Private Eye books on Christmas themes from regular contributors. Patrick Marnham’s ‘’The Private Eye Story’’ (1982) was the first major attempt to tell the history of the magazine. A fiftieth anniversary biography by Adam Macqueen was published in 2011. Anthologies of the unintentionally humorous newspaper cuttings which have formed a regular part of the magazine since its earliest days. A mixture of revised reprints of material featured in the magazine, retrospectives and entirely new material. Specials were later abandoned in favour of occasional ‘pull out sections’ in the main magazine. Private Eye books "Private Eye", the fortnightly British satirical magazine, has published various
Big Ron Manager Big Ron Manager Big Ron Manager is a television documentary series based on Ron Atkinson's efforts as a troubleshooter at the English football club Peterborough United, at the time playing in Football League Two. The series was screened on Sky TV in 2006. Originally, the show was going to feature Swindon Town and Sky spent around four weeks filming there before being asked to leave by the Swindon management. Peterborough United received a fee of around £100,000 from Sky TV for access to the changing rooms and for Ron Atkinson to assist the rookie manager Steve Bleasdale. Bleasdale was unhappy