Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

Ian Hislop and Private Eye magazine venture into the world of audio with Page 94, hosted by Andrew Hunter Murray. Available from Private Eye at www.private-eye.co.uk as well as on Apple, YouTube, Spotify, Amazon and many other audio platforms.

Episodes

September 15, 2026 48 mins
The team and Richard Brooks discuss Reform UK's new sugar-daddy, the likelihood of AI wiping out the world (just 10%) and the Men In Black coming to a port near you. 
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Guest Saba Salman discusses the Green Party's latest appearance in Private Eye, Helen Lewis on Donald Trump's completely professional relationship with an attractive young aide, and Adam Macqueen on the BBC's doomed future without Amol Rajan. 
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August 25, 2026 41 mins

As the summer draws to a close, Ian, Helen, Adam and Andy discuss the best books about journalism and writing ever, er, written, covering everything from Vesuvius to Rwanda to Elton John.

Further Reading
The Faber Book of Reportage, edited by Professor John Carey
Tickle The Public - 100 Years of the Popular Press by Matthew Engel
We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Phillip Gou...

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August 11, 2026 38 mins
Summer special! The team discuss the Conservatives’ new policy on convicted Neo-Nazis (pro), the AI data centres hoovering up power and water, and the extraordinary story of Professor Jason Arday.
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July 28, 2026 42 mins
The team discuss how Andy Burnham’s social media is annoying the ‘lobby’; the mad debate over North Sea drilling continues; and how to make the new PM funny. 
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July 14, 2026 50 mins
The team (with guest Jane Mackenzie) discuss Nigel Farage's by-election gamble, the latest military procurement disasters, and the lowdown on Prince Harry’s trial against the Mail. 
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June 30, 2026 45 mins
Ian, Helen, Andy and Richard Brooks discuss Andy Burnham’s vision for Britain (AKA Even Greater Manchester), the non-existent ban on air-conditioning, and a new book on Emperor Trump. 
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June 24, 2026 40 mins
The Private Eye team, minus Andy but plus Matt Muir, wave a sad farewell to Keir Starmer and prepare themselves for Andy Burnham and the Burnaissance. Also: is Nigel Farage running out of steam?
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June 16, 2026 44 mins
The team (plus guest Sarah Shannon) catch up on the latest White House cage fight, on the World Cup, on the USA and Iran's actual fight, and on the British fight for the right between Reform and Restore.
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June 2, 2026 41 mins
The team record a special episode from the Hay Festival. Featuring Tony Blair, Keir Starmer, Donald Trump, Nigel Farage, Nicola Sturgeon, and all your other - favourite? - characters from the news. 
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June 1, 2026 6 mins
You've heard the stories. You've admired the piles of paper in the Eye office (video viewers only). And now it's time to learn which brilliant story has won this year's Paul Foot Award! 
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Chloe Hadjimatheou of the Observer looked into a beloved, million-selling bestseller, The Salt Path, and found the book arguably fit the 'fiction' shelves better. 
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Adam Bychawski reported on how people who've been wrongly imprisoned - sometimes for many years - are still not being compensated even after they've overturned their convictions, thank to a 2014 change in the law.  
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May 27, 2026 12 mins
Peter Geoghegan and Khadija Sharife uncovered how Labour Together - the think-tank which helped make Keir Starmer PM - had hired a PR firm to try and discredit journalists asking them questions about their funding.
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May 26, 2026 15 mins
Lindsay Bruce of the Aberdeen Press and Journal fought for justice for homeowners facing ruin after they learned their homes were full of dodgy concrete. Her campaign eventually led to a complete surrender by local authorities and compensation for affected homeowners. 
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May 25, 2026 11 mins
Daniel Timms of the Sheffield Tribune tells the story of the solicitor who used legal loopholes to extract sums of £25,000 from Yorkshire homeowners. Part of Private Eye's Paul Foot Award 2026 shortlist series. 
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May 24, 2026 13 mins
Joe Duggan of the i paper tells the story of the workers falling ill and dying with silicosis after cutting fashionable kitchen counters without adequate protection. Part of Private Eye's Paul Foot Award 2026 shortlist series. 
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May 19, 2026 48 mins
The team discuss the Labour leadership, play Helen’s new quiz ‘Faction or Fiction’, and Saba Salman joins for a post-pre-mortem on the local elections.
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May 6, 2026 44 mins
The team discuss antisemitism across the British political scene, Nigel Farage's £5million bung, and one of the (few) bits of Parliament that genuinely works. 
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April 21, 2026 41 mins
Who wants to give Keir Starmer a kicking? Basically everyone. Rotten Boroughs editor Saba Salman joins Helen Lewis, Ian Hislop and Adam Macqueen to explain how British politics has fractured and how May's elections will be a total bunfight. Plus: how did Elizabeth II become Brenda, and what nicknames for Harry and Meghan never took off?
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