The Bugle, Audio Newspaper for a visual world.

Hello, buglers, and welcome to issue 4,348 of the bugle audio Newspaper for a Visual World with me.

Andy Zaltzman, it is Wednesday the 16th of July 2025, and I'm delighted to be joined in person

in a bizarrely grey studio that we've never worked in before on a gorgeous oval table.

It looks like might have had some weird, weird mystical medieval shit going on at some point.

Fresh off a plane from Australia.

Alice Fraser, hello Alice.

Hello, Andy.

I am delighted by the oval table.

It's for when you don't want true egalitarianism in your nights.

Also joining us, about to be fresh onto a plane back to India.

Anuvan Powell, hello, hello. This is a great reunion of, you know, we're usually on a Zoom

trying to stare at each other and now, you know, one bugler in, one bugler out. I think that's

how the Commonwealth should be.

Now, normally, I take my refuge from the news in cricket.

But this week, there was a nail-noringly, soul-shreddingly gripping test match between England and Indyureat Lords.

And I've had to dive snout first into world news for a bit of soothing respite.

Anuvab, you were there on the last day, ended up with England, getting a slightly fortuitous, bizarre win.

How has the nation of India reacted to this traumatic loss?

Well, I think just like that last batsman broke into tears, I think I think 1.3 billion people started howling and hugging each other, except there weren't that many English people around, sadly.

But one thing I've realized about cricket in your country, which is that it, in India, cricket's the people's game.

Here, I feel like if you're a 40 plus man, there's a sort of medieval druid subculture. These are my people you're talking about.

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