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Hello, Bruegels, the bloody spell checker, and welcome to a special edition of the show, in which we teach you how to paint socially satirical townscapes that really capture the essence of 16th and century Dutch and Flemish life.

It's amazing how much a podcast can be shaped by the first two words.

Get one of them them wrong and it just becomes a whole different show.

Later on, we'll be talking about the importance of facial detail and apparently non-important background figures and asking what's up with windmills.

But first, how to paint someone shitting out of a wind.

Oh, sod this.

Let's restart.

Can we cancel Gerhard Richter?

Well, of course he's going to be cross, but I didn't book him until the start of this paragraph.

Tell him to f ⁇ ing channel it into his next f ⁇ ing painting then.

Jeez, it should be flatter fucking thought of him.

I mean, he could have asked Hockney, but I didn't.

I just googled paintings, and he was the first one on the list who hadn't died at least 100 years ago.

Honestly.

Pro-artists, so aren't it all these days?

Right.

Let's try take two.

Let's try not to get the letters mixed up this time.

Hello, Goebbels.

No, absolutely not.

Take three.

Hello, Buglers.

Yes, there we are.

There we are.

Third time lucky.

Welcome to issue 4210 of The Bugle with me, Andy Zoltzmann, coming at you, albeit coming at you indirectly in non-corporeal audio form, from the shed, here in London.

It is Monday, the 25th of October, 2021, and I'm joined today, firstly, by a man who simply loves the smell of napalm in the morning.

It's...

I'm sorry, not napalm, toast.

Sorry, toast.

Mixing up with the actor Brian Blessard, who really does love the smell of napalm in the morning, which is a relic of his Smith acting days and his unsuccessful audition for Apocalypse Now.

Please welcome Nish Kumar.

Hello, Andy.

Hello, buglers.

Andy, before we started recording, remember when you said brace yourselves, because this intro is quite long?

Yes.

You were not wrong.

You are many things, Andrew, but a liar is not one of them.

Well, that is one of the, I mean, that is a lie.

Hit you up on that.

But you know, some things I don't lie about.

How are you?

I'm well, thanks.

I'm well.

How are you?

Yeah, very good.

Very excited to be back.

I've been on Bugle hiatus, and now I'm back.

And I'm backed up with Bugle.

Well,

I felt myself going down a bad road there, and I've pulled myself out of it.

Yeah, because you've been on a

two-month expedition

to uh to space i believe is that correct yeah that's right yeah yeah yeah i was a stowaway on uh on the shatner ship

i i i you didn't think you could be a stowaway on a spacecraft but i found a way i found a way So you were like in the downstairs of the space Titanic, just doing a jig

while Shatner was up there drinking a champagne.

Shatner was up there drinking a champagne.

I was downstairs doing jigs and painting ladies'

On canvas, I should say.

Yeah.

Well, you've already heard her joining us for the first time on the Bugle, although you may have heard her on, amongst other things, Bugle Stablecasts, The Last Post, The Gargle, and Andy Zaltzmann's Teach Yourself to Commit Libel podcast.

Sorry, that one hasn't come out yet.

A few legal issues.

It's the one and only, I assume, Alison Spittle.

Welcome to the Bugle, Alison.

Great to have you on.

I'm so excited to be on.

This is

an honor.

And I'll stop being sincere now.

Well, that is, you've already used up your lifetime allowance of sincerity on the bugle.

Nisha's still, you've still got all yours in the tank, I think.

All five seconds on it.

It accumulates.

That's the nice thing about it.

It builds up.

You build up sincerity interest in your Bugle bank account.

And eventually, I'm going to be able to do one episode, one full episode, where all I do is just say the news.

We are recording on the 25th of October 2021.

Today is punk for a day day, apparently, where everyone's supposed to dress as a punk.

I've gone with an inverse mohawk hairstyle,

as is so often the case.

As always.

I can't believe that's the first time I've heard you describe your hair as an inverse mohawk.

As always, the section of the bugle is going straight in the the bin.

This week, we have a free board game for you.

A new board game's just come out, and we're giving it away exclusively free.

It's called For Richer, for Poorer.

It's a two-player game in which one player represents the rich of the world and one player represents the poor.

Each player draws five cards from the current global crisis pile and five from the history of humanity pile.

