The Bugle! Audio Newspaper for a visual world.

Hello, buglers, and welcome to issue 4,350 of the bugle audio newspaper for a visual world.

This is the 30th of July 2025.

I am Andy Zaltzman, and I'm currently 24 days of cricket into a potential 29 days of test cricket out of 55 days of actual time marathon.

That's only just over half of the last 55 days, which to me is not quite enough. I'm part of a scientific

research project to find out if you can have too much of a good thing, and I'm delighted to

answer, no, you can't. But anyway, in amongst the cricket, we have time for this, the final

full bugle before our August hiatus. We will have a couple of sub-episodes

for you to tie you over until September Hove's interview. But before that, joining me for

respectively the first and not the first time. It's Sarah Barron and NATO Green. I'll leave a gap

for you to applaud at home or wherever you're listening to this. Hello.

Thanks for that warm reception. Sarah, welcome to the bugle.

Oh, my God.

What an honor to be here.

Thank you.

I feel like we're taking you away from the cricket in a way that I worry is almost

physically painful for you.

Is that how it feels?

Well, we're currently in a gap between matches.

So once we've finished recording here,

I only have, I think, another 17 hours of cricketlessness

before it restarts.

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