Episode Details

This week on The Bugcast: amateur radio, wildfire alerts, train derailments, Idle Fantasy, Jason Arday, and eight tracks of Creative Commons and independent music.

Songs played

• H.I.M. – I’m Not The Flame – from Russia – source
• Kris Dee – Runaway (feat. Laura Wibberley-Wood) – from Essex, UK – source
• Signed In Black – Down Again – from Russia – source
• Alex Freem – Wishful Thinking – from USA – source
• Foresister – Дискотека – from Ukraine – source
• Complicated People International – My Turn To Turn – from USA – source
• Ed Napoli – Copo Virado – from Brazil – source
• Strange Pink – Boys Club – from Hull, UK – source

Intro: Chris Juergensen – Bug Lips
Outro: Mark Marshall – Man Walking

Topics

• Caroline is now a licensed amateur operator; callsign M6VRY
• Radio adventures on Monday
• BBC News: Millions sent wildfire emergency phone alert warning against ‘any activity that could start a fire’
• BBC News: Weekend cancellations after East Sussex train derailment
• BBC News: Derailed Essex train leads to travel chaos
• Idle Fantasy Update
• BBC News: Jason Arday, ex-Cambridge professor at centre of plagiarism row, found dead

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