The Bugle. Audio newspaper for a visual world. Hello, Bugleers. And welcome.

Am I still allowed to say welcome or is that off-brand for UK PLC these days?

I don't know, not sure actually. I do quite a bit of BBC works, I've got to make sure

I have a balance for and against the government. So let's go with welcome and f*** off.

That should go with things too, the bugle. I am an exultzman, this is issue 4256 of the Bugle

to be precise. Yes, 256 episodes since we relaunched. Meaning fanfare please Chris.

Bigger fanfare please Chris.

Meeting that you can now have a straight eight round knockout to decide your favourite

post relaunch bugle episode. A composition that assuming you did one match every two hours

to allow for each episode averaging about 40 minutes to play in full with a half-time

orange, some post-match analysis and a look ahead to the next contest. Going by about

four matches a day tapering down to two a day from the quarter final stage onwards with

a break, a days break in between the round of 16 and the quarter finals and the quarter

finals and the semi-finals and two days between the semi-finals and the finals and of course

no third place playoff. That's precisely ten weeks, ten weeks of your life that you

could do that competition in ironically. This beginning to this week's episode probably

means it's already looking a good bet to be knocked out in the first round. Unless our

two guests this week can pull this episode out of the fire. Let's find out joining me

to try to rescue this episode from a car in a basement in Australia which may need to

make some explanation. It's Alice Fraser. Hello Alice.

Hello Andy. There is no competition. Everybody's favourite episode is my debut on the vehicle

of course. Where I launched the pun. I think it was the one where I said our bite

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