This week on The Bugcast: Alex turns 9, Covid cases go up, and the UK Government uses WhatsApp for security, plus 8 tracks of amazing Creative Commons music.
Songs played
- Indytronics – Irony Hunters – from Ukraine – source
- Talking Cure – Walking On The Road Of Mercy – from Chambery, France – source
- Barry Wilson – A Burger, A Beer and A Cookie Jar – from USA – source
- Jon Worthy – I Love You – from Nashville, TN – source
- Anton Mcloughlin – Searching – from Edinburgh, UK – source
- Kavi Jezzie Hockaday – I Just Wanted To Let You Know – from Sausalito, CA – source
- Dolly’s Girls – Imagine – from North West, UK – source
- Stingray SZN – Keep On Dancin’ – from Orlando, FL – source
Intro: <a href="http://chrisjuergensen.com/">Chris Juergensen</a> – Bug Lips<br />
Outro: <a href="http://markmarshall.com/">Mark Marshall</a> – Man Walking
Topics
Alex is 9!<br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-60872687">Covid: UK – free tests no longer available and cases climb by 1 million in 1 week</a><br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-60837166">Boris Johnson gets summaries of sensitive government data via WhatsApp</a>
<strong>Clocks to forward this weekend in the UK and parts of Europe!</strong>
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Announcements
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- The next show will be episode 707, which will be recorded live on Friday 1 April 2022 at 21:30-ish UK time (BST/UTC+1).
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(you’ll need a Telegram account) - Clocks go forward in North America this weekend, so the live show will start an hour later for a few weeks.
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The artists for allowing us to play their music.<br />
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<a href="https://archive.org/">Internet Archive</a> for hosting the media files<br />
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