Page 94, the Private Eye Podcast.

Hello and welcome to another episode of Page 94.

My name is Andrew Hunter Murray, and this edition we'll discuss the BBC,

first of all, it is in the middle of another enormous reorganization so we're

going to talk about what that means for the journalists who actually work there

we're also going to have a look at public health England the agency which has

just been axed by the government and will find out exactly

what that means for the public health of England apart from anything else.

Finally we're going to be talking to the magazine's editor Ian Hislop about the

trials and the tribulations and the occasional

joys of producing a magazine in a state of lockdown when people not only aren't allowed to leave

home to buy a magazine at a newsstand they're also not allowed to leave home to work on a

magazine that's coming up later but first coronavirus again one of the

recent stories about the ongoing crisis is the government's announcement that it's going to axe its

health agency, Public Health England.

And Public Health England is going to be replaced by a new agency called the National

Institute for Health Protection.

This is all a bit confusing for anyone who doesn't work in the field of public health, and in fact

it's quite confusing for those who do.

I spoke to Phil Hammond, privateised medical correspondent, and started off by asking

him what Public Health England actually was. Here's Phil.

I think one of the problems is nobody was quite sure. If you look on its website, which is interestingly

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