In a top Trump-style showdown, whoever side did, or has done, or is doing better out of either the current crisis or the historical event moves their counter forward, the number of squares they feel like moving forward to accurately reflect reflect what the winners of history and indeed the world today do.

Current crises include climate, COVID, water scarcity, food shortages, migration, employment, modern-day slavery, globalization, population, and malaria.

Historic events include organized religion, empires, colonialism, plague, water scarcity,

food shortages, migration, employment, Genghis Khan, and then modern day, now former slavery.

The box contains one board, two packs of 750 cards, and one counter.

in the shape of a golden dollar sign for whoever is playing the rich.

You won't need one if you're on the Paws team, but you can cobble one together on your own, appropriately enough.

And once you've made a piece, the rich can then play their charity card Joker, which moves the poor forward one square and the rich forward two squares as a special altruism bonus move.

The price of the game is whatever you can afford.

I did say it's free, but obviously it's not really free.

That section is in the bin, along with our Halloween costume section,

in which we run down the four most popular scary costumes ahead of this year's Halloween.

A carbon dioxide molecule, uh a cuckoo clock out of which the cuckoo pops every hour and instead of saying cuckoo says f sake guys um uh a costume in which you just dress up as democracy it's basically the same as a zombie costume these days and uh uh a sausage costume as well uh always terrifying those sections in the bin

Top story this week.

What is going on in the world?

The answer is loads of stuff is going on in the world, as is so often the case and has been for a while now.

But we at the Bugle, we always strive to find the stories that best exemplify the current state of our renowned species and celebrity planet.

And perhaps nothing captures human life 2021 better than this headline.

Egypt arrests robot artist that uses AI algorithms and computer eyeballs to make robo-art and obviously looks eerily like Joan Bakewell but is named after Ada Lovelace on suspicion of being part of an international espionage plot before releasing the robot after a brutally intensive 10-day cross-examination.

The robot then takes part in an exhibition at the pyramids entitled Forever is Now.

I mean, that basically covers

everything about

humanity today, doesn't it?

I mean, Alison, you are on your Bugle debut, our

robot artist correspondent.

Yes, yes, very much so.

I fear them, Andy.

The only machines with faces on that I like is Henry the Hoover,

because he's quite

a reassuring presence.

He's got got a bit of a wry smile as well, as if like he's slightly judging what he's consuming.

And

I just,

it freaks me out that they've decided to make this artist robot look so much like a person.

And I think they're doing it for the people that

have those sex robots.

Like, I do think they're doing them a favor.

They can have them in the corner and go, She's an artist as well.

And it's perfectly fine.

Very acceptable.

Or an artist's muse, even.

Yeah,

yeah, quite so.

And then I don't know, art is very subjective, and I don't like complaining about art because I feel like anytime that I don't like art, I fear that I might hurt the artist's feelings.

So it is good to have a robot artist because I can unequivocally say it is shite.

Absolute shite.

Well, I mean, the robot Hoover, I mean, this shows how, you know, overconfident robots are getting because obviously we're expecting to replace humanity, and the sooner the better, in the case of a lot of lines of work.

But the Robot Hoover is essentially also replacing the Labrador.

I don't think I'm at all comfortable with that.

Nish, I know most of

your material has been written by a series of robots

over the course of your career.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And you're very familiar with...

what they can create.

Yeah, I like to generate humor by algorithm.

That's the way that I've worked.

And it's worked out pretty pretty well so far.

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Because it did.

There you go.

That's just an example of what the algorithm can throw up.

My concern with this, I have a number of concerns about this, but one of the things I would say is I'm looking at Ada, the robot.

I'm looking at a picture of her.

She's got kind of brown features.

And therefore, it is not a surprise she had trouble getting through customs.

Even robots are the victims of racial profiling.

If Ada wanted to have a smooth time through customs, she should have popped a blonde wig on.

I could tell you from experience,

that is too suavy a colour to have an untroubled time at customs, Ada.

I mean, to me,

she did look eerily like Joan Bakewell.

She doesn't look unlike Joan Bakewell.

I'll give you an example of my Showstopper, which was rejected when I was on the Great British Bake-Off.

She's got a bit of of an Indian bake wealth.

I mean, like I said, I think this has got everything.

I mean, it's got incredible technological ingenuity.

Yeah.

A robot that can create art or if that technological ingenuity is used for completely pointless purposes.

I mean, have you seen the number of human artists we already have?

