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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

🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Bonus episode time Buglers! While Andy, take a well deserved rest from bringing you the latest slurry of frankly idiotic news. Producer Harry has rounded up a few clips from the start of 2026, that didn’t make it in the first time round, we’ve also got a clip from our voluntary subscription only show Ask Andy and a Top Story from The Bugle’s, Science and Tech pull out The Gargle, so sit back, get comfortable and enjoy. It's Bugle episode 4373A!


We’ll be back next week with Nato Green and Alice Fraser. If you like The Bugle ad-free and uninterrupted. Then why not join The Bugle’s voluntary subscription, with your support Andy and his cohort of co-hosts can continue to blast there trademark mix of satirical insight and shameless drivel all over the planet.


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Produced by Chris Skinner, Laura Turner and Harry Gordon.


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0:00.0

The Bugle! Audio Newspaper for a visual world.

0:13.7

Hello, buglers and welcome to Bugle bonus episode 4,373A for April is here, but we are not. I'm Andy Zaltzman, and the bugle is off this

0:25.5

week. The clocks went forward on Sunday here in London, but I forgot to change mine, so I

0:30.6

recorded an hour of highly pertinent satirical chirp, but what I thought was the right time,

0:35.5

but we didn't actually press the record button until an hour after I'd started.

0:39.4

Fact. So, instead of us trying to find or shed

0:42.9

or pretend we can discern some light amidst the music gloomery,

0:47.0

we have a bugle bonus episode for you.

0:49.5

Producer Harry has rounded up a few leftover nuggets

0:52.6

of pure gold from the start of 2026.

0:55.8

The bits that didn't make it in first time round, so, well, nuggets of pure silver, I suppose,

1:00.5

but still on the podium, which is the important thing.

1:02.6

We've also got a clip from our universe exclusive voluntary subscriber-only show Ask Andy

1:07.7

and a top story from the Bugles revamped science and tech pullout the gargle with

1:13.2

Alice Fraser so sit back get comfortable and enjoy unless you're doing something in which sitting

1:18.2

back and getting comfortable is dangerous or inappropriate for example performing surgery or

1:23.0

doing competitive ski jumping our first clip is from Ask, the almost monthly show in which I and producer Chris

1:30.4

answer the questions put to us by our voluntary subscribers.

1:33.8

Such as this one,

1:34.9

the question of how the bugle and our time at times online

1:38.0

eventually came to an end.

1:48.3

Tim asks a question.

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