This week on The Bugcast: we celebrate togetherness, meeting with people, lots more theatre, examinations, Eurovision, Judith Chalmers, and eight tracks of Creative Commons and independent music.
Songs played Signed In Black – The Story Of A Just Man – from Russia/Germany – source * Federico Guglielmetti – Più Niente di Te – from Italy – source * GIUCA – You And Me (feat. Annalena) – from Freiburg, Germany – source * Liz Sumner – Little Plowboy – from Pergola, Italy – source * Kodira – Just Not Really – from France – source * Manuelo & Co. – Esperando a Maria – from Spain – source * Nick Falcon – Flight Attendant – from Paris, France – source * Forget The Whale – Fortune Favors* – from Jersey City, NJ – source
Intro: Chris Juergensen – Bug Lips
Outro: Mark Marshall – Man Walking
Topics* Almost 10,000 days * Little Theatre Guild – Youth Theatre Festival, Birmingham * Meeting with fatfreddie and mrsfatfreddie * Lunch with PhilFromWork * The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals * Gods and Heroes next week for Alex and Dave * Dave has his amateur radio Intermediate exam next week * Eurovision review * Farewell Judith Chalmers
Upcoming events Podcrawl Early Solstice 2026 on Saturday 13 June from 18:00 UK time * TuxJam Half-cut on Saturday 1 August in Manchester, UK – details to follow * Only a few weeks left to submit tracks for the Listeners Choice, episode 900 in June.*
Announcements There will be no show on Friday 29 May.
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* The next show will be episode 898 which will be streamed live on Friday 5 June 2026 at 21:30-ish UK time (BST, UTC+1)*.
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