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Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

40: Live at the National

Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

News

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Episode 40. A star-studded cast of Harry Enfield, John Sessions, Jan Ravens and Lewis MacLeod join editor Ian Hislop for a live show at the National Theatre looking back at the year's news. Free plug for the Private Eye Annual with every download!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Page 94, the Private Eye Podcast.

0:02.8

Hello and welcome to another episode of page 94.

0:05.9

My name is Andrew Hunter Murray and we are back at the National Theatre in London

0:10.6

for another show of Private Eye live at the national. We're here for the private eye

0:15.2

annual which is being dramatized tonight very excitingly by a cast including

0:19.9

Louis McCloud, Harry Emfield, John Sessions and Jan Ravens with extra guitar solos from Craig Brown.

0:27.0

And here to kick it off is the magazine's editor, Ian Hislov.

0:30.0

Thank you.

0:37.4

Thank you. And to start we're going to have a piece to cheer us up, reproduce from privatized sister paper, The Penguin Times.

0:41.7

It gives you the news in black and white.

0:45.0

This opinion piece from the Penguin Times was written by a distinguished 93 year old

0:50.0

Penguin, and it's called, we step in and help humans.

0:55.0

We've all seen the footage.

1:00.0

The desperate plight of millions of powerless Brits trapped deep in a harsh

1:06.7

unforgiving hole facing certain doom with no idea how to get out.

1:14.0

Should we, as penguins, let nature take its course and

1:18.0

leave them to their fate?

1:20.0

Is it our duty as intellectually and morial superior creatures to waddle in and help them escape in some way?

1:28.0

Or should we let them jump over a cliff?

1:32.0

In slow motion with stirring music and a commentary by myself.

1:39.0

At the moment their future looks cold and bleak. Should we save them from Brexit? Sadly the answer has to be no.

1:50.0

It's none of our business. We're penguins. We've got to let nature take its course.

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