Iran bans puppies, and other stories from the Middle East
The Bugle
The Bugle
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🗓️ 17 June 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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This week, Andy Zaltzman is joined by Tiff Stevenson and Tom Ballard to untangle a world that's somehow too serious and too stupid—often at the same time.
🔥 Top Story: Iran & Israel — tensions escalate, missiles fly, and peace remains as elusive as a rational online comment section.
🐕 Also in Iran: forget cats with attitude—dog walking is now banned. We unpack the leash-tightening madness.
☀️ Meanwhile, the summer solstice brings light and… an AUKUS defence deal? Yes, nothing says sunshine like submarines.
🎺 And in the USA, Trump’s latest parade blares its way through logic and decency—again.
💬 Expect sharp satire, international nonsense, and at least one excellent pun.
📺 Watch our visual fantasy-comedy show Realms Unknown on YouTube.
Produced by Chris Skinner and Laura Turner. And Chris's dog Daphne.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Buglers. It's producer Chris here. I just wanted to very quickly tell you about my new podcast, Moldly Informed, which is in podcast feeds and YouTube right now. |
| 0:09.8 | Quite simply, it's a show where me and my friend Richie review literally anything. |
| 0:15.8 | So please come join us wherever you get your podcasts right now. |
| 0:19.9 | Ah! Ha ha ha! Come join us, wherever you get your podcasts right now. |
| 0:33.7 | The Bugle, Audio Newspaper for a Visual World. |
| 0:42.1 | Hello, buglers, and welcome to issue 4,345 of The Bugle, the audio newspaper for a visual world. Hello, buglers, and welcome to issue 4,345 of the bugle, the audio newspaper for a visual world that holds up a mirror to the world that holds it up the wrong way round. |
| 0:45.9 | All the world can see is the picture of rabies-addle pole cats fighting to the death that is |
| 0:50.0 | painted in graphic detail on the back of the mirror. |
| 0:52.9 | No, sorry, I didn't turn around. |
| 0:54.7 | That's just the way the world is. |
| 0:55.8 | That would explain the aging white man floundering around talking absolute bullshit |
| 0:58.9 | while I was watching in the mirrored side, |
| 1:00.8 | although that also worked both way arounds as well. |
| 1:02.6 | Anyway, joining me for an ages installment in the long-running real-life computer game |
| 1:06.6 | that is humanity slide into oblivion. |
| 1:09.2 | Two people who, as far as I am aware, |
| 1:10.9 | have never launched tip-for-tat aerial bombardments |
| 1:13.0 | on their near neighbours |
| 1:13.8 | that bring the planet skipping |
| 1:15.1 | to the precipice of oblivion, |
| 1:16.4 | but what do I know? |
| 1:17.4 | From Australia, it's Tom Ballard. |
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