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Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

83: Water Disaster

Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

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4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Episode 83. Helen Lewis, Adam Macqueen and Jane Mackenzie join Andrew Hunter Murray to discuss the week's news: Have I got Huws For You, the imminent by-election bonanza and things (schools) falling apart. Plus, Solomon Hughes and Sarah Shannon reveal the UK's water situation.

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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.

0:05.5

My name is Andrew Hunter Murray and joining me this week in the editorial lounge

0:10.9

to discuss the news. Adam McQueen, Adam Lewis and Jane McKenzie.

0:15.0

Later on in the show we're also going to be talking about the UK's water situation,

0:19.7

water, water everywhere and all of it's horrible because it's got sewage floating in it.

0:23.7

We'll be talking to Sarah Shannon and Solomon Hughes about that.

0:27.2

But firstly, back to the, I think editorial lounge might be the way to go with this.

0:31.1

I mean, make some that we're going to do some live freeform jazz at some point, but

0:34.8

push it across that off the agenda. Okay, so first of all, I suppose we should talk about a story

0:40.7

that was enormous in the news last week, has faded away a bit since then.

0:44.6

The story about the mystery BBC presenter who was alleged to have been doing all sorts of,

0:51.6

how do they call it, awful bit lawful and impossibly unlawful too in some cases,

0:56.2

sexual misconduct. There was a big old search for who it might be and lots and lots and lots

1:02.3

of very inaccurate speculation before eventually it was revealed that the presenter in question

1:07.4

was Hugh Edwards. So Adam, you wrote a bit about the story, didn't you? We did. We did.

1:11.2

It was a slight scramble at the last moment on a press day, on Monday morning to try and

1:16.0

cobble something together in one of those cases of absolutely appalling time. Probably the worst

1:20.4

case of timing since Theresa May decided to use the Tuesday after we'd gone to press to call

1:24.5

a general election in 2017, but we did manage to kind of slightly be across that story and there

1:29.2

will be more to come, I hope, on that story in the issue coming up as well. It was a very odd

1:34.0

story in that I think it worked quite well for some of the sun in the end that they hadn't

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