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Friday, 2 November, 2001, 12:49 GMT
Private Eye celebrates 40 years
Hislop: "I thought we would never make it"
The British satirical magazine Private Eye celebrated its 40th anniversary on Friday.
The weekly hit the streets with a colour cover and a commemorative CD featuring some of its most famous contributors. The magazine was founded in 1961 by a small team of journalists and humourists, including Peter Cook, Willie Rushton and Richard Ingrams. Its readership has since grown to more than 600,000. But the magazine has often been hit by expensive libel actions for its criticisms of politicians and celebrities. Legal actions Last year editor Ian Hislop joked about reaching the magazine's 1,000th issue: "With all the libel suits against us I thought we would never make it." Ian Hislop, who is a team captain on BBC One's satirical show Have I Got News For You, took over from Richard Ingrams as editor in 1986.
Ms Sutcliffe was awarded one of British legal history's largest libel payouts after an action against Private Eye - �600,000, later reduced to �60,000. The magazine was also instrumental in uncovering the Bristol baby heart scandal, when contributor Dr Phil Hammond wrote in 1992 about unusually high mortality rates among babies undergoing heart surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary. To celebrate the anniversary, the magazine has published a history of its best cartoons from the past four decades in a series of supplements. |
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