April Fools!
The Bugle
The Bugle
4.8 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Hello Buglers! While Andy is off bringing his unique brand of satirical Irish language rap and extremely English-sounding spoken word to Dublin and Belfast, we wouldn’t dream of leaving you without your dose of hot takes on global news!
This week, we’re diving into Top Stories, our show that revisits the history of The Bugle, one headline at a time. And since April is upon us, We’ve handpicked three classic April episodes for your listening pleasure:
🎤 Bugle 149 – #CrucifyBieber (April 2011): A certain pop icon makes an unexpected cameo in the Middle East.
💰 Bugle 267 – Gaining My Religion: The UK Government’s relentless pursuit of austerity meets a dance as old as time.
🐼 Bugle 4148 – Panda Time (April 2020): Alice Fraser, Al Murray, and I try to stay sane at the height of lockdown.
There are hundreds more Top Stories waiting for you—dive into the feed and enjoy! And remember, The Bugle exists because of you—head to thebuglepodcast.com to support the show.
We’ll be back next week!
Episode produced by Laura Turner and Chris Skinner
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| 0:00.0 | Oh hello, strangers. I'm Alice Fraser, your guide to the galaxies, goblins, dungeons and dystopias. |
| 0:06.2 | We'll be hurling ourselves into a weekly hero's journey through realms unknown into the dark but sensual heart of all our favourite speculative fictions. |
| 0:15.1 | We'll navigate the wild realms created by brilliant authors, filmmakers, game designers and more. |
| 0:20.8 | New episodes drop every week on your podcast app or on YouTube. |
| 0:25.1 | Do not resist the call to adventure chosen one. |
| 0:28.0 | Join me for Realms Unknown. |
| 0:43.5 | The Bugle, Audio Newspaper for a Visual World Hello, buglers, and welcome to issue 4,335 sub-episode I for I'm on tour in Ireland and unable to record a bugle this week. |
| 0:51.6 | I have, however, been to the Titanic Museum in Belfast. |
| 0:54.6 | Very good it was, in a striking building, but disappointingly, not nearly as big as I'd |
| 0:59.4 | assumed it would be. I had assumed only 10% of it would be visible above the surface and the |
| 1:04.4 | other 90% underground, but it wasn't. It was all at the ground level and above. Opportunity |
| 1:09.1 | missed, I feel. But of course, the lack of full bugle doesn't mean that we will leave you without some hot takes on the biggest news stories in the world. |
| 1:16.3 | It's just they're going to be old ones this week. |
| 1:18.0 | We have a show celebrating the history of the bugle and the world since October 2007, one top story at a time. |
| 1:25.1 | It's called Top Stories, suitably enough. It has its own feed, |
| 1:28.5 | and there are mountains of bugle gems that you can dig your way through whilst doing whatever |
| 1:32.8 | you do whilst listening to podcasts. I'm not going to judge. So, as we're just about to enter |
| 1:37.9 | April, we present few three collated April bugle classics for you. Before we get into those, some |
| 1:43.6 | important housekeeping. The bugle only get into those, some important housekeeping, |
| 1:44.6 | the Bugle only exists because you, yes, you, the listeners, help it to. |
| 1:49.6 | Please go to the buglepodcast.com if you want to join our voluntary subscription scheme |
| 1:54.2 | to help keep this show free, flourishing and independent for the rest of all eternity, |
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