MICHAEL
Hello and a very warm welcome - on what has been a very warm week! - to Five in the Eye. If you’re a regular listener, you’ll know this is Colourful Radio’s news review show, where we dissect five of the stories that have caught our eye over the past seven days. And this is me - Michael Ohajuru - introducing episode 0315.
PHIL
And this is Phil Woodford joining Michael via Zoom this week and revealing that our top news item is going to be about the Labour Party. Sir Keir Starmer, the party leader, has this week got his national executive to outlaw four left-wing splinter groups, meaning the automatic expulsion of their members. Is this a first step towards regaining the trust of the public?
MICHAEL
For story number two, we’re going to talk about the arts. A heartbroken Andrew Lloyd-Webber was forced to cancel his production of Cinderella this week, despite Freedom Day. With Covid in the cast and the need for self-isolation, the old adage that the ‘show must go on’ had to be abandoned. Are we in danger of abandoning our theatres?
PHIL
What’s story number three? Well the Olympic Games finally kicks off officially in Tokyo today amid a lot of controversy and cases of corona. Meanwhile, there was embarrassment for the Polish swimming team, who’d miscalculated the number of athletes they were allowed to send to Japan.
MICHAEL
When former US President Bill Clinton came to London in 1997 for a four-hour stopover, it’s been revealed that he declined tea with the Queen in favour ‘being a tourist’ in London. That’s story number four.
PHIL
And finally this week, to wrap up the show, what about the guy in America who spent two hours cleaning his friend’s apartment and playing with the cats there. Only his friend didn’t own any felines and he’d been cleaning the wrong flat!
MICHAEL
A big bonus for the surprised owners! And that’s this week’s Five in the Eye!
