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The Bugle

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The Bugle

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

4.86.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Well isn't this exciting! After nearly five years John Oliver returns to The Bugle for a bumper edition! This week...


  • Snowploughs
  • Trump/Covid/Brexit and other things that have happened since 2016
  • Sexy Frogs
  • Antelopes playing bass


COME SEE OUR END OF YEAR SHOW ON 30TH DECEMBER: https://www.citizenticket.co.uk/events/the-bugle/the-bugle-relives-2020/#get (with Nish Kumar, Alice Fraser and Nato Green)


Buy a loved one Bugle Merch for Xmas - bobble hats, scarves and HAGOW T Shirts are on sale!


We have a sister show, The Last Post, which you can hear here. Follow us on YouTube or Insta and see parts of this episode with actual video.


The Bugle is hosted this week by:


Andy Zaltzman

John Oliver

And produced by Chris Skinner. LISTEN TO BUSH'S BOARD GAME THING


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Before we begin this week's Bugle and it is a show I think you will enjoy a great deal.

0:04.7

Here is a reminder to book your tickets for the Bugle Live review of the year on the 30th

0:09.4

of December, starting at 8pm UK time.

0:12.8

That is official curtain uptime.

0:14.3

Dores will be a little bit before that if you can indeed have doors for an online show.

0:18.2

It will feature me, Alice, Nish and NATO as we bid, an enthusiastic, sod often don't

0:22.8

come back to the last 12 rubbish months.

0:26.0

It's available via the Bugle Podcast.com and will entitle you to watch the show live and

0:30.2

or stream it for a fortnight afterwards.

0:32.2

After that we might throw some of it open to the rest of the world.

0:34.7

But if you want to see all of it, well it's still relevant, buy your tickets now.

0:38.6

Or after you've listened to this week's show, ideally, here it is.

0:42.1

Strap in.

0:43.1

I think you'll like it.

0:46.1

The Bugle, audio newspaper for a visual world.

1:00.8

Hello Bugleers and welcome to this, the last full Bugle of 2020, a year that has been

1:07.0

an absolute object lesson in how to be a thoroughly shit 12 months.

1:11.9

Now, I know I'm prejudging the last two weeks till the come.

1:14.9

Look, who remembers Oscar's goal for Brazil in the 2014 World Cup 75 against Germany?

1:20.3

Not even Oscar I remember that goal.

1:22.1

I imagine he wakes up every night at 4am screaming, 7 f***ing 1!

1:27.6

But, bugleers, if there was one thing that could sweeten the barrel of shite that has

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