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

4.86.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Have the Gates of Hell opened? What do we do with all these rhinos? Does the UK even have a north? And who is in the bin this week? Rupert Murdoch, that's who!


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This episode was presented and written by:


  • Andy Zaltzman
  • Ian Smith
  • Josh Gondelman


And produced by Chris Skinner and Laura Turner



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0:00.0

The Bugle, audio newspaper for a visual world.

0:13.9

Hello Googlers and welcome to issue 4,275 of the world's foremost source of reliably

0:20.8

unreliable half-truth speculation and analysis of the latest developments in the human race's

0:25.4

fierce battle with itself in the evolutionary race.

0:28.4

I am Andy Zoltzman, Lord of all I survey, albeit that the only surveys I do are of me,

0:34.2

and it's time to do this week's survey.

0:35.7

Right now, in fact, here's the first question we'll survey.

0:38.4

Do you think Andy Zoltzman should remain as host of the Bugle podcast?

0:41.7

I think I'll put down, don't know, no change in the polling on that one.

0:46.4

It is the 25th September 2023, and today I'm joined from the unremittingly utopian Harmony

0:51.5

Fest and glittering beacon of mutual tolerance and respect that is the United States of America

0:56.5

by Josh Gondelman.

0:57.5

Josh, welcome back to the Bugle.

0:59.0

How are you?

1:00.0

I'm well thinking, happy to be an utopian correspondent.

1:03.6

And also joining us here in London, in the enduring land of grudgery and recriminational

1:08.4

stroppled and that it's the UK, it's the one last best hope for a brighter future,

1:13.2

Ian Smith.

1:14.2

Ian, can you live up to that height?

1:15.2

Oh, I don't know, it's a lot of pressure, isn't it?

1:18.2

It is.

1:19.2

I think you're right.

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