Most of whom earn absolutely all we do not need more artists.

And at least if you're going to make a robot to take over from humanity, you know, as we were saying, make it look like a f ⁇ ing robot.

It involves this story, belated recognition of great woman from history.

That's Ada Lovelace, not Joan Bakewell, who's very much still with us.

It involves a deep and entirely justified suspicion between nations, which is, you know, what the world is all about.

I mean, you can see it from the Egyptian point of view, I think.

A robot, an artist from Britain, you would be f ⁇ ing suspicious, I reckon.

Plus, the name of the exhibition is Forever is Now, which sounds like a James Bond film itself.

So, it would, you know, definitely set alarm Scotland.

It also sounds like it, you know, it's the exhibition title has been made up by a robot that has been programmed to come up with titles for exhibitions that sound like they mean something, but don't.

I'd never like to side with customs authorities, right?

But I'm afraid when a bag of wires and cameras turns up in your country, I just feel like you have the right to be suspicious of its motivations.

You know,

I just really do feel like if you walk into a country and you're like, this is my robot, it's full of cameras, not for spying, for doing art.

There's every chance they're going to have a couple of questions for you.

My dad sells textiles, and JFK is a nightmare for him.

But I I mean, can we.

So the robots,

Adar, is made of wires, metal, and pure 1960s Bakewalite, which is a classily, elegant forerunner of more modern mass-produced plastics.

But I mean, can we say Adar is a real artist?

I guess time will tell.

If she starts churning out almost identical pieces with no sign of artistic evolution for vastly inflated prices that need at least four paragraphs of explanation of what they claim they're trying to express, then yes, truly,

we have ourselves a top of the range as human artists.

I've never had art explained to me so well before, does it?

Yes.

One of the people involved in the project has actually

said,

we are well aware that the fictions of 1984 and Brave New World are now facts.

AI is developing rapidly.

I don't remember the bit in 1984 where Big Brother was like, and now a robot painter.

If this is the dystopia, it seems like we've landed with the most benign one.

Yeah,

I've seen The Terminator.

It wasn't about a robot who traveled back in time to paint a boy.

That would be amazing.

That would be so crazy.

Paint me like one of your past boys.

I'm trying to think of a pun that's like out of space for Alby Back, but

I can't do it.

I'm sure Albie Back was a 1930s futurist, wasn't he?

Randy former monarchs news now.

And

this is right in the sweet spot of the Bugle.

It really is.

Alison, as the Bugle's newly appointed Randy former monarchs correspondent, uh i mean what a story to to to cover on your debut that the former king of spain it has been alleged was had to be injected with female hormones because

his libido is considered to be

a state problem

well it's it's kind of definitely pressed hard in my mind that the monarchs are just livestock and he has been treated like a prize bull by being injected with the you know when they get when their temperament is a bit too much out comes the injections.

But I wonder, like, as a royal, I know you have

food testers before you eat food and stuff.

I mean, did he have a person that would take a bit of this injection and go, yeah,

I'm definitely not horny now, sir, but

you know, you know,

I mean, there's so many other ways that you could bring down someone's libido.

Injections feel far, far too strong.

You know,

maybe, maybe

read him uh read him a book about uh how the world is gonna you know end in a few years and that definitely anytime i feel sexually aroused i just think at the end of the world and i think it's maybe catholicism or something

that just

presses in but uh yeah this so it's become of national importance this man sabito how many women was he shagging like what's the well there are stats on that and oh yeah like cricket stats how many runs jesus saltsman

Well, I mean, we're looking at a solid kind of 5,000 odd

according to a book released in 2017.

5,000?

This guy's doing 10 Dulka numbers.

It

claimed that Juan Carlos II had around

5,000.

That's half of 10,000 different lovers in his Lithariotic career.

And in what they described as, quote, his passionate period, which is,

I mean, I guess they couldn't call it his blue period because the Picasso fans will get crossed.

But from 1976 to 1994, apparently he betted precisely 2,154 women.

What?

And all of this just goes to show it's amazing what you can achieve when you don't have a real job.

Yeah.

Now, I should say, I don't have a real job, but my equivalent stats are very,

very different.

Very different.

Yeah, I mean, I was going to say, Andy, you're writing some very complicated checks that I don't think I certainly am not going to be able to cash as someone who also does not have a real job and has not put up those anything compared to those sorts of numbers.

