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On this week of The Bugle, Andy is joined by Anuvab Pal and Sara Barron, as they navigate through the week's biggest and strangest stories, from Melania Trump's movie release, the new Springsteen number, Starmer's trip to China and a potentially habitable new planet has been discovered 146 light-years away โ but it may be -70C
๐ฅ Melania Hits the Big Screen: Andy, Anuvab and Sara, get to grips with the latest blockbuster out of the US, as the first lady's new $75 million Amazon film launches to empty seats and faint praise in NYC
๐จ๐ณ Starmer's China Visit: The three talk on Starmer's much anticipated visit to China, as he discussed Trump, Healthcare, Visas, and Whisky. Oh and his new love of TikTok!
๏ปฟ๐ช Potentially Habitable New Planet: Finally, there is excitement, as scientists say that they've found an Earth-size planet, that has a โ50% chance of residing in the habitable zoneโ of its sun-like star.
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In this weekโs Bugle Andy is joined by Tiff Stevenson and Josh Gondelman, as they discuss the week's biggest stories, from NASA debunking gravity conspiracies, Netflix's new daring documentary with free climber Alex Honnold, more on the unfolding events from the US and the new portrait of Scottish poet Robert Burns.
๐ Gravity Conspiracy: Andy, Tiff and Josh, get their heads around the latest conspiracy theory, that gravity is to end for 7 seconds.They also throw in some of their own for good measure.
๐ง Netflix Daring Doc: Netflix's newly released doc, follows solo climber, Alex Honnold as he attempts to climb the 101 story Taiwan Skyscraper with no equipment!
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Robert Burns' New Angle: The gang break down the discovery of a new portrait of Robert Burns, fittingly the morning after Burns Night.
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This week on The Bugle, Andy is joined by Alice Fraser and Anuvab Pal, as they discuss Trump's Greenland spending spree, London's crime rate lowering, and a women busted for drugs, found in a bag labelled "Does Not Contain Drugs"
๐บ๐ธ Trump on Greeland: Andy, Alice and Anuvab breakdown Trump's old fashioned approach to trying to buy other people's land
๐ London's Crime on the Down: London's crime rate falling to it's lowest in a decade, but at what cost?
๐ฌ๐ง Reform's Big New Signing: The three also break down Robert Jenrick's controversial move from the Tory Party to Nigel Farage's Reform.
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This weekโs Bugle is a US Special, hard not to be at the moment. Kick starting 2026, Andy Zaltzman joined by Nish Kumar, and Nato Green try to navigate their way through what might be the worst start to a year since, well since 2025.
๐บ๐ธ USA's Capture of Maduro: Andy, Nish and Nato, get their teeth into the breaking news of the US's capture of the Venezuelan president.
๐บ๐ธ Even More Trump News: Meanwhile, Donald Trump continues to doโฆ even more of whatever it is heโs doing now. As we delve into his plans and reasons for taking Greenland.
๐บ๐ธ The Tragedy in Minnesota: Finally, we touch upon the tragic events that unravelled in Minnesota, and try to, like the rest of the world, make sense of it all.
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What a year it was. Here's the 2nd part of our 2025 review, which feels like a million years ago in this current news cycle.
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What a year it has been Buglers. To truly make sense of this last 12 months we're taking a month by month look at what just happened. January to June went a bit like this.
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Recorded live in Melbourne, this weekโs Bugle is a full-throttle Rage Bait Special, with Andy Zaltzman joined by Lloyd Langford, Sami Shah, and Alice Fraser to chew through the yearโs biggest stories with fury, confusion, and jokes of questionable legality.
๐ฆ๐บ Australia: We confront the latest tragedies in Australia, and try (with limited success) to process them through satire, empathy, and yelling into the void.
๐บ๐ธ Trump News: Meanwhile, Donald Trump continues to doโฆ whatever it is heโs doing now. We attempt to identify it, label it, and possibly quarantine it.
๐ Epstein: We dig a little deeper into what we do and donโt know โ and why this story refuses to go away.
๐ And we rummage through some of the other best (and worst) stories of 2025, because thereโs always more. Always. Angry, funny, cathartic โ this is The Bugle doing what it does best, in front of a live Australian audience.
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Recorded live in Brisbane, Australia, this weekโs Bugle sees Andy Zaltzman joined on stage by Nish Kumar and Alice Fraser for a high-energy international tour of scandal, chaos, and cinematic derangement.
๐ฆ๐บ Australia News: The country is rocked by the unthinkable โ a Wiggles drug scandal. Plus, an Australian PM finally does something.
๐ฌ๐ง UK Politics: Back in Britain, thereโs fresh chaos and alleged racism in Westminster. Standards continue their long retreat into the sea (just off the coast of Clacton).
๐บ๐ธ Trump News: And in America, Donald Trump appears to be greenlighting movies. Yes, really. With Rush Hour 4 apparently on the table, Hollywood has reached a new constitutional crisis.
It's a Bugle live classic!
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Here's what happened when Alice Fraser and Nish Kumar finally teamed up with John Oliver!
Plus: COP 30, the World Cup, and other unheard stories
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This week, Andy Zaltzman is joined by Josh Gondelman and Anuvab Pal for an episode bursting with chaos, tangents, and stories so random they feel algorithmically generated.
As Andy prepares to fly to Australia for The Ashes, the big question is: is he even slightly focused? The evidence suggests no.
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A dizzying tour of the worldโs oddest headlines โ just another day at The Bugle.
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