PHIL
When it’s Friday, you know it can only mean one thing: it’s Five in the Eye day! This is Phil Woodford in London wishing you a warm Colourful Radio welcome to our weekly news review show. And you’re listening to episode 0411.
MICHAEL
And joining Phil via Zoom this week, it’s me - Michael Ohjauru - revealing that our top story is going to be the extraordinary conference of Conservative Party right-wingers that kept catching the headlines over the past week. Some of the views expressed seemed to be right off the scale!
PHIL
And for story number two, we’re heading to Turkey, where long-established leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan looks well positioned to triumph in the second round of the presidential poll. How exactly do these strongmen manage to cling on to power?
MICHAEL
What’s story number three this week? Well, my home city of Liverpool did a spectacular job last weekend at hosting the Eurovision Song Contest. Arguably, it was the most successful staging of the event ever, with record viewing figures. But it only came to the UK because of tragic circumstances thousands of miles away.
PHIL
Our fourth story is M&S’ rather nice letter to a man who was playing around with their Percy Pig trademark and some ice cream.
MICHAEL
And finally, to wrap up the show this week, it’s the man who claims to have found the perfect substitute for toilet paper!
PHIL
The only question is whether we want to take a ‘leaf’ out of his book! And that’s this week’s Five in the Eye!
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