Page 94, The Private Eye Podcast.

Hello and welcome to another episode of page 94.

My name is Andrew Hunter Murray and today we are here.

We are at the Pee Foot Awards, the most exciting day in the investigative journalism calendar.

We're at a huge crowded party with the nominees, journalists from everywhere.

No, no, sorry. We're actually, actually of course at home just like you are and just like everyone else has been for a very long time.

However, the Paulford Awards are still happening and there is a shortlist full of the most amazing

interesting brilliant stories by some of the most dogged and determined

journalists out there. We'll be hearing from all the shortlisted

journalists with an amazing array of stories covering subjects from corruption to well actually it is mostly corruption in all sorts of places but there are many different kinds of corruption

but before we get into all that here is Ian Hislock the magazine's editor. I

started off by asking him how excited he was about a virtual Paulford Awards.

Yeah, we've suddenly moved into a different world but it is very worthwhile just in a different way. I mean there's

there's obviously less alcohol and hacks falling over and more concentration on the stories.

So regular listeners to the

podcast will have known before that we do this but just for anyone who's new can you

tell us a bit about the awards their purpose and of course about Paul Foote?

Yes when Paul Foote who was a sort of great campaigning journalist and mainstay of the eye in two batches,

one in the early days of the 60s and then he left and then when I became editor almost the first and certainly the best decision

I made was to rehire him and covered an extraordinary range of miscarriage of justice and campaigning journalistic stories.

I mean, just an incredible range.

When he died, we wanted to set up some award to remember him.

...