MICHAEL
Good morning and welcome! You’re listening to Colourful Radio and this is me - Michael Ohajuru - welcoming you to episode 0332 of our weekly news review show, Five in the Eye.
PHIL
And joining Michael this week via Zoom, it’s Phil Woodford, revealing that we’ve invited a very special guest to join us today. Mr Steve Martin is going to help us dissect five of the stories that have caught our eye over the past seven days.. Hi there Steve!
STEVE
Hi Phil, hello Michael. It’s good to be here on Five in the Eye. Our first story this week is going to be about asylum seekers. Priti Patel has seized on the fact that the man who detonated a bomb at the women’s hospital in Liverpool was in the asylum system. Meanwhile, record numbers of people are crossing the Channel and thousands are camped on the border of Belarus and Poland.
MICHAEL
For story number two, we talk about the young Black teenager who has been stopped and searched 30 times by the police and contrast his prospects with middle-class university graduates, who are apparently much more likely to walk into jobs than the students on their course who are more disadvantaged.
PHIL
For story number three, we ask whether the word ‘woke’ has been hijacked by the right wing and ask what it takes to change people’s attitudes and behaviours. In a week where the Head Chef at posh hotel Claridge’s quit, because bosses weren’t socially aware enough to embrace his plant-based menu.
STEVE
What’s story number four? Well, a Japanese train driver was fined 28p for rolling into a station a minute late. He’s suing his employer!
MICHAEL
And to wrap up the five this week, Prince Harry apparently consulted Princess Di’s old psychic, who predicted that he’d marry Meghan. Or should that be Mystic Meghan?
PHIL
I foresee an interesting conversation ahead. And that’s this week’s Five in the Eye!
