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privateeyenewsPage 94 The Private Eye Podcast - The PlodcastEpisode 30
A special episode on bungling police, including investigations into the Eye's own subscriber list and Ted Heath. With appearances from Jane Mackenzie, Rosie Waterhouse, Francis Wheen, and Ian Hislop. Free Get Out Of Jail card with every download!2017-10-1926 min
privateeyenewsPage 94 The Private Eye Podcast - Brexit And BloodEpisode 29
Heather Mills discusses the contaminated blood scandal which has finally been granted a public inquiry, and the series ends with a medley of Eye contributors - led by Our Man In Brussels, Ben Fox - telling us everything we know about Brexit, and everything we don't. Free movement of people with every download!2017-07-2832 min
privateeyenewsPage 94 The Private Eye Podcast - Paul Foot AwardsEpisode 28
The Paul Foot Awards return! A special episode from the awards ceremony for investigative journalism, including dodgy fishing quotas, dodgy Garden Bridges, exorcisms and more. Free press with every download!2017-06-2629 min
privateeyenewsPage 94 The Private Eye Podcast - Finance and ForensicsEpisode 27
Election-Free Special! A strong and stable episode all about how Britain's getting involved in dodgy trade deals overseas, plus the first edition of CSI:94, investigating who murdered Britain's Forensics Science Service. Free enormous bribe with every download!2017-06-0527 min
privateeyenewsPage 94 The Private Eye Podcast - Hospitals And HacksEpisode 26
An election medical special: the Eye's medical correspondent, MD, talks about the Conservatives' last 7 years running the NHS, and a special EYE TOLD YOU SO feature from tech correspondent Emma Woollacott on the NHS computer catastrophe. Free 'I Love Jeremy Hunt' sticker (totally pristine, never before used) with every download!2017-05-1929 min
privateeyenewsPage 94 The Private Eye Podcast - Housing and Secret IdentitiesEpisode 25
Eye housing editor Rachael Claye discusses the government's recent Homelessness bill and the state of the housing market, PLUS Ian Hislop on why the Eye's writers trade under assumed names. Free nom de plume with every download!2017-04-1332 min
privateeyenewsPage 94 The Private Eye Podcast - Soldiers And TrumpEpisode 24
Page 94 returns for a new series! This week: the Eye's military correspondent Paul Vickers reveals the tangled web between the army and private firms, and diarist Craig Brown discusses the best way of channelling the 45th President of the USA. Free Type 45 Destroyer with every download!2017-03-2929 min
privateeyenewsPage 94 The Private Eye Podcast - Courtrooms, Councillors and Completely Bogus NewsEpisode 23
Courtrooms, Councillors and Completely Bogus News - a triple bill!
With Ian Hislop, Jane Mackenzie and Tim Minogue. Free Satire Detector with every download!2016-12-0427 min
privateeyenewsPage 94 The Private Eye Podcast - 30 Glorious YearsEpisode 22
A second special inter-series episode! Ian Hislop has been editor for thirty years. To celebrate, Eye hack Adam Macqueen interviews editor Ian Hislop about his three decades on the Editorial Throne. Free "That's Enough. Ed." sticker with every download!2016-10-1432 min
privateeyenewsPage 94 The Private Eye Podcast - Revolving DoorsEpisode 21
A special bonus in-between-series episode! This week, the revolving door between government and big business, with the authors of our special report Richard Brooks and Solomon Hughes. Free £300,000-a-year job at a FTSE 100 firm with every download!2016-09-1922 min
privateeyenewsPage 94 The Private Eye Podcast - DeepcutEpisode 20
A special report with the Eye's Heather Mills, discussing the murky history of the Deepcut barracks and the tragedies that resulted from Army mismanagement. Last in the series - free 'Bring Back Page 94' petition slip with every download...2016-06-1719 min
privateeyenewsPage 94 The Private Eye Podcast - Pubs And LunchesEPISODE 19: PUBS AND LUNCHES
Tim Minogue and Sarah Shannon reveal why so many pubs are closing, and Adam Macqueen and Maisie Glazebrook spill the beans on the Eye's notorious fortnightly lunches. Free pint of Gnome '61 with every download!2016-05-2724 min
privateeyenewsPage 94 The Private Eye Podcast - PF-EYEEpisode 18
The Eye's investigative team spill the beans on the why the Private Finance Initiative, the ingenious government money-machine which makes whole schools fall over. Plus an interview with the gag-writing team of Tom Jamieson and Nev Fountain, the men behind the Angry Baby and the Letter From Corbyn. Free ruinous 30-year contract with every download!2016-05-1327 min
privateeyenewsPage 94 The Private Eye Podcast - Books And BansEpisode 17
Francis Wheen and Adam Macqueen give the latest on the least-effective celebrity injunction of all time, PLUS Jane Mackenzie on 21st-century libraries. Free three-letter judicial acronym with every download!2016-04-2928 min
privateeyenewsPage 94 The Private Eye Podcast - PanamaniaEpisode 16
