H A P P Oh God Why!?
The Bugle
The Bugle
4.8 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
This week, we investigate the happiest nations on Earth and ask: How?! Finland is officially joyful, the UK is redefining disability, and the bizarre love-hate triangle of Trump, Putin, and Zelenskyy—does anyone in that mess feel happy? Meanwhile, in Dublin, Molly Malone is getting groped… but why?
Plus, we take a trip back in time to when a British Prime Minister found himself in an actual duel (yes, with real guns), and Andy treats us to his latest, highly scientific, bear impressions.
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Written and hosted by Andy Zaltzman, Ria Lina, Neil Delamere.
Produced by Chris Skinner and Laura Turner.
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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. |
| 0:30.1 | So do you want me to growl or do you want to find some actual bare sound effects, Chris? |
| 0:34.1 | Well, okay, for the sake of this room here, I want you to growl. |
| 0:37.0 | Yeah, please grow. |
| 0:37.6 | I may not use it. |
| 0:38.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:01.7 | Hello, buglers, and welcome to issue 4,335 of the bugle, audio newspaper for a visual world, |
| 1:06.7 | barking at the wrong moon since 2007, with me, and is Altzman coming to you live and recorded from London, where once the Orocks roamed the plains, |
| 1:12.8 | but now they'd have probably been stuck in traffic or causing people to quietly harrumph on the Northern Line |
| 1:15.1 | for taking up so much space in the tube carriages. |
| 1:17.6 | Is that progress? |
| 1:18.7 | That's not for me to judge. |
| 1:19.7 | It is the 21st of March 2025, and I'm joined today. |
| 1:24.2 | Firstly, from Dublin via Bulgaria by Neil Delamere well welcome back from Bulgaria |
| 1:32.0 | Neil thank you very much I was in Bulgaria filming something that I didn't really |
| 1:37.3 | realise I was filming and that was an unusual scenario we met a Turkish arms dealer at |
| 1:43.9 | one point, |
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