His sex drive was so

powerful that a former police chief said that it was a state problem.

And so he had to have these testosterone blockers to dampen dampen his

sheer force of his libido.

Now, obviously, there's a lot to get into in this, but I have to say, my first question is, why in the name of God have we not been employing this with Boris Johnson or

Matt Hancock?

Just think about how many lives we could have saved in the pandemic if we had misted the front bench with these things.

We should have put a diffuser up in the houses of parliament to dampen their horns.

Even 130,000 people dying and Matt Hancock still grabbed handfuls of ass meat.

No, that helped him, Nish.

That helped him.

As soon as he found out the numbers, he was like, hands out, ready now.

Where's that CCTV camera?

Bang, happy days.

Boris Johnson can barely get anything done.

because of his prodigious capacity for fathering children.

And you just sort of think like, I mean,

listen,

I would not be in favor of this personally, but I'm just saying, let's have the conversation.

I mean, I believe Indra Gandhi tried something similar in the 1980s with most of the men in India.

So, I mean, like, I'm not saying it always ends well, but I am saying in the specific instance of the front bench of the United Kingdom, why did we not consider crop spraying them with testosterone suppressors?

Well, yeah.

Maybe that's just one of the many lessons.

I think I'd not read the full report into the COVID crisis here in the UK that the government commissioned

for all the lessons that we can learn.

But maybe that is one of them.

I mean, it's probably the thing that is most likely to be learned and everything else we'll just conveniently forget about.

We can build a better world.

What slightly disappoints me about this

is that this happened

recently and King Juan Carlos II sadly missed out on a nickname.

But old monarchs used to get nicknames based on their behavior.

Ethelred the Unready, Olaf the Quiet, Pippin the short, Sebastian the Asleep and a Bulgarian monarch who is apparently called Ivelo the Lettuce.

But

honestly, you've cried Wolf.

No, he's cried Wolf too much.

I've no idea.

That's almost certainly all bullshit.

I am Wolf.

I know these are all independently verified by a three-minute internet search,

which is an unusual level of research.

Yeah, and if there's one thing we know, it's the internet is an organ of ceaseless veracity.

Yes.

Which I believe was King Juan Carlos' nickname for the thing.

Anyway.

But it's a shame that he missed out on being,

he's simply Juan Carlos II rather than Juan Carlos the unfathomably horny or

Juan Carlos the remorselessly priapic, which is

a disappointment.

One of the problems is that

he had an affair with a Miss World contestant called Barbara Ray, and there is an allegation that she received millions of euros from Spanish state coffers to make sure that she didn't...

talk about the affair.

And I just think when a line item in your country's budget is the king's raging hard on, you've really got to have a serious think about yourselves as a nation.

I don't like to cast the Spanish as a pack of Iberian lessarios, but when on budget day the Spanish Chancellor is having to use phrases like, and obviously we will have to allocate tax money to pay off people the king has jizzed near.

But obviously, it is very hard here in the UK.

Words coin something that Juan Carlos wrote on a poster

when on a state visit to this country in 1986.

It's very hard for us to relate to the idea that a member of any royal family might be accused of behaving in a sexually

unimpeachable manner.

We don't know what that's like.

The claims were made by a former police commissioner who has himself been accused of spying, bribery, and fraud.

So it might not be the most reliable of sources, but...

It is fair to say that Juan Carlos has not fully escaped the taint of wrongdoing over his career.

He's also facing claims that he sent Spanish agents to Britain to harass a former lover.

He's running the classic I'm a Magic King, you can't touch me, legal defense on that one, according to recent reports.

He's been in exile for over a year, whilst corruption cases against him have been investigated.

Obviously, we don't know whether or not he's guilty, and these cases also look like they might collapse because of the I'm a Magic King, you can't touch me laws.

But suffice it to say, he has been spending that year in exile in Abu Dhabi.

Draw your own conclusions.

In other world news,

the right-wing American TV pundit Candace Owens

has advocated an American invasion of Australia to, quotes, free an oppressed people.

She's claimed that Australia is essentially a tyrannical police state.

which is not technically true unless you are a would-be

asylum seeker being held in one of Australia's special islands.

But apart from that, I'm sure, and to be honest, I'm sure I imagine that's not what Arch Conservative Candace Owens was complaining about.

