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Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

30: The Plodcast

Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

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4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Episode 30. A special episode on bungling police, including investigations into the Eye's own subscriber list and Ted Heath. With appearances from Jane Mackenzie, Rosie Waterhouse, Francis Wheen, and Ian Hislop. Free Get Out Of Jail card with every download!

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0:00.0

Ian, we're doing an episode about the police and various failings of theirs this week.

0:04.4

Is there anything that you'd like to add before we start the podcast proper?

0:08.8

Are you exercising the right to remain silent?

0:13.8

Yes.

0:14.8

Page 94, The Private Eye Podcast.

0:17.4

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

0:21.4

My name is Andrew Hunter Murray, and today we are going to look

0:24.4

for the first episode in our new run at private eye and the police we're going to be

0:29.4

talking about the extraordinary story in private eye about the late Prime Minister Ted Heath and

0:36.4

the investigation into him that has cost an enormous amount of money and delivered very

0:40.0

little by way of actual results. But before we get into that we need to talk

0:44.6

about the police in Hertfordshire. Now the eye was covered in a number of other

0:49.1

organs recently because of an extraordinary request that Harvard

0:53.4

Tripoli's made to Private Eye.

0:55.4

They had asked us to hand over our entire subscriber list for that county

1:00.3

as part of an internal disciplinary matter that they were investigating.

1:05.0

Now Jane Mackenzie covered this story for the eye and I sat down with her earlier this week to talk to her about it.

1:11.0

So Jane Mackenzie, you were up in court recently.

1:15.0

Not, not, you make that sound like I was actually up for a crime.

1:19.0

Sorry, you were in court recently. I was at Cambridge Crown Court for the day.

1:24.4

What were you there for? There was an application for a production order from Hertfordshire

1:30.3

Police to the eye, not to me personally, asking for our subscriber lists.

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