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The Skewer episodes

February 28, 2024 Episode 3
The week’s biggest stories like you’ve never heard them before. The news, remixed as a satirical comedy concept album.
This week - Lee Anderson falls into The Matrix, Speaker Lindsay Hoyle gets sent to Slough House (Slow Hoyleses?), Liz Truss the Doomslayer, and None of the Above.
Jon Holmes presents the multi-award winning The Skewer. Headphones on.
Producer: Jon Holmes
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
16 min
February 21, 2024 Episode 2
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 - Monty Putin’s Flying Russians, Another Policy Bites The Dust, and Drake vs Prince Harry.
Producer: Jon Holmes
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
15 min
February 14, 2024 Episode 1
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:
Blake's 7 help the Sub-Postmasters, The Asylum Seeker of Dibley, Rebel Without A Policy, and a nod to Steve Wright.
Producer: Jon Holmes
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
15 min
November 30, 2023 Episode 8
Fresh from winning Gold for Best Comedy at the British Podcast Awards (and Highly Commended as Podcast of the Year), Jon Holmes's comedy current affairs concept album returns for its 10th series to remix the news into satirical shapes.
This week: Oily Fools and Horses, Cleverly's Sh*thole, Where The Wilders things Are, and King Charles sees dead people (and takes their money).
Creator / Producer: Jon Holmes
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
16 min
November 22, 2023 Episode 7
Fresh from winning Gold for Best Comedy at the British Podcast Awards (and Highly Commended as Podcast of the Year), Jon Holmes's comedy current affairs concept album returns for its 10th series to remix the news into satirical shapes.
This week - Napoleon Braverman, the Time Team help the Israeli Defence Force dig for tunnels, and the BBC Autumnwatch team set up their cameras for Jeremy Hunt's statement.
Creator / Producer: Jon Holmes
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
15 min
November 16, 2023 Episode 6
Fresh from winning Gold for Best Comedy at the British Podcast Awards (and Highly Commended as Podcast of the Year), Jon Holmes's comedy current affairs concept album returns for its 10th series to remix the news into satirical shapes.
This week - Nadine vs The Evil Dead, It’s Always Sunny in Philadeph-kier, and The Return of David Cameron.
Creator / Producer: Jon Holmes
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
This week – among much more:
Homer Simpson takes charge of the Cabinet cuts
Nadine Dorries’s book is bound in human flesh from The Evil Dead
I’m A Celeb contestant Nigel Farage meets the casts of Disney’s The Jungle Book
Hagrid off of Harry Potter's dog falls foul of the Dangerous Dogs Act
Kier Starmer is Always Sunny In Philadelphia
Carol Vorderman takes to Countdown to vent her frustration at being axed from the BBC
15 min
November 09, 2023 Episode 5
Fresh from winning Gold for Best Comedy at the British Podcast Awards (and Highly Commended as Podcast of the Year), Jon Holmes's comedy current affairs concept album returns for its 10th series to remix the news into satirical shapes.
This week - the HaM&S Christmas advert, Matt Hancock: Infinity War, and Ray Mears goes camping with Suella Braverman.
Creator / Producer: Jon Holmes
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
CREDITS
Jon Holmes
Katie Sayer
Darren Phillips
Phil Lindsey
David Riffkin
Cooper Mawhinny Sweryt
Dave Wol
and
Tony Churnside
ADDITIONAL
Ali Panting
Anna Martin
Helen Brooks
Alice Gregg
Mike Battle
Paul Kearney
Gareth Ceredig
Adrian Fisk
Kevin Smith
John Weston
Beechar & Pullar
Arfie Mansfield
David Kidder
John Upton
Duncan Ladkin
On this week’s The Skewer:
Matt Hancock (Thancock?) channels Thanos as he joins Avengers: Infinity War to decide who will live or die.
Post their Christmas ad controversy, M&S back the other side. This isn’t just any advert, it’s a HamM&S advert
As AI becomes a ‘cookbook for weapons’, Delia Smith meets Oppenheimer
Ray Mears takes issue with Suella’s anti-tent homelessness strategy
The T800 model Terminator interviews Elon Musk about AI
The South Park kids advise Israel on good old-fashioned small town justice
In The Adventures of Blinken Bill, the friendly cartoon Koala Blinky Bill helps US diplomat Anthony Blinken negotiate a ceasefire.
and
Donald Trump sees the Trailer Park Boys in court.
15 min
November 02, 2023 Episode 4
Fresh from winning Gold for Best Comedy at the British Podcast Awards (and Highly Commended as Podcast of the Year), Jon Holmes' comedy current affairs concept album returns for its 10th series to remix the news into satirical shapes.
This week - The Ghost of Cummings Past, high level governmental swearing, and God meets Guns.
Creator / Producer: Jon Holmes.
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
15 min
October 26, 2023 Episode 3
Fresh from winning Gold for Best Comedy at the British Podcast Awards (and Highly Commended as Podcast of the Year), Jon Holmes's comedy current affairs concept album returns for its 10th series to remix the news into satirical shapes. This week - 'Umble Starmer, Planet Earth III presents All Out War, and The Fall of The House of Sunak.'
The Skewer: Three Twisted Years, a brand new TV version of The Skewer looking back over the last three years is now available on BBC iPlayer.
Creator / Producer: Jon Holmes.
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
16 min
October 19, 2023 Episode 2
Jon Holmes's comedy current affairs concept album remixes news into award-winning satirical shapes. This week - An Arse on a Plate, Corbyn Neutral, and Peter Bone-y M.
Created and produced by Jon Holmes
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
15 min

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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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