Page 94, the Private Eye podcast.

Hello and welcome to another episode of Page 94.

My name is Andrew Hunter Murray and this is the Paul Foot Awards mega special double bill.

We are very excitedly splitting the Paul Foot Awards coverage that we're doing into two

brilliant episodes stuffed with fantastic facts and journalism for you this year.

We're also doing something else that's slightly unusual. We are previewing the stories that

have been shortlisted for the awards. As you listen to this, the awards are going to be happening

tomorrow night and we will have a little supplementary mini episode later this week to tell you who

won from the party. But now we're going to be talking to three of the brilliant journalists

who've made it onto the short list for this year's awards and they are about to introduce themselves

now. Hi, I'm Sil Coleman, chief reporter at Newsquest Cumbria based in Carl Nile.

My entry was an expose of very distressing and disturbing incident which involved

police arresting a young man who had severe mental health problems. I had a very long legal

battle to get the police video of that incident and everything flowed from the success of that

challenge ultimately. My name is Hannah Summers, I'm a freelance journalist and I've written a

series of stories for the observer and the guardian and they're about transparency in the family

courts and about how decisions are reached about the welfare of children in private law cases.

My name's Paul Morgan Bentley, I'm head of investigations at the Times newspaper

and I went undercover to expose how British gas was breaking into the homes of vulnerable

customers during the cost of living crisis and force fitting expensive prepayment meters.

First we're going to talk to Paul who went undercover for his assignment. Paul, can you tell us

a little bit about what that involved? Yes, I went undercover as one of these deck collectors

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