{"podcast":{"title":"Top Stories!","slug":"top-stories-5720372","podcast_index_feed_id":5720372,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/6310d4dfae5d1300124c4e12","website_url":"https://shows.acast.com/top-stories","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/6310d4dfae5d1300124c4e12/1664637377723-5520589a703a14a7162687ef303f9b98.jpeg","author":"The Bugle","episode_count":567,"summary":"Celebrating The Bugle's best moments, this daily show takes us back through the some of the greatest stories the The Bugle has deemed newsworthy. Featuring the best moments from Andy Zaltzman, John Oliver and guest Co-hosts We are listener funded, support what we do here This is a Bugle Podcasts production. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-09T14:20:56.533369+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/top-stories-5720372"},"episode":{"title":"Tensions growing in the Middle East","slug":"tensions-growing-in-the-middle-east","published_at":"2026-05-29T04:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/top-stories-5720372/tensions-growing-in-the-middle-east","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/top-stories-5720372","url":"https://shows.acast.com/top-stories/episodes/tensions-growing-in-the-middle-east","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6310d4dfae5d1300124c4e12/e/6a05f7afefd1f558b0316229/media.mp3","summary":"Welcome back to Top Stories. We're taking you all the way back, to ‘not’ quite the beginning but close enough, the 13th of June 2011. Where Andy and John discussed the Top Story that week, that tensions in the Middle East continue, and the Yemen crisis.  That was another Top Story. Thanks for listening. Now pop over the mothership and listen to the last Bugle podcast. It’s like Top Stories, but longer and newer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"Welcome back to Top Stories. We're taking you all the way back, to ‘not’ quite the beginning but close enough, the 13th of June 2011. Where Andy and John…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":722,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/top-stories-5720372/episodes/tensions-growing-in-the-middle-east/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/top-stories-5720372/tensions-growing-in-the-middle-east.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}