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Giant Asteroid, War and Dragons (4222)

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

4.86.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Andy is with Alice Fraser and Anuvab Pal to deliberatly not do Ukraine as the top story (don't worry doom fans, we still cover it). Featuring asteroids, fruit and dragons!


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The Bugle is hosted this week by:

Andy Zaltzman

Alice Fraser

Anuvab Pal


Produced a Chris Skinner and the Ross Ramsey


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0:00.0

The Bugle, audio newspaper for a visual world.

0:14.9

Hello, Bugleers, and welcome to issue 4,222 of the Bugle audio newspaper for a f***ing ridiculous

0:24.6

world with me and exotment coming to exclusively live from London planet earth where once again the

0:30.8

other 7 licensed planets in our solar system are looking on in bafflement thinking sometimes

0:35.9

I'm grateful to be so uninhabitable. It is the 28th of february, 2022 as we will record it will be

0:40.8

March by the time you hear this and this week's featured background noise on the bugle is a primeval

0:46.3

howl of baffled confusion. I'm joined to contribute to that howl by two people who I strongly suspect

0:51.2

are not either natural war mongers or Vladimir Putin fans from Australia it's Alice Fraser and from

0:57.8

India Anuva pal hello hello both of you how have you enjoyed week one of world war three.

1:04.4

I mean it's been delightful I think you've got me wrong here and in assuming that I'm not of Vladimir

1:08.8

Putin fan as I as I always change from the sidelines horse horse yes he can if they can't ride

1:15.3

and no one can I don't know I think he should stick to the thing that he's good at which is extremely

1:21.1

posed photographs of him riding shirt loss on a horse and not looking quite as good as you should

1:26.4

to do that. Anuva how has India been this strange week? Well I'm glad you're asking Andy Alice you

1:37.7

know we're taking a slightly different approach in Mumbai I'm learning Chinese in case

1:43.3

Premier Xi Jinping starts getting some ideas from Putin and heads are way claiming all Indians are

1:49.3

ethnically Chinese anyway the other big learning I've had this week is I found out Ukrainian

1:56.4

president Vladimir Zolensky or Vladimir have it's pronounced was the voice of Paddington in the

2:03.3

Ukrainian version of Paddington and that is my favorite movie and I don't know if you know

2:08.9

this Andy Alice but Zolensky and I started around the same time as comedians and I always

2:15.3

compared my career to his and I got a bit jealous when he became a world leader because it was a

2:21.8

gig I was up for but he got but but the voice of Paddington that really hooked.

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