The Bugle

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This week, Andy Zaltzman is joined by Nato Green and Sara Barron for a jam-packed episode featuring geopolitics, golf, and pharmaceutical-powered transformations.

🇬🇧 Trump hits the UK — but not for diplomacy. No, he’s here for the golf, naturally. We unpack the weirdness of a man under multiple indictments taking celebratory swings on foreign soil.

🇵🇸 In Gaza, the human cost continues to mount. The team discusses what’s happening, what isn’t, and why outrage fatigue is very, very real.

💉 Meanwhile, in the world of image, insecurity, and injections: we tackle the rise of men on Ozempic. Who are they doing it for? Themselves? The algorithm? Their golf swing?

Plus: a healthy dose of righteous fury, despair-laced laughs, and a side of fairway hypocrisy.

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Produced by Chris Skinner and Laura Turner.

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This week, Andy Zaltzman is joined by Jena Friedman and Ria Lina for an episode full of sub-zero headlines. With Trump's ICE on the loose, shifting climate cycles and unruly vandalism the trio plod their way through a bombardment of moral twist and turns.

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Produced by Laura Turner, Chris Skinner and Ross Ramsey-Golding.

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This week, Andy Zaltzman is joined by Alice Fraser and Anuvab Pal as the trio plunge head first into a whirlwind of headlines,  from irritable emojis and French public holidays to comets and judgemental pets.

And of course the team check-in to the land of Trump only to find a disappointed Donald celebrating the FIFA Club World Cup. 

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Produced by Chris Skinner and Ross Ramsey-Golding.

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This week, Andy Zaltzman is joined by Ian Smith and Nish Kumar for a global dive into activism, absurdity, and the only sport where selflessness still exists (sometimes).

🗺️ Palestine Action — protestors, direct action, and is this chat even legal? Andy, Ian and Nish break down who’s doing what, why, and whether it makes a difference.

🏅 Meanwhile, in a move that absolutely no one saw coming (except everyone), Donald Trump has been nominated for a Nobel Prize. Yes, really. What next? A sainthood?

🏏 And in sports, meet the world’s most selfless cricketer—proof that somewhere, deep in the heart of cricket, the spirit of the game is still alive.

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Produced by Chris Skinner and Laura Turner.

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This week, Andy Zaltzman is joined by Josie Long and Josh Gondelman for a turbulent episode stacked with big beautiful bills, endless Norwegian funds and outrageously rich pets.

Produced by Chris Skinner, Laura Turner and Ross Ramsey-Golding

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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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This week, Andy Zaltzman is joined by Tiff Stevenson and Tom Ballard to untangle a world that's somehow too serious and too stupid—often at the same time.

🔥 Top Story: Iran & Israel — tensions escalate, missiles fly, and peace remains as elusive as a rational online comment section.

🐕 Also in Iran: forget cats with attitude—dog walking is now banned. We unpack the leash-tightening madness.

☀️ Meanwhile, the summer solstice brings light and… an AUKUS defence deal? Yes, nothing says sunshine like submarines.

🎺 And in the USA, Trump’s latest parade blares its way through logic and decency—again.

💬 Expect sharp satire, international nonsense, and at least one excellent pun.

📺 Watch our visual fantasy-comedy show Realms Unknown on YouTube.

Produced by Chris Skinner and Laura Turner. And Chris's dog Daphne.

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This week, Andy Zaltzman is joined by Alice Fraser and Neil Delamere for a global sweep of chaos, climate, and confused birds.

🇺🇸 In the United States, Elon Musk continues to make noise, and riots bring yet another wave of existential dread. Democracy? Still TBD.

🌆 Sinking cities are on the rise (and by “on the rise” we mean going underwater). Is climate change trying to take real estate off the market?

🐧 In the Antarctic nationalist row nobody asked for, penguins have waddled straight into a geopolitical spat. Are they fascist birds, or just lost? We investigate.

💬 It's time to 'Ask Andy' - send your questions now.

📺 Watch our fantasy comedy series Realms Unknown now fully visualised on YouTube

Produced by Chris Skinner and Laura Turner. Climate-proofed by penguins.

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This week, Andy Zaltzman leads an international panel of Buglers through the chaos of politics, wildlife, and billionaire bromances—with a special focus on honey badgers, New Zealand’s political drama, and the heartbreaking (or not?) Musk/Trump split. 

Andy, Felicity Ward and James Nokise dig in to... 

🦡 Honey badgers are fearless, chaotic, and possibly the spiritual animal of this podcast. We investigate their weird mythology and even weirder attitude. 

🇳🇿 New Zealand politics is heating up—by Kiwi standards, at least. We delve into coalition collapses, policy oddities, and why it’s all oddly polite. 💔 Elon Musk and Donald Trump: the bromance is off. What happened? Who kept the merch? And can either of them survive without the other’s echo? 

⚠️ Warning: This episode contains BS. You’ve been warned.

📺 Watch Realms Unknown, now fully visualised on YouTube. Produced by Chris Skinner and Laura Turner. Possibly supervised by a honey badger.

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This week, Andy Zaltzman is joined by 'quibbling sibling' Helen Zaltzman and Josh Gondelman for a mostly F***ING BLEAK-free episode full of satire, jigsaw news and punctuation puns.

🇨🇦 In Canada news:

🧩 US-Canada trade war means jigsaw business owners are left picking up the pieces

👑 King Charles visits the colonies with promises of arming an ordinarily placid country

🇺🇸 In USA news:

☎️ Big Beautiful Bill resolute in bid to reach Trump's desk

🤑 Food 'sucked' at Trump's $148m meme coin dinner

📖 In Books and Language news:

🤖 AI-generated summer reading list published in newspapers

；Semicolon usage on the decline

⛅️ In Light in the Darkness news:

☀️ Solar panels in space to transmit electricity to Earth

🧠 Feeling awe helps mental health

🎧 Listen to our sci-fi and fantasy comedy show Realms Unknown hosted by Bugle favourite Alice Fraser, and pick up her book A Passion for Passion here: http://uk.bookshop.org/shop/RealmsUnknown

Produced by Ped Hunter and Chris Skinner.

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