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4160 - Worms Around The Moon

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News, News Commentary, Satire, Test Match Special, Comedy, Chris Addison, The Last Post, Nish Kumar, Urncast, Tiff Stevenson, Hari Kondabolu, Alice Fraser, Andy Zaltzman, The Gargle, Mildly Informed, Politics, Top Stories, John Oliver

4.86.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Andy is with Anuvab Pal and Alice Fraser to look at Chinese and Russian influence and Indian weddings.


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The Bugle is hosted this week by:


Andy Zaltzman

Alice Fraser

Anuvab Pal


And produced by Chris Skinner and Ross Ramsey-Golding. FUB.


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0:00.0

The Bugle, audio newspaper for a visual world!

0:13.5

Hello, Bugleers, and welcome to issue 4,160 of the Bugle, audio newspaper for a world

0:19.8

that doesn't really know if it's visual anymore.

0:21.7

It's frankly got no idea what it is, and to be honest, I and his ultimate, am not entirely

0:26.6

sure if it is.

0:28.2

But does this world, it is very hard to tell if anything exists now.

0:33.9

It's partly because there is nothing about our world-renowned planet at the moment

0:37.6

that suggests that anything genuinely believable is actually incredibly happening.

0:44.6

And partly because I'm recording this at Old Trafford Cricket Ground, where from tomorrow

0:49.6

morning I will be watching my 11th to 15th days of international cricket in an empty

0:55.3

stadium out of the past 17 to 21 days of my life in my parallel existence as a cricket

1:02.9

stature.

1:03.9

To be honest, at the moment, I've no idea if reality has a concept even exists and

1:10.5

B, that is nowhere near a high enough proportion of days watching cricket to help me get through

1:15.0

the planet at the moment.

1:16.7

Reluctantly therefore, Bugleers, for you I will do my best to make sense of the rest of

1:21.0

the world outside the cricket bubble and to help me in this melodorous task.

1:23.8

I'm joined from India by Anuvaab Pal and from Australia, nothing can phaser, it's Alice

1:29.3

Fraser.

1:30.3

Hello Andy, hello Douglas.

1:33.9

Hello Andy.

1:34.9

Hello both of you.

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