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Iran, Trump, and Kerala goes through a name change

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The Bugle

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

4.8 โ€ข 6.7K Ratings

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ 4 March 2026

โฑ๏ธ 47 minutes

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Summary

On this week of The Bugle, Andy is joined by Ria Lina and Anuvab Pal as they unpack the turbulent week just gone, with attacks across the Middle East and the death of the Ayatollah, the supreme leader of Iran. The trio discuss Trump's next moves as well as it's clear to see he hasn't taken the Nobel Peace snub very well! And there's news from India that Kerala will now on go by a new name, but don't worry it's not too hard to remember. That's Bugle issue number 4370!


๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท Iran: Andy, Ria and Anuvab unpack the turbulent week, with attacks across the Middle East

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Trump: The trio discuss Trump's reaction and next moves, as he remains bitter over his Nobel Peace snub

๏ปฟ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ Kerala Name Change: Kerala, the most popular tourist spot in the country changes it's name


Andy's Links: andyzaltzman.co.uk


Ria Lina's Links: https://www.instagram.com/rialina_/


Anuvab Pal's Links: https://anuvabpal.com/


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0:00.0

That's right, the gargle is back. The glossy magazine. Pull-out section to the Bougall's audio newspaper for Visual World is back and better than ever. Check out our first episode, which is already live with the fantastic Alison Spiddle and John Luke Roberts, as we bring you all of the latest from the world of science and technology. All of the news now with some of the politics.

0:21.7

Watch us on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcast.

0:39.6

Hello, buglers, and welcome to... The Bugle, audio newspaper for a visual world.

0:48.5

Hello, buglers, and welcome to issue 4,370 of the world's leading and only audio newspaper for a visual world.

0:52.2

I am Andy Zaltzman in the shed of immutable truth.

0:54.3

And, well, let's be honest,

0:56.8

this is another one of those weeks in which if you happen to have a friend or relative

0:59.9

who chose to be cry genetically frozen in the year 1999

1:03.2

due to fears about the millennium bug,

1:05.5

I'll remember when that was the big worry facing humanity,

1:08.1

happier, simpler times,

1:09.5

and asked me woken up on March 26, but you misheard them as saying in March 26, instead

1:15.5

of on March 26th, anyway, they should have said 26th of March, if I meant 26th of March

1:19.9

2000.

1:20.3

The point is, if you've got a deeply frozen relative who you are just waking up now, 26 years into this millennium, good luck explaining the state of the world to your still de-frosting buddy or family member. They might need at least two cups of tea. But that is what the bugle is for. In fact, that's why we were originally commissioned by Times Online. Andy, John, they said, we need something to play in case, and this is a purely hypothetical scenario, the boss man ever wakes up from the freezer. There's obviously no truth in the rumor that there's been a body double playing him since the millennium. So, anyway, that's what we're here for. We're here to help explain the world to A, you, be ourselves. See anyone on the same train carriage as you whilst you play the bugle out loud on your phone speakers look ultra cool. D, your pupils, in case you're one of those bugle listening teachers, it just wax the show in the classroom when you want to properly educate your students and or can't be asked to tell them how stick in essence reproduce or why the war of Spanish succession has started, or why X is actually a number, if you say it's a number, or where the swimming pool is in French, or E, your aforementioned unfreezing fed. Where did this sentence begin? Oh, yeah, here to explain everything. I'm joined in this age of hyper and exaggeration by two of the wisest people in the history of the known universe. Ria Lina and Anuvab Powell. Hello, both of you. That is a lot of pressure that we're going to be here to explain everything.

2:36.7

Yeah.

2:37.2

I feel a lot of pressure.

2:38.4

Like, okay, all right.

2:40.5

I mean, can I explain it the way Trump explains stuff,

2:43.1

i.e. just make stuff up and decide it on a whim?

2:46.9

That's sort of how the show works.

2:48.5

In many ways, we set a very dangerous blueprint for the world through that.

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