MICHAEL
Hello and a very warm welcome to Five in the Eye on Colourful Radio. It’s me - Michael Ohajuru - back after a week away. Thanks so much to Abi Law for standing in for me last week and explaining the price of onions! Today, you’re listening to episode 0417.
PHIL
And this is Phil Woodford joining Michael via Zoom and revealing that our top story is the astonishing news that kids in the UK are becoming shorter. And experts put it down to the effects of austerity over nearly a decade and a half.
MICHAEL
What’s story number two? Well, the astonishing cost of sending migrants to Rwanda has been revealed. Is it another nail in the coffin of Suella Braverman’s plan to deter boat crossings?
PHIL
For story number three, we travel to Rome, where a tourist has been condemned for scratching graffiti onto the ancient Colosseum.
MICHAEL
And our fourth story is the bizarre cage fight that has been proposed between tech billionaires Elon Musk of Twitter and Mark Zuckerberg of Meta.
PHIL
And to wrap up the show, at number five, it’s the student in China who has tried 27 times to pass the exams to get into university. But at the age of 56, should he perhaps call it a day?
MICHAEL
Well, he is a millionaire, so perhaps he doesn’t need all the book learning! And that’s this week’s Five in the Eye!
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