Lunar as Private Eye's office dog, what do you think about what that nasty Jeremy Thorpe did to rinker?

Well, we're going to have to bleep that.

Page 94, the Private Eye Podcast.

Hello and welcome to a new series of page 94 the Private I Podcast.

My name is Andrew Hunter Murray and this week in our first episode we are going to be looking

at Jeremy Thorpe and Privatized role in his downfall as recently dramatized

on the BBC, but before that we are going to be looking at Accountancy. Don't switch

off we are also going to a party. So Richard Brooks is privatized tax correspondent and he has just

written a book all about accountancy called Bean counters, The Triumph of the Accountants

and how they broke capitalism.

Thanks to having someone on the inside, we were able to go to the launch party for this book,

so I spoke to Richard there and asked him what's going on with accountancy.

I also managed to speak to Margaret Hodge

MP. She's the MP for barking and for many years she was the chair of the

Public Accounts Committee which looks into exactly the sort of financial dodgy

dealings that Private Eye likes to cover.

So you'll hear her in a minute.

First of all, I ask Richard exactly what the heck is the trouble with accountancy today.

The trouble is that in the last 50 years or so it's become very commercialized.

The idea of just checking the numbers has turned into manipulating the numbers,

flogging as many services as you can to the people who should be telling you the true

numbers and whose numbers you should be checking.

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