It used to be Private Eye on the Guardians, Paulford Awards. You've now consciously

uncoupled and it's just Private Eye. Any comment on that? Well I mean we've spent

you know two years in very very complex negotiations to get out of the deal with

the guardian it's gone well a lot of compromise on both sides and there's no deal so So it's just our awards.

Page 94, the Private Eye Podcast.

Hello and welcome to another episode of Page 94, The Private Eye Podcast.

My name is Andrew Hunter Murray, and tonight we bring you a live

podcast brought to you from the Pulford Awards the awards ceremony with

champions investigative journalism we're going to be hearing from all the people

who've been nominated will be hearing from the editor of the magazine will be hearing from all the people who've been nominated, or will be hearing from the

Chief Judge.

If you weren't here for episode one, which was a similar vibe but recorded with substantially

worse quality microphones,

then this is like a really souped up sequel to that.

So we'll go now and we'll talk to Podrigredi,

who is the chief judge of the awards.

Here he is.

One of the things that we really looked at with the prize this year was people who stuck at a story that

seems unfashionable possibly or was in Westminster based and thought is this something that Paul

would do and I think the ones that made the shortages were all ones that were not

necessarily big stories of big names but there were stories that

revealed something fundamentally true about our society. Well that's another

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