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The Bugle

Too Much News - Bonus Edition

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The Bugle

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

4.86.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

There has been so much news lately that we've had to hold back on some killer stories, so here they are - from Matcha chaos, to Jeff Bezos's wedding to female religious leaders.


Andy is with: Tiff Stevenson, Hari Kondabolu, Felicity Ward, Neil Delamere, Alice Fraser, Tom Ballard and James Nokise.


Produced by Chris Skinner and Laura Turner


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0:00.0

The Bugle

0:11.2

Hello

0:12.3

Hello, buglers, welcome to

0:15.3

Bugle issue 4,345 sub-episode A for, as I said last week, there is no new show this week. Instead, we have some choice off-cuts from recent bugles, which you can listen to whilst booking tickets to my forthcoming show at the Frum Festival on Monday the 7th of July. Also, new tour dates are coming soon for 2026. Anyway, there's been so much news happening lately that we've held some stuff

0:38.3

back, especially for a week like this, when it's probably a bit more healthy for everyone to

0:42.1

think about news that's already happened, the news that is actually currently happening. First

0:46.9

up, I spoke with Tiff Stevenson and Hari Kondobolu about shock horror, a possible female

0:51.9

archbishop.

0:55.7

Well, well,, a job that both of you might be interested in, actually, Harry, with your past in the world of work,

1:04.2

helping refugees, that an Iranian-born refugee could be becoming the first female Archbishop of Canterbury in one of the

1:13.2

most exciting job openings currently on the market. This follows the resignation of Justin Welby,

1:20.7

who announced in January that he was handing in his badge, gun, chageable mitre, light, saber and

1:24.5

inflatable cross, and resigning as head of the Church of England.

1:29.3

And the current front runner is the Bishop of Chelmsford Julie Francis Deccani, who was born in Iran

1:35.9

and came here as a child when her family had to leave Iran.

1:41.6

And so this is the chance to be the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury,

1:45.2

start with St. Augustine back in the year 597,

1:48.5

via 1170 assassination victim of the year, Thomas Beckett,

1:53.1

who sneaked in to pinch that title.

1:54.7

On the 29th of December, four days after Christmas,

1:57.4

disappointing time to be assassinated.

1:59.5

Barely had time to play with his presence. but you can't assassinate archbishops anymore

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