Page 94, the Private Eye Podcast.

Hello and welcome to a new episode of page 94, the Private Eye podcast.

I'm a very gravelly, Helen Lewis, sitting in for Andy this week as he recovers from being savagely attacked by a pack of wild koalas.

And with me are Adam McQueen, Ian Hislop and Jane McKenzie.

First off, as we were recording our last episode, Justin Welby resigned as Archbishop of Canterbury over his failure to follow up allegations of sadistic abuse at a Christian summer camp by a man called John Smythe.

Ian, we're going to have to start with you on this one because you took the unusual step of writing an editor's note about your encounter with Welby in the last print magazine.

Is that the first such editor's note that you have issued? No, I did it once

before when I had a very, very strange phone call from Julian Assange. And it was so bizarre that I thought

I can't not write this. On the whole, I try not to be the person who puts themselves in his

own paper. One reader kindly said this week,

oh God, you turned into Lebedev. And I thought, okay, fair enough. So that's what I was

worried about. But I did, I asked Francis Wien, who'd written all the stuff immediately. And he said,

well, you know, this happened. You've got to put this in. So I tried to write it up without being too self-serving and just register my complete amazement that he should be there the day after he resigned at a public event, smiling, pretending nothing had happened and literally making a beeline towards me and saying hello and I just I couldn't do the

politeness. I got a tip off last issue and I came in very excited to the office the next day.

I said to Wyn, you're not going to believe this. Guess who turned up at the trustees meeting

at the British Museum last night completely shamelessly. Only Justin Welby, the bloody

Archbishop of Canterbury, resigned yesterday.

And Ian said to me, oh, about that. Yes, that, that certainly prompted me to think about

doing some journalism. And was there a big response from readers? Yes. I mean, they have

overwhelmingly written in, which is very kind of them, and there are a lot of vickers, and there are a lot of Anglicans, and they are very pleased that someone has pointed out that they have to go on, you know, day after day, including Sundays, obviously, doing this job, and they feel very let down by the people supposedly in charge. Jane, I wanted to ask you a bit

about the fallout from this. It's obviously a story that the eye has been covering for quite a long time,

but there does seem to have been something that's happened in the wake of the report and actually

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