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Gordon Brown gets a bad dose of the quits

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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

🗓️ 7 June 2009

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The 77th ever Bugle podcast, from 2009. Written and presented by Andy Zaltzman and John Oliver


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0:00.0

This is a Times Online podcast. The Bugle, Audio Newspaper for a Visual World.

0:17.0

Hello, buglers and welcome to buglers

0:24.8

to bugle number 77 for the week beginning Monday June the 8th 2009 yes you heard

0:31.1

me 2009 or at least I hope you heard me because if you didn't hear that bit,

0:34.8

we've got trouble for the rest of this podcast.

0:36.9

I'm Andy's Altman here in the geographically confirmed city of London,

0:40.1

and like a greedy worm, by which I mean he's right in the middle of the big apple

0:44.4

it's the incredible the inevitable the unshredable the non biodegradable lance corporal

0:50.4

laughter himself John Oliver.

0:52.8

No I am definitely biodegradable.

0:55.4

Really?

0:56.4

That's a biological fact.

0:58.0

Hello Andy, hello meuglers.

1:00.4

I'm back in the New York Groove.

1:05.0

What, mate? I don't know.

1:07.0

It's what I did this week.

1:08.0

We had to write a piece on Dick Cheney this week after he denied that he ever thought there was a link between Iraq and 9-11.

1:14.4

And this meant that I just spend a day going through old Cheney transcripts of things he

1:18.9

said over the last eight years and what this means that I now have the answer to the question what is the

1:24.0

worst way for the human soul to spend a day?

1:26.7

Because it turns out perhaps unsurprisingly that almost everything that came out of

1:31.2

that man's face was infuriating, antagonizing and depressing.

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