaguard, self-published romance maven,

0:14.8

and online bestseller. If you would like to find out how to support it, go to thebugelpodcast.com.

0:20.8

If we get enough support, we will publish the book. That's a real thing that's going to happen.

0:24.5

Thebugelpodcast.com to support the Dancelaguard Reader.

0:30.0

This is TheBugel.

0:45.5

Thebugel, audio newspaper for a visual world.

0:49.6

Hello, Bugelers and welcome to issue 4,014 of TheBugel Audio Newspaper for a remorselessly visual world.

0:59.2

And this planet is one remaining hope of salvation.

1:02.3

I'm sorry, I'm just hearing we have been downgraded. We are in fact just background noise in the

1:06.4

slide to oblivion. Sorry, I'm already talking this up. I'm Andy Zoltzman, third in line to the throne

1:11.6

of America. I'm not necessarily true. I am live in Cochlan. That is Cochlan in the city of London,

1:19.8

rather than the Washington D.C. street formerly known as Pennsylvania Avenue. Back in the studio

1:25.1

in Cochlan, we recorded here a few times before and as previously discussed on a bugle some time ago.

1:33.1

This famous street gave the world the scandal of the Cochlan Ghost Fraud of 1762.

1:40.6

Back when you could make up bullshit like a ghost called Scratching Fanny.

1:44.8

And get away with it and people didn't mind.

1:47.6

And just around the corner from where John Bunyan, the platinum selling 17th century Methodist author

1:52.3

and pin up, popped his clogs in 1688. Good move, Bunyan, you're well out of this mess.

1:57.5

And joining me here within a stone's throw of St Paul's Cathedral, if you've got a tidy throwing

2:03.6

arm and an aerodynamic stone and you get a favourable ricochet off a couple of buildings.

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