But in terms of, you know, we live in an age of exaggerations.

Nish, I mean, where do you put the idea that Australia is an oppressed people that needs to be freed by

America?

Where does that stand for?

I'm unequivocal on this, Andrew.

I think that that is the biggest exaggeration in the history of the human race.

This is the age of exaggerations, and there's never been a worse time to be alive.

Candice Owens is, to be completely fair to her, a fking imbecile.

And

I think that before we engage in any comment on that, we need to just clear that up and say, in her defense, she is an absolute fing moron.

And also, you know, in terms of American criticism of the Australian COVID response, now, sure, the Australian government has balls up its vaccine procurement, but nonetheless, Australia's had fewer overall COVID deaths over the entire crisis than the USA announced every weekday last week.

So, in terms of, you know, oppression and freedom, it's quite the most, I don't know how you balance those things.

Also, the US's recent record of invading places is at best patchy i think it's fair to say and the logistics of invading australia are you know awkward that's a lot of coastline

i mean

i mean if they found bits of the middle eastern desert inhospitable they're gonna have a real motherfucker of a time when they get to the whole of the middle of australia

that i mean if if an austra american invasion of australia goes along the same lines as the american invasions in afghanistan and iraq i think that means we're 10 years away from the COVID vaccine being president of Australia.

I am kind of warming to the idea of the US invading Australia.

I'd like to see how Home and Away deals with that.

You know, or neighbors, just

very hot-style neighbours.

They'll have to change the theme tune.

You know, because Home and Away has had like, you know, hurricanes, explosions, and I'd love to see them deal with the American Enforcement of Democracy.

Old people news now, and well, huge ructions in the old community here in the United Kingdom as reigning monarch of the year, Queen Elizabeth II, has refused an award from the Oldie magazine for Oldie of the Year.

And she spurned this award by saying, you're only as old as you feel.

Now, I mean, this is a huge moment, really, in our national history.

I mean, people accusing the Queen of being old at the age of only 95, and it's quite clear that she is functionally immortal due to our national anthem.

I mean,

Nish, I mean,

for a start, if she's right, you're only as old as you feel.

I can see the government jumping on this and basically cutting pensions.

Yeah,

that's my exact fear, Andy.

Yeah.

That the government is now going to go, well, the Queen's saying she's not old at 95.

Bang goes your winter fuel allowance, Ethel.

Ethel, you 87-year-old spring chicken.

It is slightly concerning.

It does suggest the Queen is basically saying, look, 95 is the new 40.

Okay.

Maybe real

outbreak of self-awareness from our raiding monarch to go, look,

sure, I'm 95,

but it doesn't really count because God is protecting me.

And also, the best available medical care in the United Kingdom is protecting me.

But it's mainly God.

The subtext, Alison, is very much see you in Magaloof.

Let's go.

The subtext is, see you in Magaloof the tops off Tuesday.

Yeah, the club 18 to 98.

She's got a few more years left.

One's best clubbing years are ahead of one.

Yep.

And in fact, coincidentally, 1898 was the year that Queen Victoria went to Magaloof.

Absolutely hammered every night.

Queen Victoria was the one who coined the phrase no carbs before Marbs, right?

That was the Queen Victoria original.

Yeah, she rejected the Victoria Sponge.

Yeah, it's very, it's a, it seems, I would be very

annoyed being the recipient of the Oldie of the Year award in 2021 to know that the Queen has rejected it.

So, you know, uh, I think I've been looking at who has won this year.

Uh, Delia Smith has won this year.

I, she, for me, is evergreen.

I wouldn't consider her to be an oldie, you know.

Um, who else is here?

That's after winning the oldie of the year award.

Um, Leslie Karen

and uh, Sir Jeff Hearst,

apparently.

Um, yeah, I mean, so what, what I mean, other than just still being alive, uh what what's what are the what are the judges looking for?

Uh it has to listen I'm editorializing here.

This is totally my opinion and I can't back any of this up, but it feels like these are the awards that they give to old white people who they can trust to be in public and not say something racist.

That that's just how it feels.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I don't remember Prince Philip winning one of these.

That's all I'm saying.

Well, I'm just after having a look at the awards here.

You know who's giving out the awards?

It's the Duchess of Cornwall.

And I feel that the Queen has gone a very elaborate plan to avoid her daughter-in-law

by rejecting an oldie award.

