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.
#897 Almost 10,000 days
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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.
- Please leave us feedback on the music or any of the topics that we’ve discussed.
- 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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Special thanks go to
- Our supporters!
- The artists for allowing us to play their music.
- Everyone who joined us in the chat room for the live broadcast of this show.
- Internet Archive for hosting the media files
- Yannick (FrenchguyCH) for the use of his Shoutcast server
- PaulT (Radio Els Mussols) for the use of their Icecast server
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