Page 94, the Private Eye Podcast.

Hello and welcome to another episode of Page 94.

My name is Andrew Hunter Murray and this week it is a 1500th issue anniversary, Bonanza Spectacular.

Private Eye has been going for 1500 glorious editions and so everything we do and say on this week's show is going to be celebrating that.

We've got the magazine's editor Ian Hislop talking about why the magazine is still going after so many years.

We will hear from the mysterious never-before-heard voices of Sheila and Jeff, who set up on the third floor and do a lot of very important managerial stuff.

We gather and we end with what else but a quiz.

This week's magazine has a full 50 question quiz in it so I've decided to put together a bonus quiz for the

Quiz master Adam McQueen. But first why is Private Ice still going so many years

after its 1961 debut as a tiny yellow magazine on about eight pages.

I asked the IZ editor Ian Hizlop exactly what is the secret of its ongoing success?

I think it's still going because the essential satirical

impulse is still there and 1500 issues on if you look at the first issue they were

essentially having a go at the Tory

party and wondering who was going to take it over so I don't think public life

changes that much in this country I suppose the real answer in the end is we're still

going just because the readers still want us to be going. If I look back at the

history there are certainly times where we were not only reliant on them to buy the

magazine but to bail us out from the various

rather desperate court cases which I seem to have landed us in and my predecessor Richard Ingrams

even more before that.

So we're very grateful to the readers on all fronts.

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