Not Enough Boffins (4191)
The Bugle
The Bugle
4.8 • 6.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Andy welcomes to Chris Addison to The Bugle for his debut and the returning Alice Fraser celebrates four years in the show. They look at another jolly week in global turmoil, televised funerals and corrupt politicians.
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| 0:00.0 | The Bugle, audio newspaper for a visual world. |
| 0:14.7 | Hello, Bugleers and welcome to issue 4191 of the Bugle audio newspaper for a visual world. |
| 0:22.0 | I am Andy Zoltzman, it is the 19th of April 2021 and the world I am pleased to announce |
| 0:27.4 | is no longer going to Hell in a Handcart. |
| 0:29.8 | Only because the Handcart fell apart because the contractor made the handcart was given |
| 0:33.9 | to a company with no handcart making experience but friends in high places. |
| 0:37.8 | So now we are just stuck in between the earth and hell without even the prospect of the |
| 0:42.0 | reassuringly predictable moral consistency of hell to cling to. |
| 0:46.5 | To discuss our current predicament in between these two worlds of existence joining me |
| 0:50.5 | this week, not for the first time and for the first time respectively. |
| 0:54.6 | Also respectively, 10,500 miles away as the crow flies or 7000 miles away as the squirrel |
| 1:00.0 | burrows in Melbourne, Australia and about 8 miles away as the car drives as long as it |
| 1:04.4 | doesn't get lost. |
| 1:05.7 | And with respectively 0 and 2 you know what's all vice versa. |
| 1:09.4 | It is, or they are, Alice Fraser and for the first time on the Bugle Chris Addison. |
| 1:15.9 | Hello Andy, hello Chris, welcome to the show, it's great to have you on all these years. |
| 1:24.0 | Long time listen, first time caller. |
| 1:25.8 | I'd just like to say hello to everyone in Class 4B, Broad Ops, Juniors and can you please |
| 1:30.0 | dedicate your next pun to my mum and dad and anyone else who knows me. |
| 1:33.8 | Thank you. |
| 1:34.8 | Well Chris, I think you just revealed the Bugle secret which is that the guests are not |
| 1:41.7 | booked, we just randomly call and luckily get through the end result, not as the case |
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