Palestine Inaction

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Andy Zaltzman, Mildly Informed, Satire, Tiff Stevenson, Test Match Special, The Gargle, John Oliver, Hari Kondabolu, Nish Kumar, Chris Addison, Politics, Top Stories, The Last Post, News, Comedy, News Commentary, Alice Fraser, Urncast

4.8 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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This week, Andy Zaltzman is joined by Ian Smith and Nish Kumar for a global dive into activism, absurdity, and the only sport where selflessness still exists (sometimes).

🗺️ Palestine Action — protestors, direct action, and is this chat even legal? Andy, Ian and Nish break down who’s doing what, why, and whether it makes a difference.

🏅 Meanwhile, in a move that absolutely no one saw coming (except everyone), Donald Trump has been nominated for a Nobel Prize. Yes, really. What next? A sainthood?

🏏 And in sports, meet the world’s most selfless cricketer—proof that somewhere, deep in the heart of cricket, the spirit of the game is still alive.

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Produced by Chris Skinner and Laura Turner.

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0:00.0	The Bugle! Audio Newspaper for a visual world.
0:14.6	Hello, buglers and welcome to issue 4,347 of the bugle audio newspaper for a visual world with me and his
0:23.0	Altzman increasingly at ease with the fact that I have to this day never once been described
0:27.7	as the Jimmy Hendrix of the Harpsichord but I haven't given up on that dream yet I've bought some
0:32.3	wood I'm joined today right here in London live and person, and in three possibly more dimensions by two people,
0:39.7	whose dreams have similarly been crushed at us by the cruel hand of fate.
0:43.0	Firstly, it's no-time Wimbledon champion, Nish Kumar.
0:49.0	Wow, it hurts, Andy.
0:50.3	It hurts to have those wounds salted at the start of the show. I can't believe this.
0:57.0	Well, you've left out my US Open record. Also, zero wins. I'm bugling in shorts for the first time.
1:03.4	Right. Is that an attempt to sort of bring that, you know, that tennis vibe to the bugle? Because
1:10.8	I mean, obviously, you know, I bugle in trousers because Fred Perry won his three Wimbled
1:15.6	in the 1930s wearing trousers.
1:19.1	And I bugle in shorts and with a mullet and having just recently taken crystal meth in tribute
1:24.6	to Andre Agasson, my tennis hero.
1:28.6	Also joining us a man who's repeatedly failed to acquire the world's largest collection of
1:33.3	Napoleon figurines. It's Ian Smith. Hello Ian. Yeah, what a dent to my confidence as well.
1:39.9	This is bad man management, Andrew. Yeah, I don't think I've got one Napoleon figurine.
1:45.7	Yeah, you're way off then.
1:46.9	He was probably short enough to be considered a figurine.
1:53.1	That would be got a good sledge on the battlefield, wouldn't it?
1:58.2	Sledging.
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