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4161 - Corruption, Covid and Cricket

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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

🗓️ 4 August 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

As well as pigeon racing and questionable knighthoods, there is also Trump and Covid news.


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Andy Zaltzman

Mark Steel

Hari Kondabolu


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Transcript

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0:00.0

The Bugle, audio newspaper for a visual world!

0:13.8

Hello, buglers and welcome to issue 4161 of the Bugle audio newspaper for a visual world.

0:21.2

It is Monday, the 3rd of August.

0:23.6

We're recording on a Monday.

0:25.0

Who knew!

0:25.8

Monday's even existed!

0:27.3

I mean it's like we're doing last week's news like tonight.

0:31.6

I'm Andy Zoltzmann and I'm in London.

0:33.9

The city very badly named if you want to avoid where you live fitting nicely into two word policies involving the word lockdown.

0:40.4

I'm recording live as always now in the shed and a little into cricket gap in my reality avoiding schedule.

0:47.9

And joining me from the west coast of the USA is the soon to be father who will very imminently have a whole new

0:55.6

person to explain this ****ing planet to.

0:58.5

Good luck with that!

1:00.0

To Harry Condabalu.

1:02.1

I chose the best time to have a kid.

1:05.7

There is no better time than now during a pandemic.

1:09.7

When it's quite possible that you're neither new or the child would be allowed out for 25 years.

1:15.3

That's like growing up in trouble.

1:19.7

25 of the child would say, what did it use to be like?

1:23.8

Was it true about the trees, Daddy?

1:26.0

They were made of wood.

1:29.7

What does a cloud look like, Daddy?

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