Richard Brooks and Solomon Hughes give the Private Eye take on the Panama Papers and offshore tax havens, PLUS Nick Newman on the art of Dave Snooty And His Pals. Free Definitely Legal And Perfectly Above Board British Virgin Island Company with every download!2016-04-1526 min
privateeyenewsPage 94 The Private Eye Podcast - The Eye OnlineEpisode 15
SERIES THREE BEGINS! This week, the Eye Online: Ian Hislop and Adam Macqueen discuss the Eye's digital strategy (spoiler alert: there isn't one) and the ways newspapers are surviving the digital age. Plus an interview with Ed Barrett, author of From The Message Boards. Free Independent website with every download!2016-04-0130 min
privateeyenewsPage 94 The Private Eye Podcast - Care and CriticismEpisode 14
A special feature on the two kinds of care - health and social - and the yawning gap between them, with the Eye's medical correspondent MD and In The Back's Heather Mills. PLUS, an exclusive (and very gossipy) chat with the man behind the literary pages, DJ Taylor. Free biting critique with every download!2015-12-1429 min
privateeyenewsPage 94 The Private Eye Podcast - The Architect and the LawyerEpisode 13
Exciting interviews about collapsing buildings with architecture correspondent Piloti (AKA Gavin Stamp) and collapsing lawsuits with the Eye's in-house lawyer. Free editor (barring contempt of court) with every download!2015-11-3028 min
privateeyenewsPage 94 The Private Eye Podcast - Freedom of InformationEpisode 12
Freedom Of Information SPECIAL EPISODE, interviewing the Eye's crack investigative squad. Free-Dom of Information with every download!2015-11-1627 min
privateeyenewsPage 94 The Private Eye Podcast - Back To The 80sEpisode 11
Adam Macqueen and Francis Wheen (aka 'Private Eye's Google') on the stories which have been bubbling away for 30 years, and David Ziggy Greene on the art of drawing the news as it happens. Free flexidisc (ask your parents) with every download!2015-11-0225 min
privateeyenewsPage 94 The Private Eye Podcast - Big Business and Tax HavensEpisode 10
SERIES TWO BEGINS! This week, an investigative double bill: Solomon Hughes on big business at party conferences, and Richard Brooks and Christian Eriksson on the Eye's all-new map of British property owned from tax havens. Free Cayman Island with every download!2015-10-1534 min
The World TonightPrivate Eye on Jeremy Corbyn#r4theworldtonight @PrivateEyeNews on @jeremyCorbyn Satirising the Left down the years2015-09-2105 min
privateeyenewsPage 94 The Private Eye Podcast - Honours and LettersEpisode 9
For episode 9.4, a triple letter score: Letters after one's name (Solomon Hughes on the honours system), Letters From Berlin (Anthony Goldman, Private Eye's global bureau chief) and Letters From The Great British Public (Tristan Davies, Chief Subeditor). Final episode of Series 1 - free hanky with every download!2015-07-1431 min
privateeyenewsPage 94 The Private Eye Podcast - Michael Heath and Tax HavensEpisode 8
An interview with Michael Heath, who's been drawing funny things for sixty years and a surprising look at exactly who owns all the land in Britain. Free Tax Haven getaway with every download!2015-06-1823 min
privateeyenewsPage 94 The Private Eye Podcast - Cartooning and Phone HackingEpisode 7
A look at the magic of the cartooning process, plus Adam Macqueen with an indispensable guide to phone hacking at the Mirror. Free Alan Yentob voicemail with every download!2015-06-0531 min
privateeyenewsPage 94 The Private Eye Podcast - Magazine Covers and Rotten BoroughsEpisode 6
Ian Hislop on the fine art of the magazine's covers and Tim Minogue on the murky world of Rotten Boroughs. Free 'I am outraged, please cancel my subscription' form with every download!2015-05-2229 min
privateeyenewsPage 94 The Private Eye Podcast - An Election Triple BillEpisode 5
An election TRIPLE BILL: Ian Hislop on Prime Ministerial Parodies, Adam Macqueen on locking up journalists, and Phil Hammond on the Conservative and Labour pledges about the NHS. Free Sun reporter with every download!2015-05-0641 min
privateeyenewsPage 94 The Private Eye Podcast - Craig Brown and Heather MillsEpisode 4
Craig Brown on the art of parody and investigative hack Heather Mills on murky goings-on in the village of Botton. Free manifesto pledge with every download! (Warning: manifesto pledge is an aspiration only and not a promise. Price of podcast may be raised to £9000).2015-04-1721 min
privateeyenewsPage 94 The Private Eye Podcast - Higher Education and Piers MorganEpisode 3
Dealing with two enormous, intractable, but very different problems: higher education and Piers Morgan. Free extended metaphor with every download.2015-04-0217 min
privateeyenewsPage 94 The Private Eye Podcast - Wheen, Hislop and NewmanEpisode 2
Francis Wheen on everything you ever wanted to know about HSBC and the Telegraph, plus an interview with Ian Hislop and Nick Newman about the Eye's own Gnome Mart. Free ant with every download! (Please note: ant may be lost in transit)2015-03-1920 min
privateeyenewsPage 94 The Private Eye Podcast - Martin Honeysett and Paul Foot AwardsEpisode 1
Behind the scenes at the Paul Foot Awards… and cartoonist Martin Honeysett remembered2015-03-0334 min