Hello and welcome back to page 94 the private eye podcast now with more episodes

than Russia has leaders of the opposition my name is Andrew Hunter Murray and if you

didn't like that joke there will be an email address for complaints at the end.

Today we will be talking about Bonsai Sumo wrestlers, the laughing duvet and the singing sponge of Bali,

all things found in privatized Nome Mart catalogue.

But before that, a few weeks ago the newspapers were full of headlines about another newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, the lead political commentator at the Telegraph, Peter Oborne, had resigned in disgust at the paper's

editorial line namely the decision not to criticize companies which had big

advertising accounts. This would all have come as very old news to private eye readers who have been following

developments of the telegraph for the last year or more.

As he resigned, Peter Oborne wrote that journalists at the telegraph had been turning to the pages

of private eye in order to find out what was going

on at their own paper.

So for the benefit of any Telegraph journalists listening, here is Private Eyes Francis

Wien with more about how it started.

I think it dates from the end of 2013 when the Telegraph quite

bizarrely appointed a new person called an editor-in-chief and chief content officer and he was an American

called Jason Saikon and no one at the telegraph had ever heard of him and they thought

who's this person who's our editor-in-chief

what qualifications does he have and it turned out his main claim fame was that he

he was a great digital guru or he thought of himself as one, and he had worked at PBS, the Public Broadcasting Service in America as a digital person where he had put Sesame Street online and created an app for it as well.

And so because he could create apps and do things online,

the chief executive of the telegraph called Murdoch Machenon, he appointed Saikka because he's

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