Ian this is a special episode because you've been editor for 30 years and you said you had an announcement you wanted to make before we started

Yes 30 years is a long time for anyone to do the same job this anniversary marks marks really a sort of time to reflect and think about what I've

done and what I want to do going forward and I felt I should announce essentially to the readership that I'm not going to resign.

Page 94, the Private Eye Podcast.

Hello and welcome to page 94.

My name is Andrew Hunter Murray,

and this is the second of our special one-off bonus inter-series episodes.

This is not to be confused with a very short two episode series. This is just

the stopgap to tide you over until we do the next full series. So today we are

celebrating 30 years that Ian Hizlock has been editor of the magazine

and because it's a special occasion we're going to do something a little bit special

with the sound quality page 94 is going into stereo. Hugely exciting. Here we go. We're going

to flip the switch now. Okay you're now listening in stereo. This is a luxury, don't get used to it.

Ian Hislop has been editing the magazine for the last 30 years since October 1986.

And to mark the occasion, we have... October 1986.

And to mark the occasion, we have conducted a wide-ranging interview

between Ian and Private Eye's biographer,

Adam McQueen, a man who literally wrote the book on Private Eye, he wrote Private Eye the first

50 years, now available in bookshops online.

This interview discusses some of the more notable incidents from Ian's editorship, how he got there in the first place,

the raid on the mirror buildings, the many, many lawsuits, and the people who write the magazine

today and how they ended up here in the first place. So here in our own bid for the

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