The Bugle, audio newspaper for a visual world.

Hello, Bugleers, and welcome to issue 4164 of the Bugle, audio newspaper for a visual

world with me and his ultimate, the 5-time winner of the... what was it again?

Yeah, never mind. It's Thursday the 27th of August, not for the first time and

Adventure, not for the last either, I hope not. Anyway, I am live in London and if

you told someone standing right here 3000 years ago that today a 45-year-old

second-generation lapsed you would be recording a podcast with two guests, one in

Australia, one in India, via the internet, on this very spot. Well, you would have been

met with some very blank faces and possibly an invitation to sharpen a piece of

Flint and nip up to the woods to kill some dinner. But that is exactly what is

happening right now. I'm in the shed and joining me from Sydney, Australia, it's

Alice Fraser, hello Alice. Hello Andy, hello Bugleers, I am indeed in Sydney,

Australia and it's quite nice here, which is a change for the world. Yeah,

with that is the best the world has achieved this year, I think. Outside the

cricket bubble I think, quite nice, as good as the planet can get right now.

What's making it quite nice? Well, I've just moved my dad out of the flat we

were sharing into his own house, he's bought a house and so it's been unpacking

boxes and looking at memories and throwing them away. A metaphor for humanity

itself and joining us from Mumbai, India, where will Mumbai sit on the quite

nice scale to tell us it's a Diti Mittal. Hello Andy, hello Bugleers, so nice to be

here. Andy, I mean, I think it's now a well-known fact that I don't engage with

the outside world because my own mania has kept me pretty busy during this

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