Mourning Has Broken (4240)
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🗓️ 20 September 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Andy is with Tiff and Anuvab to look back at a momentous moment in blah blah blah, platitude, honour, homage, anecdote, respect. Goodbye to the Q-Unit, we'll miss you.
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This episode was written and presented by
Andy Zaltzman
Tiff Stevenson
Anuvab Pal
And produced by Chris Skinner
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| 0:00.0 | The Bugle, audio newspaper for a visual world! |
| 0:13.4 | Hello Bugles and welcome to the first ever Bugle to be recorded in a United Kingdom |
| 0:20.1 | reigned over by a king. |
| 0:23.2 | Since we last puddled into your ears, the Queen, do or noun Queen and Procel Liberty, |
| 0:28.9 | non-executive head of state of our British hearts and nation for over 70 years died. |
| 0:34.4 | At the age of 96, since then, there's been a period of official national mourning, the |
| 0:39.0 | Q to End All Q's, a state funeral attended by so many world leaders that the TV commentator |
| 0:43.9 | simply gave up trying to guess who was who and still less where they were from. |
| 0:47.5 | We've had the biggest fancy dress parade in living memory and now we have a nervous |
| 0:51.7 | wake to find out what kind of country emerges from the scratch card of history as normality |
| 0:56.3 | research itself. Yes, after 70 years of unbroken queenery and 134 out of the last 185 years, |
| 1:05.0 | we now have a queue of kings lined up, starting with Charles stretching out beyond the span |
| 1:10.8 | of living imagination to a distant time when King George VII rules over the last remaining |
| 1:15.2 | visible peak of the Scottish Highlands. So here we are, I am Andy Zoltzmann and I am |
| 1:21.3 | now officially a subject with which I am not entirely comfortable of Prince Charles, |
| 1:29.8 | who was well of King Charles, Prince Charles of course constitutionally instantaneously |
| 1:34.8 | rebranded as King Charles III aka KC III or triple choppy or cha cha Charles or Chazie |
| 1:42.8 | Spangelhat as you wish, providing the continuity that royalty and monarchy bring to our increasingly |
| 1:47.3 | fractured and politically chiseled land to reflect on all we have seen and experienced |
| 1:52.0 | these last two weeks. For this issue 4,240 of the bugle I am joined by firstly by a woman |
| 1:58.8 | who was not chosen to give a reading at the Queen's funeral for reasons that remain |
| 2:02.3 | unclear to this day. Tiffany Stephenson. Hello, hi, I think Chucky III is actually revenge |
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