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Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

81: Boris and Inquiries

Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

News

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Episode 81. Ian Hislop, Adam Macqueen and Helen Lewis take a look back at the week’s news - including Boris Johnson’s dangerously thin column, big SLAPPS and newspaper fire-sales; and medical correspondent Phil Hammond answers all your inquiries about the Covid Inquiry.

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0:00.0

Page 94, the Private Eye podcast.

0:03.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of Page 94.

0:06.0

My name is Andrew Hunter Murray and this week we are doing something very slightly different.

0:10.0

We are changing the format in the second half of this week's episode.

0:13.0

We're going to be doing one of the interviews you know and love with one of the writers from the magazine.

0:18.0

But in the first half of today's episode we are going to be talking a little bit about the news with a panel consisting of the magazine's editor,

0:25.0

Ian Hislop and two of the magazine's writers Adam McQueen and Helen Lewis.

0:29.0

We are recording this five days after the last magazine arrived on people's dormets.

0:35.0

And we thought it would be fun to talk about how the news might have changed,

0:40.0

what stories we got right, what stories might have moved on in interesting and unexpected ways

0:45.0

since the last issue of the magazine.

0:47.0

So the one thing I think we all wanted to talk about, we don't like looking at the past at Private Eye.

0:52.0

You know, we don't like looking way back.

0:54.0

I thought it would be fun to talk about someone new.

0:56.0

So in particular, I don't know if any of you three have noticed,

0:59.0

but there is a new journalist on the scene in Fleet Street, new columnist, really exciting.

1:04.0

He's arrived at the Daily Mail and he's making waves already.

1:07.0

He's called Boris Johnson.

1:09.0

Did any of you see this?

1:11.0

I did. I will confess I did.

1:12.0

I might be the only person in this room who quite enjoyed the column.

1:15.0

I thought I was going to be on this boring sort of like my revenge.

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