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Hello, Bugleers, and welcome to Bugle's sub-episode 4164A for Am not able to do a full episode this week.

You can, however, hear me hosting the new series of BBC Radio 4's The News Quiz, available from all good podcast shops or just asking nicely on the internet.

Or you can hear me banging on about the cricket again if that's your bag, which if it isn't, I want nothing more to do it.

You are still a valued Bugle listener who has my undying respect and gratitude and pity idiots.

Instead of a full episode this week, we have some prime off-cuts from recent Bugle recordings featuring me, Alice Fraser, Nish Kumar, Aditi, Mittal and Anuva Pal, plus the history of the world.

Well, bits of it, bits of it that happened in the equivalent week that we're now in but in different years since the Bugle began.

But first, Chris, crank up the off-cutting machine. Let's hear the gold that you siphoned off from all the other gold.

India News now and well, a huge story, Anuva, in fact, here in Britain, that a pair of Mahatma Gandhi's glasses were sent to an auctioneer and were left hanging out of the letterbox.

This is a kind of strange story, but apparently the glasses are worth around about 20,000 US dollars.

And it did make me think, Gandhi had a pair of 20 grand glasses. No wonder he couldn't afford a pair of two thousand.

For the time of spending, folks, for a warranties, you're spending.

Sure, a good pair of glasses make you look wise or authoritative, make you look like you mean business, but not.

If you're not accessorising them with at least a smart-ish business shirt.

It was all about accessories, Andy. This is the thing. So what happened is around four weeks ago, an auctioneer named Andy Stoll headed into work and was checking his letterbox at his office after the COVID lockdown in Bristol.

And he found this thing and it had a little note saying, these belonged to Gandhi and my uncle was given them.

When contacted this uncle, an 80-year-old man, said that they were given to him by the Mahatma Gandhi while he was employed in South Africa.

Apparently, Gandhi was very happy with a particular legal note this gentleman had written, so he gave him his glasses.

And, you know, has an Indian person? I've always had an issue with Gandhi's acts of reckless generosity.

You know, just like we're on the verge of independence with the civil disobedience movement of few people die and he calls it all off.

You know, where everywhere else a little bit of murder is natural in the path of independence, but not for Gandhi. He has to be like this recklessly generous person and he's also very altruistic.

You know, if he didn't ever have a nice watch or a lot of cash, so he just gave this guy his glasses and presumably walked around South Africa, not being able to see much for a week.

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