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Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

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Private Eye’s scandals, argued at speed.

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Page 94 is the Private Eye podcast in conversation form: sharp, fast, and allergic to official fog. Its episodes move from Westminster scandals and royal litigation to social media, surveillance, church politics, Iran, pensions, and press accountability.

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About Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

Page 94 is the Private Eye podcast as a working conversation rather than a polished bulletin. It takes the magazine’s appetite for scandal, law, bureaucracy, hypocrisy, and odd institutional behaviour, then lets a sharp studio panel kick the evidence around in public. The pace is brisk. A typical episode starts with a news peg, but the useful part is what follows: the hidden history, the procedural trapdoor, the legal risk, the money trail, or the awkward fact that makes the official version wobble. Prince Harry’s case against The Daily Mail becomes a discussion of phone-hacking witnesses, book payments, and names from earlier press scandals. Tulip Sadiq’s political trouble becomes a story about family links, property, Bangladesh, and anti-corruption optics. A segment on Andrew Milne turns clerical errors and threatened litigation into a portrait of legal process used as leverage. The show is funny, but the jokes usually sharpen the reporting. It is fond of absurd phrasing because public life often earns it. There is also a strong memory in the room. Old Private Eye investigations, from Teesside to the Post Office scandal, PFI, probation, conservation, military housing, medicine, and Deepcut, are treated as living files rather than archive curiosities. Current affairs are not isolated events here; they are continuations. The panel can move from social media fatigue and Ofcom data to pensions and the triple lock, then from Donald Trump’s tariffs to oil markets, Iran, Dubai, and sanctions. Church leadership, police surveillance, journalists, MI5, GCHQ, the BBC, and the National Union of Journalists all sit comfortably in the same argumentative ecosystem. That breadth is the point. Page 94 is built for listeners who want satire with receipts, not a rant with a theme tune. It has little patience for public figures explaining failures badly, and even less for systems that protect reputation before truth. The show’s edge comes from specificity: names, courts, institutions, and the consequences of small decisions made by powerful people. It is irreverent, but not vague. It is gossipy, but the gossip keeps leading back to structure. For anyone curious about how Private Eye thinks, Page 94 is the magazine’s habits of mind made audible.

Made for: For listeners who follow UK politics, media, law, and institutional scandal, and prefer sharp explanation over neutral-sounding summary. It also suits Private Eye readers who want the magazine’s investigations carried into live conversation.

What sets it apart: The show pairs satirical bite with the memory and specificity of long-running investigative journalism. It can treat a joke, a court filing, a regulator’s report, and an old scandal as parts of the same story.

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Based on 5 episodes we listened to · August 2026

Page 94 brings Private Eye's sharp eye to politics, media and institutions, with jokes that usually lead back to evidence.

Page 94 turns Private Eye's political and institutional habits into a loose studio conversation. Andrew Hunter-Murray is joined by voices including Helen Lewis, Adam McQueen, Ian Hislop, Richard Brooks, Jane McKenzie and Matt Muir, and the show moves easily through Westminster,…

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Episodes

  1. 1

    Meta's Not Better

    Hidden gem

    Page 94 hosts Andrew Hunter-Murray, Helen Lewis, Adam McQueen, and Matt Muir open with Ofcom data showing fewer than half of UK social media users now actively post, framing a shift from participatory to passive-consumption platforms driven by TikTok's algorithmic model.

    Apr 8, 2026·54m·3 clips
  2. 2

    Mad King Donald

    Hidden gem

    Page 94 hosts Andrew Hunter-Murray, Helen Lewis, Ian Hislop, and Richard Brooks analyse the US-Iran war four weeks in, finding no contingency planning for a Strait of Hormuz closure and no one in the Trump White House capable of saying no.

    Mar 24, 2026·42m·2 clips
  3. 3

    War On Iran: Aya-Tollad You So

    The Page 94 podcast panel discusses the confusion and contradictions surrounding US and Israeli actions towards Iran following the death of Ali Khamenei.

    Mar 10, 2026·50m
  4. 4

    A Tale Of Two Andrews

    Private Eye podcast discusses a solicitor named Andrew Milne who uses legal technicalities to extract money from people.

    Feb 24, 2026·35m
  5. 5

    Cash Harry

    Adam McQueen updates on the Prince Harry v.

