Gravity conspiracies, Netflix's daring documentary, and a new portrait of Robert Burns: it's episode 4366 of The Bugle!
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The Bugle
4.8 • 6.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s Bugle Andy is joined by Tiff Stevenson and Josh Gondelman, as they discuss the week's biggest stories, from NASA debunking gravity conspiracies, Netflix's new daring documentary with free climber Alex Honnold, more on the unfolding events from the US and the new portrait of Scottish poet Robert Burns.
🍏 Gravity Conspiracy: Andy, Tiff and Josh, get their heads around the latest conspiracy theory, that gravity is to end for 7 seconds. They also throw in some of their own for good measure.
🧗 Netflix Daring Doc: Netflix's newly released doc, follows solo climber, Alex Honnold as he attempts to climb the 101 story Taiwan Skyscraper with no equipment!
🏴 Robert Burns' New Angle: The gang break down the discovery of a new portrait of Robert Burns, fittingly the morning after Burns Night.
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| 0:00.0 | The Bugle! Audio Newspaper for a visual world. |
| 0:14.1 | Hello, buglers, and welcome to issue 4,366 of the bugle, the universe is sole remaining |
| 0:20.6 | vestige of metaphactual hyper-truth and pure 200% |
| 0:24.3 | proof bullshit. I'm Andy Zaltzman coming to you live and recorded from the shed in London, |
| 0:30.6 | South London's most used venue for recording bugles. And I'm joined today to pick at the unappetising |
| 0:36.2 | leftovers of the world's horrendously unhealthy news diet. |
| 0:39.8 | By from London, Tiff Stevenson and from New York, Josh Gondelman. |
| 0:44.7 | Hello to both of you. |
| 0:46.7 | Hello. |
| 0:48.1 | And hello to you. |
| 0:49.8 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:51.7 | It's great to have you both housed, House, 2026, treating you, treating you so far. |
| 0:57.0 | Oh, Josh. |
| 0:59.0 | No, well, here's the thing. |
| 1:04.0 | America has been hit by a blinding, oppressive wave of whiteness this weekend. |
| 1:16.6 | And I don't, I don't, that's not clear whether I'm talking about the winter storm or, |
| 1:20.3 | uh, ice that has been ravaging the United States. |
| 1:27.2 | Ice is causing problems everywhere in many forms, it's fair to say. |
| 1:29.3 | That's it. |
| 1:35.8 | It has the giant storm that's hit America. |
| 1:40.8 | It seems to coincide Josh with Trump's bid for Greenland. |
| 1:44.6 | And it has been one of the very few things in my life that's made me think maybe there is a God that's, he said, well, if you want Greenland here, let's see how you get on with it as a |
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