# Awful and Awesome Ep 387: The Royals, Flintoff, subscriber letters Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-awful-awesome-entertainment-wrap-1164587/awful-and-awesome-ep-387-the-royals-flintoff-subscriber-letters Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-awful-awesome-entertainment-wrap-1164587/awful-and-awesome-ep-387-the-royals-flintoff-subscriber-letters.md Podcast: [The Awful & Awesome Entertainment Wrap](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-awful-awesome-entertainment-wrap-1164587) Published: 2025-05-30T11:56:26+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/the-awful-and-awesome-entertainment-wrap/episodes/awful-and-awesome-ep-387-the-royals-flintoff-subscriber-lett Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5ec24dba84c3fb5c3f29dd3a/e/68398668b2e4c2434bf2853d/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-awful-awesome-entertainment-wrap-1164587/episodes/awful-and-awesome-ep-387-the-royals-flintoff-subscriber-letters Duration seconds: 3702 ## Resource While discussing The Royals Abhinandan : You’re saying Bhumi Pednekar is good in this? Is she the redeeming factor? Rajyasree: No, she's horrible in this…But it has worked in her favour because everyone has logged on and watched the show.  Abhinandan: Why? Rajyasree: Because it’s so bad. Everyone trashed it so everyone logged on and watched it.   This and a whole lot of awful and awesome as Abhinandan Sekhri and Rajyasree Sen discuss the series The Royals , the documentary Flintoff , and multiple subscriber letters. Abhinandan also recommends his new favourite Punjabi song. Have something to say? Write to us at newslaundry.com/podcast-letters . Timecodes 00:00 - Introductions and announcements  01:43 - Headlines  11:15 - Letters 19:42 - The Royals 30:03 - Subscriber letters 41:23 - Flintoff 49:40 - Letters 57:37 - Abhinandan recommends a Punjabi song  References Cannes like you've never seen it before | BBC Global A Friendship, a Pandemic and a Death Beside the Highway Upamanyu Chatterjee’s interview  The Royals Flintoff Patiala Flow Click here to download the Newslaundry app on Android. And here for iOS. Produced and recorded by Priyali Dhingra and Anil Kumar, edited by Satish Kumar. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-awful-awesome-entertainment-wrap-1164587/episodes/awful-and-awesome-ep-387-the-royals-flintoff-subscriber-letters/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-awful-awesome-entertainment-wrap-1164587/awful-and-awesome-ep-387-the-royals-flintoff-subscriber-letters.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.