PHIL
It’s Friday, so you know that can only mean one thing: it’s Five in the Eye day. In London, I’m Phil Woodford welcoming you to episode 0346 of Colourful Radio’s weekly news review show.
MICHAEL
And joining Phil via Zoom this week, it’s me - Michael Ohajuru - revealing that our top story is going to be about the crisis engulfing London’s tube and bus system. The coronavirus pandemic has hit Transport for London very hard financially, with talk in the media of bankruptcy. Can the organisation really hit the buffers?
PHIL
For story number two, we enter the extraordinary world of so-called ‘jobfishing’. A BBC investigation found that a large number of people were working online for months in the height of the pandemic. The trouble was that the company that notionally employed them was invented.
MICHAEL
And what about Wordle? Are you playing the daily quiz, now owned by the New York Times? We ask exactly how it’s become such a phenomenon and whether or not it’s really getting harder! That’s story number three this week.
PHIL
What’s our fourth story? Well, it’s the bizarre tale of an Air Marshal who has been instructed by police to write an apology to his neighbours for what the media are describing as an unwanted fly-by. We’ll explain more!
MICHAEL
And finally this week, to wrap up the show, Phil and I are still trying to get our heads around an extraordinary tale from America. Two sets of identical twins married each other and both have had baby boys at the same time. These cousins are genetically brothers. And everybody lives together in the same house!
PHIL
Double trouble if ever I heard it! And that’s this week’s Five in the Eye!
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