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Buglers! It's that time of year again.

The time of year when the official Bugle Christmas T-shirt is back.

The perfect gift for any pun-loving, satire-craving, bugle-adoring, wearing-a-T-shirt-at-Christmas fan.

Ideal, then, for Southern Hemisphere buglers, or any buglers in any other hemisphere who won't back down from T-shirt wearing just because it's winter, or indeed for anyone living on a rapidly heating planet.

In stock now, and limited edition, so it may well sell out.

Details on the website.

Merry Buglemas, one and all.

Hello, this is Top Stories.

Hello, this is Top Stories.

I am Andy Zaltzman, bringing you the biggest news in the world as we first reported on it on the Bugle Podcast.

We're going back to January 2021 now, and issue 4,179.

I was joined by Alice Fraser and Nish Kumar to discuss the leftovers from our Bugle review of the jam-packed year of shit that was 2020.

Top Story this week, leftovers from 2020.

Due to time constraints, we didn't quite finish everything we were planning to get through in our review of 2020 show, possibly because the year was so jam-packed full of shit that we couldn't compact it all down into a single 90-minute disc of uselessness.

So I think this just justifies those multiple votes that I placed back in 2016 in favour of Henry VIII.

Thanks for listening to Top Stories.

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Hello, Buglers, and welcome to issue 4,392 of The Bugle: Audio Newspaper for a Visual World with me, Andy Zaltzman, recording on the 28th of September, 2026.

And firstly, a huge thank you, uh, Buglers, for listening to this show because I know how tempting it must be for you all to watch the new 24-hour-a-day Trump TV channel for 24 hours a day.

So we are beyond grateful that you've cut down to somewhere between 23 and 23 and a half hours to give us the rest of your time.

Much obliged.

You won't regret it.

Um, I'm delighted to be joined, uh, for this is- edition of The Bugle, and, you know, let me, let me preface this by saying that the cricket season ended yesterday as we record.

It's Monday today.

Hello, welcome to Top Stories.

I am Andy Zaltzman, rummaging around in the archives of the Bugle Podcast once again to find you a top story from a previous issue of our esteemed audio newspaper.

In this show, we're going back to November 2022.

The top story that week was the US midterms, and thankfully Trump's red wave failed to materialise, as I discussed with Hari Kondabolu and Nish Kumar.

And so, I mean, I think I still think he will probably announce.

But just because the man's got absolutely no sense of no sense of himself.

Well, if you've enjoyed that edition of Top Stories, or indeed anything the Bugle has ever done, why not join our voluntary subscription scheme at thebuglepodcast.com to keep our shows free, flourishing and independent until the end of time.

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The Bugle, audio newspaper for a visual world.

Right,

here we go.

One of the worst things you can say to

us.

Hello, Buglers, and welcome.

You've already f***ed it up.

The first thing you said was, don't f*** this up, and you've already f***ed it

We've supported them for 40 years.

But in their first year, in the very first Bugle magazine, Charlie and them called up my grandpa.

Talked to his Hannah, Betty Noonan, in the 80s.

And anyways, my grandpa put the very first gun ad ever in a Bugle, the very first edition of Bugle Magazine.

Really? And Steve Decker, Charlie's son, you know, over at the Elk Foundation.

I remember about 10 years ago, I was up in Missoula, and he just said, I want to show you something.

And he went back there and got the first edition of Bugle and opened it up to the Weatherby ad and said, this is why we're still working together.

You guys were here since the very get-go.