Liberation Day: Weird, at best

The Bugle

Andy Zaltzman, 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

4.8 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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This week, Andy is joined by Alice and Tiff as we toss useless kitchen gadgets into the bin and declare it Liberation Day— the world is free… or at least pretending to be!

📰 Top Story: Global economic weight-loss plans, penguin-based trade analysis, and a surprise appearance from Norfolk Island.

🎺 Trump news (still a thing): Why is he firing national security staff? And what does Laura Loomer have to do with it?

👀 Cory Booker makes headlines for not peeing.

⚔️ Women in war: Who would have thought a very bad man would have a very bad take.

🗿 In archaeology news: A 3-year-old makes a big discovery. Has she already peaked?

And finally, a reminder from earlier: Fascism—still bad.

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0:00.0	The Bugle! Audio Newspaper for a visual world.
0:13.6	Hello buglers and welcome to issue 4,336 of the bugle audio newspaper for a visual world with me.
0:22.6	Andy Zaltzman here in London, the sun is shining, the birds arguing about stuff,
0:28.5	and the cricket season has, as we record, just begun.
0:32.3	It is, as I like to think of it, Liberation Day.
0:36.1	A tainted phrase, sadly. We have been released from the clasp of winter. Liberation Day. I take a phrase, sadly.
0:38.6	We have been released from the clasp of winter.
0:40.8	I'm joined to celebrate this momentous occasion.
0:44.9	Firstly, from Australia by Alice Fraser.
0:47.7	Hello, Alice.
0:48.9	Hello, Andy.
0:49.6	If you think the birds are arguing when spring comes,
0:52.2	I have a small biology lesson for you.
0:59.4	When a man arguing with each other very much. Also joining us, as you may have just heard,
1:06.0	from a slightly more northerly part of London. It's Tiff Stevenson.
1:11.7	Hi, Tiff.
1:12.8	Hello, hi.
1:14.2	No birds outside my window because the cat's been patrolling hard.
1:18.6	Right.
1:19.6	So it's spring awakening for him as well.
1:24.0	He's just, yeah, he's doing that kind of machine gun noise that cats do when they see a bird.
1:31.9	It's like an ac, ac.
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