    Feb 17, 2026·5m
  6. 6

    Mandy Lifeboats

    Feb 10, 2026·44m
  7. 7

    Crash And Burnham

    Jan 27, 2026·45m
  8. 8

    On Thin ICE

    Jan 13, 2026·47m
  9. 9

    Quizmas Crackers

    Dec 28, 2025·36m
  10. 10

    Private Eye - Year In Review 2025

    Dec 16, 2025·45m
  11. 11

    Unwise Councils

    Dec 2, 2025·45m
  12. 12

    Shakedowns, Coups and COP 30

    Nov 18, 2025·46m
  13. 13

    The Grand Old Duke Of Yuck

    Nov 4, 2025·45m
  14. 14

    Live From Cheltenham

    Oct 20, 2025·45m
  15. 15

    Bishops, buggers and health freaks

    Hidden gem

    Page 94 covers four main stories: the appointment of Sarah Mullally as the first female Archbishop of Canterbury after 1,428 years, including the £5 million fraud committed by her predecessor's operations chief Martin Sargent at the Diocese of London; the McCulloch Review confirming that the Police Service of Northern Ireland used traffic cameras and phone cross-referencing to surveil journalists Barry McCafferty and Trevor Binney for investigating police collusion in the 1994 Loughinisland massacre; the ITV drama The Hack and the Daniel Morgan murder case, including findings that detective Dave Cook coached witnesses in a way a court ruled constituted malicious prosecution; and an interview with Helen Lewis on RFK Jr.'s MAHA agenda at HHS, including his restrictions on childhood vaccines and the return of measles deaths to the US for the first time in a decade.

    Oct 7, 2025·43m·3 clips
  16. 16

    It's Your Party, Cry If You Want To

    Sep 23, 2025·43m
  17. 17

    Re-shuffle, Re-signation, Re-form

    Sep 9, 2025·40m
  18. 18

    The Definitive Guide To Private Eye

    Host Andrew Hunter-Murray, along with Private Eye contributors Helen Lewis and Adam McQueen, presents a 150th-episode guide to what Page 94 and Private Eye magazine are — their history, structure, and recurring features.

    Aug 28, 2025·37m·2 clips
  19. 19

    Scott Free

    Aug 12, 2025·45m
  20. 20

    Protests, Placards, Palestine and Private Eye

    Jul 29, 2025·45m
  21. 21

    The Epstein Fails

    Jul 15, 2025·48m
  22. 22

    Labour, Heatwaves and Glasto

    Jul 1, 2025·50m
  23. 23

    Summer Fun Special

    Jun 17, 2025·48m
  24. 24

    Leftie Lawyers and Rightwing Roughnecks

    Jun 4, 2025·42m
  25. 25

    Tales From The Telegraph, Grok and Gullies

    May 21, 2025·38m
  26. 26

    Paul Foot Award: The Winner

    May 20, 2025·18m
  27. 27

    Day 6: The Big Help

    May 19, 2025·14m
  28. 28

    Day 5: The Gaza Student Protest Crackdown

    May 18, 2025·11m
  29. 29

    Day 4: Lime Bikes and Broken Legs

    May 17, 2025·14m
  30. 30

    Day 3: Out Of Sight: Missing People

    May 16, 2025·12m
  31. 31

    Day 2: The Carer's Allowance Scandal

    May 15, 2025·14m
  32. 32

    Mini-Series: The Paul Foot Award 2025

    May 14, 2025·17m
  33. 33

    Page 94 LIVE

    May 6, 2025·40m
  34. 34

    Beg, Borrow and Steel

    Apr 23, 2025·47m
  35. 35

    How Trump Ate The British Media

    Apr 8, 2025·45m
  36. 36

    Robo Hacks & Dodgy Degrees

    Mar 26, 2025·28m
  37. 37

    Reform, The Beeb and The House Of Saud

    Mar 11, 2025·44m
  38. 38

    Mega MAGA

    Feb 25, 2025·50m
  39. 39

    Planes, Trains and Automobiles

    Feb 12, 2025·42m
  40. 40

    Pod Baby Pod

    Jan 29, 2025·48m
  41. 41

    Tulip Mania

    The Page 94 podcast discusses the resignation of UK anti-corruption minister Tulip Sadiq amid allegations of family-linked corruption in Bangladesh.

    Jan 14, 2025·37m
  42. 42

    Merry Quizmas

    The hosts of Page 94 compete in a post-Christmas news quiz with themed rounds on politics and Private Eye.

    Dec 30, 2024·27m
  43. 43

    Private Eye - The Year In Review 2024

    Hidden gem

    Page 94 presents a live recording from the Shaftesbury Theatre in London's West End, helmed by Ian Heslop with performers including Harry Enfield, Lewis MacLeod, and Jan Ravens, presenting satirical highlights from Private Eye's 2024 annual.

    Dec 18, 2024·42m·2 clips
  44. 44

    Tales From The Crypto

    Dec 11, 2024·36m
  45. 45

    Inheriting the earth

    Nov 27, 2024·35m
  46. 46

    MAGA, monarchy and Welby’s woes

    Nov 12, 2024·41m
  47. 47

    US Election Special

    Oct 30, 2024·42m
  48. 48

    Court Short

    Oct 16, 2024·35m
  49. 49

    Party Games

    Oct 2, 2024·41m
  50. 50

    Labour's Freebies and The End of the Peers Show

    The Page 94 podcast discusses the ongoing scandal of Labour leader Keir Starmer accepting freebies, despite his party's previous criticism of Conservative corruption.

    Sep 18, 2024·49m