Page 94, The Private Eye Podcast.

Hello and welcome back to page 94.

My name is Andrew Hunter Murray.

If you've been listening to the podcast over the last six days,

it will come as no surprise for you to hear that we are live at the Paulfoot Awards

2024.

We've been speaking over the last six days to the Hacks and teams of Hacks who've been

shortlisted for this year's awards. All of their stories have been

absolutely fantastic and we are now about to go over to Ian Hislop who is in

due course going to tell us who has won this year's award. Over to Ian. Good evening.

I'll open with an apology.

I'll open with an apology, private eye in the last issue we put in a picture of Ed

Davy with the liberal bus and rather childishly put next stop Cheshingdon

world of Adventures.

I'm terribly sorry, it was in fact thought park.

You really can't make any of it up.

This is an anniversary in lots of ways.

It's the 20th anniversary of Paul Foote's death this year,

but it's also, and this is unbelievable, in 1987, Paul Foote

wrote a piece about the infected blood scandal.

That's 1987. It is incredible sometimes how long journalism takes to work.

I mean, Paul started this and it was carried on by a very brilliant journalist at the eye, Heather Mills, who's retired, and she managed to

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