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Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

68: The Snooty Fox

Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

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4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Episode 68. Tim Minogue of Rotten Boroughs tells the story of a pub landlord bankrupted and imprisoned by a local council vendetta, who has finally secured justice after more than 20 years; and housing correspondent Rachael Claye lifts the lid on the government’s (latest) promise to sort out the cladding crisis to see how much good it will actually do.

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Page 94, the Private Eye podcast.

0:03.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of Page 94.

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My name is Andrew Hunter Murray,

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and this week we are going to be talking about two very different stories,

0:12.0

but two absolutely fascinating ones which have been in the magazine lately.

0:15.0

The first is the story of Dr. Jeff Monks,

0:18.0

a pub landlord who for about 20 years had his life wrecked

0:24.0

by an extraordinary vendetta by the local council.

0:26.0

We're going to be talking about that in just a moment.

0:28.0

We're also going to be talking about cladding the government,

0:31.0

especially with its shiny new housing secretary Michael Gove,

0:34.0

has been making enormous promises that it's going to sort out the cladding crisis

0:38.0

that has ruined so many hundreds of thousands of people's day-to-day lives

0:42.0

for the last several years.

0:43.0

Are those promises actually going to match up and translate to reality?

0:47.0

Rachel Clay, the ice housing correspondent, will be telling us later.

0:50.0

But first, a story 20 years in the making.

0:54.0

Now, private eye often covers stories of miscarriages of justice

0:57.0

where ordinary people get trapped in the justice system.

1:00.0

Maybe they are the victim of a crime.

1:02.0

Maybe they are accused of a crime they didn't commit,

1:04.0

and it takes an enormous amount of effort to prove that they were in the right all along.

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