Overview
- Presenter Charlie Stayt apologised to viewers after a sound failure cut out co-host Emma Vardy during Saturday’s live broadcast.
- Stayt told viewers, "Our apologies. There are just one or two problems with our sound for a moment there," before continuing the segment.
- The programme was reporting on Lindsay and Craig Foreman from East Sussex, detained in Iran since January and charged with espionage, which they deny.
- Relatives say the couple are held separately in Tehran’s Evin prison in overcrowded, unsanitary conditions with vermin, as described by Lindsay’s son Joe Bennett.
- Family report the pair undertook a hunger strike last month and now receive near-daily phone calls, while the Foreign Office says it is directly raising the case with Iranian authorities.