MICHAEL
Hello and welcome! It’s Friday, so that can only mean one thing: it’s Five in the Eye day! This is me - Michael Ohajuru - saying one, two, THREE FOUR FIVE. Yes, it’s episode 0345 and you’re listening to Colourful Radio.
PHIL
And joining Michael by Zoom this week, it’s Phil Woodford, revealing that we’re welcoming a very special guest and an old friend of the Eye to review the week’s news with us. It’s barrister and communications expert, Mr Kola Sonaike. Hi there, Kola.
KOLA
Hi there Phil, hello Michael. Good to be back on Five in the Eye again. So what’s our top story going to be? Well, we’re going back to the tense stand-off over Ukraine. What exactly is Vladimir Putin’s game? And what have we learned about international relations in 2022?
MICHAEL
Story number two is the plea from senior Labour politician David Lammy that pardons should be granted to anti-slavery rebels who were involved in an uprising in 1823. The events took place in what is modern-day Guyana and the abolitionists were brutally suppressed.
PHIL
What’s story number three? Well Black barrister Leslie Thomas QC has suggested that lawyers should no longer wear their distinctive wigs in court. His call was in response to fellow advocate Michael Etienne’s public debate with the Bar Council on the subject. We’ll explore this with our resident legal eagle, Kola.
KOLA
At number four this week, it’s a runaway tortoise called Fred. He was missing for four years and managed to make it a whole mile away from home.
MICHAEL
And finally this week, to wrap up the five, it’s another story of a reunion. But this time with a pair of dentures! Yes, a man lost them on a boozy trip to Benidorm and now has them back. Eleven years later!
PHIL
As Kola might say, that’s the tooth, the whole tooth and nothing but the tooth! And that’s this week’s Five in the Eye.
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