PHIL
Good morning! Well, somehow or other we’ve done it! You’re listening to the 400th edition of Five in the Eye on Colourful Radio. This is Phil Woodford in London and I’d like to say a big thank you to our two resident lawyers, Bob McAra and Kola Sonaike, for standing in for me over the past couple of weeks.
MICHAEL
And joining Phil for this landmark show today, it’s me - Michael Ohajuru - revealing that we have a very special guest. It’s none other than playwright, author, media personality and everyone’s favourite intellectual, Bonnie Greer! We’ll welcome her properly in just a minute.
And for our first story, we’re going to be looking at the so-called ‘Windsor Framework’ for Northern Ireland. Has Rishi Sunak found a way out of the post-Brexit impasse? And why is the Biden administration so interested in developments on the other side of the Atlantic?
PHIL
Our second story this week is the hullabaloo over words getting changed in books. First it was Roald Dahl being made politically correct for the 21st century. Then, there were reports of James Bond author Ian Fleming having his words both shaken and stirred. Essential adaptation for a modern audience? Or the ‘woke’ rewriting of history?
MICHAEL
What’s story number three today? Well, it’s our old friend ChatGPT. School students taking particular exams will be allowed to get the talkative AI to write essays for them!
PHIL
For our fourth story, there’s been a revival in medieval medical cures, such as leeches and maggots. Michael probably remembers them from the first time around.
MICHAEL
And to conclude the show, this week, it’s the man who spent nearly 3,000 consecutive days visiting Disneyland. He’s entered the Guinness Book of World Records.
PHIL
That was no Mickey Mouse effort on his part. And that’s this week’s Five in the Eye!
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