PHIL
Hello and a very warm welcome to the first Five in the Eye of 2022. We hope you had a great Christmas and New Year and are recharged for the year ahead. For those of you joining us for the first time, this is Colourful Radio’s weekly news review show. In fact, it’s episode 0339, and I’m Phil US could be under rightwing dictator by 2030, Canadian professor warns | US politics | The Guardian
MICHAEL
And joining Phil via Zoom this week, it’s me - Michael Ohajuru - revealing that we have a very special guest on the show. She joined us a year ago at a time of great tension and peril in the United States and she’s back to off her perspective one year on. It’s author, commentator and everyone’s favourite intellectual, Bonnie Greer! US could be under rightwing dictator by 2030, Canadian professor warns | US politics | The Guardian
PHIL
And after we’ve sorted out the future of America, our second story is going to be our love of doomscrolling. Are we always constantly searching for the latest catastrophic news on our phones? An art exhibition has visualised the phenomenon. Doomscrolling: the exhibition that visualises our appetite for bad news | Art | The Guardian
MICHAEL
And what’s story number three? Well, it’s the extraordinary tale of a man in China who was abducted as a child, but managed to find his way home many years later due to his precise recollection of the layout of his village. He’d last been there at the age of four, but was able to draw an accurate map! Abducted son finds family by drawing map of village he last saw aged four | China | The Guardian
PHIL
Truly extraordinary. And for our fourth story, it’s the Chilean beekeepers who brought some of their insects to a demo in Santiago. About 10,000 of the little critters to be precise! Sting operation: Police hurt during protest by beekeepers in Chile | Evening Standard
MICHAEL
And finally this week, to wrap up the five, it’s the news that Israeli scientists have trained goldfish to drive. Israeli scientists train goldfish to steer car around room | The Times of Israel
PHIL
They just go in circles around roundabouts! And that’s this week’s Five in the Eye
