The Empire Strikes Back
The Bugle
The Bugle
4.8 • 6.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2007
⏱️ 29 minutes
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The second ever episode of The Bugle! Written and presented by Andy Zaltzman and John Oliver, featuring The American.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to edition 2 of The Bugle, time's on lines almost brand new |
| 0:17.2 | So in the Bugle this week in a week in which the world's official score has now dipped |
| 0:41.9 | to 2.2 out of 10 we'll be looking at immigration should we all go back to where we came from the sea |
| 0:48.8 | the UK claims part of Antarctica attention world the empire is back on |
| 0:53.6 | mobilize yourself Britain's this time we're starting south and working our way up |
| 0:57.9 | and in sports Johnny Wilkinson wins or loses the world cup |
| 1:02.5 | of course as always some sections of the audio newspeed to go straight in the |
| 1:05.6 | this week the art section including news that Muhammad Ali is to play the role of |
| 1:10.2 | Will Smith in a predictive biopic of the comic actors later life |
| 1:14.0 | and the technology section featuring major articles on where now for the horse |
| 1:18.8 | and how gadgets stole my wife |
| 1:25.2 | top story this week the UK announced plans to claim a section of the Antarctic for |
| 1:29.9 | scientific research purposes could this be the re-emergence of the British Empire so |
| 1:34.9 | many things are reforming now led Zeppelin are getting back together no one |
| 1:38.8 | thought they'd lived to see that perhaps it's time for the British Empire to reform come on |
| 1:42.8 | India for old times sake and does it not say something for how this current American |
| 1:47.6 | administration is viewed by the world I think people might even go for that yes we |
| 1:51.7 | did far far worse things than America could even dream of but we did it with that |
| 1:55.6 | certain gentlemanly swagger we were like Godzilla in a necktie more elegantly |
| 2:00.0 | destructive I think we've deserved a second crack at empire |
| 2:03.6 | John I think it's great that the empire is back with |
| 2:06.2 | vengeance albeit not much of a vengeance and caught an icy vengeance but |
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