John Oliver returns to The Bugle in a momentous week, to explore the fall of Assad, politics on both sides of the Atlantic (sandwiches all round) and the latest announcements from FIFA. It's a bumper edition!

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Andy Zaltzman

John Oliver

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South Korea tries a little martial law, France dusts off the guillotine, Joe Biden dishes out a special Christmas present. 2024 seems to have taken a laxative.

Andy Zaltzman is with James Nokise and Ria Lina

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Ria Lina

James Nokise

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Andy is with Felicity Ward and Hari Kondabolu, to review COP, the latest ceasefire, and if there are any jokes that can be made about assisted dying. Sounds bleak, right, WELL YOU'RE WRONG! Plus there's a new Bugle advent calendar!

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Hari Kondabolu

Felicity Ward

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Andy is with Alice and Anuvab and they pick the finest moments from this week's news. What a week! Social media bans, war and corruption aplenty! Also, we set you a new challenge.

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Alice Fraser

Anuvab Pal

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Trump has recruited a perfectly normal team to take America forwards. Also, Cop29 is a gift from God, and Andy has a run down on God's next pick for chief religious person.

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Josh Gondelman

Tiff Stevenson

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Andy is joined by Nato Green to process what America has done to itself.

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Nato Green

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Andy Zaltzman, Nish Kumar and Alice Fraser look at the final moments of the US election. Is Donald Trump still functioning? Is this the end of polls? Can we all vote?

Also, the British Royal Family: Rich.

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Andy Zaltzman

Nish Kumar

Alice Fraser

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Elon musk's million dollar cheques, Christopher Columbus & drug dealing snowboarders. This week we plunge deep into the weird (and not so wonderful) with quite literally a mountain of global headlines to wade through.

Andy is with Alice Fraser and Josie Long in a podcast that is funded by you, the listener...

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Andy is in Pakistan so we revisit a classic from The Bugle, where Andy, John talked about things that were happening, including jokes.

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This week we visit the moon, discuss sausages v. hostages, and for our friends in New York - what is a bribe?

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JD Vance continues to do the opposite of shine, the Labour Party are bad at politics, and who cares about moths? Andy is with Alice Fraser and Hari Kondabolu.

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