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Hello, I'm Tina Dehealey.

This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4,

a space to ask one big question about one big story.

Today, should the news amuse

the news differently. Last week I spoke to Stacy Dooley, who wasn't comfortable calling herself a journalist,

and that really surprised me. Well, today I'm speaking to called mischief maker who last year you may remember made the news for hacking Trip Advisors

review system getting his fake restaurant in a shed rated number one in London. Well whether he's blagging his way into Fashion Week or

sending fake versions of himself into the BBC his pranks are often both

elaborate and insightful so we've got him in to find out what makes him tick.

Uber Butler is a great name by the way.

Thank you. Really good.

Cheers. Where's it from?

I've been working on it.

Um, well my family is like, my dad's family is like Irish Catholic.

And I was basically raised feral by all my brothers and sisters. My elder sister's nickname was

Uber and then I just got given the name Uber. Yeah I think they just given up.

Done. That's not true. That's not true. How would you describe what you do? I've just called myself a writer and filmmaker maybe.

Or I'll just say I do things that sit somewhere between social experiments and pranks maybe.

It's funny because the other day someone,

I was called a journalist and that's what I'm here

I'm in the capacity of a journalist.

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