Attempt to avert the end of the world news now, and the COP26 summit is even more imminent than it was last week when we talked to you about it.

It begins on Halloween,

which I'm not sure is particularly

dates to choose to start

the summit.

I mean, COP26, I mean, according to John Kerry, it'd be better than April Fool's, though.

Marginally.

According to America's special envoy for the climate, John Kerry, COP26 is the last best hope for the world.

I don't think he entirely meant that when he said best.

I think he probably meant it's the last

remaining, not totally shit hope for the world.

Sort of like Churchill's famous quote on democracy when he described democracy as

along the lines of the rotting chipolata sausage in the buffet of turds, or words to that effect.

Nish, how optimistic are you that the world can finally come together and actually

do anything to say?

Because it seems like COP26 is very much the new catch-22 no-win situation.

Yes, it is possible to find long-term solutions, but it is really politically inconvenient, so there's no real way out.

Yeah, it's the uh, it's the Glastonbury of uh empty rhetoric.

It really is, it's

you know, this is it.

John Kerry has set laid down a gauntlet, and it feels like the rest of the world has looked at that and gone, oh, no, thank you.

That gauntlet looks pointy as fuck.

Already, we're getting stories about

internal dissensions, unhappy sponsors, and perhaps most worryingly this week, the news that Saudi Arabia, Australia, and Japan are lobbying to play down the need for the reduction of fossil fuels.

Now, listen, say what you will about Saudi Arabia, and you'll get chopped up and left for dead in a bin.

I laughed too hard.

Now I feel in danger.

I retract that laugh.

I retract that laugh.

The subtext of that is MBS is a delightful man with a wonderful beard.

Please, no problems.

He says the same about you, Nish.

I don't think anybody's bread rolling MBS.

That guy might have found his bread rolling arm removed.

Who does the Daily Telegraph prefer at the moment?

You or?

I think it's probably a dead heat.

I think if you ask most of the readership of the Daily Telegraph, they sort of see me as a Croydon-born Mohammed bin Salman.

Well, Well, I mean, there's a question on

the targets that are going to be set, and there seems to be some sceptic about

over-reaching, because as the old saying goes, if you shoot for the moon, your cannonball is probably going to land back on your head.

So that's generally why you just drop it on the floor.

Issues set for discussion at COP26 include: do we actually need walruses?

What do they actually do?

Ice caps, have we adequately avenged the sinking of the Titanic yet, or do we still need to teach them a lesson?

And if the world does end, who won?

Well, that brings us to the end of this week's bugle.

Um, Alison, it's been an absolute delight to have you

on the show.

Where else can our listeners find your work?

I got a podcast with Ferrin Brady called Wheel of Misfortune.

I have a podcast on my own called The Alison Spittle Show.

I'm on Twitter.

I don't want to be there, but you might as well follow me.

And please tell me to stop, stop scrolling, and go to sleep.

And I'm on

Instagram as well.

And I'm, am I doing any gigs no

no what is it this week i'm gonna be doing a i'm gonna be doing a sex-based gig in uh university well it's like it's for their like uh sexual health night and i'm gonna be doing comedy there so if you want to come to that in ucd uh only if you're a student please don't come to a student-based sexual health comedy night if you're a member of the public

you will be put on a list i'm afraid

but that's about it yeah

uh nish what have you got uh club me up uh of course the bugle live show on the 13th of no bugle live show on the 13th uh and if you live in the uk all of the episodes of the series of late night mash are available on the uk tv app and also i am going on tour uh from february to may next year uh and i'm going all over the united kingdom um and um

there are no plans for international dates as yet due to uh the United Kingdom Kingdom basically being a repository for COVID.

Um

so we're going to keep we as soon as that changes if it ever indeed does change uh or they don't just rope us off like a derelict building um we will announce those international dates.

But yes, tickets available at nichekumar.co.uk.

I will also be on tour in February and March.

Tickets available shortly

on the internet.

That concludes this week's bugle.

We are are reverting to Friday recordings for the next few weeks.

The current series of the news quiz has just ended.

You can find all them via the BBC website.

So we'll be off for about 10 days and then back early in November.

Thank you very much for listening.

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Don't forget to listen to The Gargle, where you will hear Alice Fraser and Alison and various other guests.

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It's producer Chris here.

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Quite simply, it's a show where me and my friend Richie review literally anything.

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