Hello, Bugles. I am Andy Zoltzman and welcome to Bugle Issue 4237 Summer Hiatus Sub-Summer episode

B. The second of our quite literally all-gust offerings do tidy over until we return at the

end of the month. This week in the absence of the Bugle we turn to our glamorous sister

publication The Gargle, the glossy magazine to the Bugles, unrelenting heavy news journalism

barrage of facturitiveness. The Gargle is concocted and hosted by Alice Fraser and you

can currently see Alice performing at the Edinburgh Festival along with numerous other Bugle

co-hosts, due to their shows, preferably having border tickets and laugh at them and then

tell them that they are your favourite Bugle co-host of all time. And to do also buy your

tickets for the Bugle 15th anniversary live shows now via the live bit of the Bugle website.

There is a little live button at the top, you can click all or elsewhere. My website,

Andy Zoltzman.co.uk, should link to it as well if I've said it upright, which is a big

if and it also has details of my November satirist for higher bonus extension dates.

Coming later in the hiatus, we will have the best of the bin highlights from the chunks

of the audio newspaper that frankly no one was ever going to read. If you have a particularly

favourite section in the bin that you'd like to hear again, do let us know either by

shouting it into the ether or preferably via our social media channels, tweet us at Hello

Bugleers or do something else that might work. Right, open wide, it's time to tick on your

taste buds with the latest episode of the Gargle.

This is a podcast from the Bugle.

It's opening night of the Edinburgh fringe, you've been working on this show for months.

Now let's be honest, since before Covid years, it's the thunder dome of performing arts,

your weapons are sharp, your heart is strong, you're facing the immensity of competing against

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