MICHAEL
Hello and a very warm welcome to Colourful Radio’s weekly news review. We call it Five in the Eye, because we cast our eye over recent stories and pick out the five that we think badly need discussing, debating and dissecting. This is me - Michael Ohajuru - and you’re listening to episode 0318.
PHIL
And this is Phil Woodford joining Michael via Zoom this week and revealing that our top tory is going to be the environmental catastrophe that is foreseen in the recent IPCC climate report. What can we practically do to avert disaster?
MICHAEL
Our second story this week is about working from home. Government minister Kwasi Kwateng says that civil servants in his business department should be coming into the office, while Google is threatening people who work from home with lower wages.
PHIL
What’s story number three? Well, a food influencer said that the term ‘curry’ was racist and sparked a furious online debate.
MICHAEL
For our fourth story, we head to China, where a herd of wandering elephants is finally making its way home after a year on the road. Is that a trunk road perhaps?
PHIL
And finally this week, a feelgood story as funnyman Peter Kay returns to the stage after a break of four years. And it’s all for a very good cause.
MICHAEL
He joked that he’d neve before received a standing ovation when he walked on to the stage. And that’s this week’s Five
