The Skewer

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The Skewer episodes

May 21, 2025 Liability Lineker and The Eurovision Fishing Rights Contest.
Fresh from winning a Best Comedy Award at the Radio Academy Awards for the sixth time, Jon Holmes remixes the news into a satirical current affairs comedy concept album. News meets popular culture in a satirical mash up.
This week - Liability Lineker and The Eurovision Fishing Rights Contest.
Producer: Jon Holmes
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
15 min
May 14, 2025 Starmer Turns Right, and a Mission from God.
Jon Holmes remixes the news into a satirical current affairs comedy concept album. News meets popular culture in a multi-award-winning satirical mash up.
This week - we're on a Mission From God, Starmer Turns Right, and the Tragedy of Donald Caesar.
Producer: Jon Holmes
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
15 min
May 07, 2025 Alca-Trump Prison, Reform the Children, and Nosfaragetu
Jon Holmes remixes the news into a current affairs comedy concept album. News meets popular culture in a multi-award-winning satirical mash up.
This week - we re-open Alca-Trump Prison, Reform the children, and embrace the coming of the Prince of Darkness Nosfaragetu.
Producer: Jon Holmes
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
15 min
April 30, 2025 Elections, 100 Days of Trump, and Trans Labyrinth
Jon Holmes remixes the news into a current affairs comedy concept album. News meets popular culture in a multi-award-winning satirical mash up. This week - Local Elections, 100 Days of Trump, and Trans Labyrinth.
Producer: Jon Holmes
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
15 min
April 23, 2025 Gender, Easter, and The Dead Pope's Society.
Jon Holmes remixes the news into a current affairs comedy concept album. News meets popular culture in a multi-award-winning satirical mash up. This week we go into the wrong toilets, Donald Trump enters Last One Laughing, and we join the dead Pope's society.
Producer: Jon Holmes
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
15 min
April 17, 2025 Man of Steel and Art of the Deal
Jon Holmes remixes the news into a current affairs comedy concept album. News meets popular culture in a multi-award-winning mash up. This week: Charlie XCX is bumpin' that with Donald Trump, Minecraft Movie vs Russia, and Starmer: Man of Steel.
Producer: Jon Holmes
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
15 min
October 30, 2024 Episode 8
The week’s biggest stories like you’ve never heard them before. Jon Holmes remixes the news into a satirical concept album.
This week - Budget, Bluffs, and Fight Club.
Producer: Jon Holmes
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
16 min
October 23, 2024 Episode 7
The week’s biggest stories like you’ve never heard them before. Jon Holmes remixes the news into a satirical concept album.
This week - Hamas and the Argonauts, Puff Daddy The Magic Dragon, and As You Wish, Wesley Streeting.
Producer: Jon Holmes
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
16 min
October 16, 2024 Episode 6
The week’s biggest stories like you’ve never heard them before. Jon Holmes remixes the news into a satirical concept album. This week: The Economy in Wonderland, Choppy Days, and The Invasion of the European Commission on Human Rights.
Producer: Jon Holmes
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
16 min
October 09, 2024 Episode 5
The week’s biggest stories like you’ve never heard them before. The news remixed into a satirical comedy concept album.
Jon Holmes presents the multi-award-winning The Skewer. This week - Sooty and Sue Gray, and Iranian Avengers Assemble.
Headphones on.
Producer: Jon Holmes
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
15 min

About The Skewer

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A twisted comedy treat. Jon Holmes brings you the week's biggest stories like you've never heard them before. The news remixed. Welcome to The Skewer. Headphones on.

The multi-award winning, 'dizzying, dazzling, haunting and moving' satirical comedy returns to twist itself into these turbulent times.

With contributions from brand new and diverse audio talent, The Skewer is the sound the abyss makes as it stares back at you through your ears.

'A kind of concept album made of music and news. There's simply nothing else like it.'

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