The Skewer

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The Skewer episodes

October 02, 2024 Episode 4
The week’s biggest stories like you’ve never heard them before. The news remixed into a satirical comedy concept album.
This week - Jo-Keir: Folie à Deux, Netanyahu's Way, and Whole Lotta Rosie (Duffield).
Jon Holmes presents the multi-award-winning The Skewer. Headphones on.
Producer: Jon Holmes
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
15 min
September 25, 2024 Episode 3
The week’s biggest stories like you’ve never heard them before. The news remixed into a satirical concept album. This week, Labour Sausage Party and The Little Shop of Harrods.
Jon Holmes presents the multi-award-winning The Skewer. Headphones on.
Producer: Jon Holmes
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
15 min
September 18, 2024 Episode 2
The week’s biggest stories like you’ve never heard them before. The news remixed into a satirical comedy concept album. This week: Strictly Come Bullying, Fifi and the Flowertories, and the playing of the Blame Game.
Jon Holmes presents the multi-award-winning The Skewer. Headphones on.
Producer: Jon Holmes
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
15 min
September 11, 2024 Episode 1
The week’s biggest stories like you’ve never heard them before. The news, remixed as a satirical comedy concept album. This week - Deadpool and Starmerine, Black Holes, Americans eat cats, and Gathering Winter Fuel Bills.
Jon Holmes presents the multi-award winning The Skewer. Headphones on.
Producer: Jon Holmes
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
15 min
July 11, 2024 The Skewer: The 2024 Election
Fresh from a BAFTA nomination, the multi-award winning The Skewer burrows its way into the 2024 General Election, rounding it all up like a satirical sheepdog and cutting through all the noise.
Producer: Jon Holmes
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
29 min
April 03, 2024 Episode 8
The week’s biggest stories like you’ve never heard them before. The news, remixed as a satirical comedy concept album.
Jon Holmes presents the multi-award-winning The Skewer. Headphones on. This week - Spirit of Dark Thames Water, the Cruci-Hate Crime-Bill, and if you want blood, we've got it.
Producer: Jon Holmes
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
15 min
March 27, 2024 Episode 7
The week’s biggest stories like you’ve never heard them before. The news, remixed as a satirical comedy concept album. This episode - We're Going On A Bear-emy Hunt, Peppa Pig Goes To Gaza, and fun with flags.
Jon Holmes presents the multi-award winning The Skewer. Headphones on.
Producer: Jon Holmes
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
15 min
March 20, 2024 Episode 6
The week’s biggest stories like you’ve never heard them before. The news, remixed as a satirical comedy concept album. This week - Gove-O-Cop, Foghorn Rishi-horn, and Strange Women Lying In Ponds.
Jon Holmes presents the multi-award winning, Bafta nominated The Skewer. Headphones on.
Producer: Jon Holmes
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
15 min
March 14, 2024 Episode 5
The week’s biggest stories like you’ve never heard them before. The news, remixed as a satirical comedy concept album. This week - Slide to the Right, Cars-tian Horner, and That Photo of Kate.
Jon Holmes presents the multi-award winning The Skewer. Headphones on.
Producer: Jon Holmes
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
15 min
March 06, 2024 Episode 4
Jon Holmes presents the multi-award winning The Skewer. The week’s biggest stories like you’ve never heard them before. The news, remixed as a satirical comedy concept album. Headphones recommended.
This week - The Budget Tale of Mr Jeremy, The Cat in the Hat Returns, and Rishi Sunak Speaks to The Nation.
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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