The Skewer

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The Skewer episodes

October 12, 2023 Episode 1
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 - Labour Possessed, Oh Mr Sunak, and The Lorax fails to save a tree.
Creator / Producer: Jon Holmes.
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
15 min
August 10, 2023 Episode 8
Jon Holmes's comedy current affairs concept album remixes news into award-winning satirical shapes. This week: This week: Fawlty Migrants, You've Been Droned, and Horror of Mogg.
Created and produced by Jon Holmes
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
15 min
August 03, 2023 Episode 7
Jon Holmes's comedy current affairs concept album remixes news into award-winning satirical shapes. This week - Bad Blood, Trump's Troubles, and Jordan Henderson of Arabia.
Created and produced by Jon Holmes
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
15 min
July 27, 2023 Episode 6
Jon Holmes's comedy current affairs concept album remixes news into award-winning satirical shapes. This week - Hot Greece, Making Banking Plans For Nigel, and Oppenheimer meets Ed Davey's cardboard cannon.
Created and produced by Jon Holmes
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
15 min
July 20, 2023 Episode 5
Jon Holmes's comedy current affairs concept album remixes news into award-winning satirical shapes. This week - The Coming of Cerberus, The Racist Adventures of Portland Bill, and The Spirit of Local Radio.
Producer: Jon Holmes
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
15 min
July 13, 2023 Episode 4
Jon Holmes's comedy current affairs concept album remixes news into award-winning satirical shapes. This week - He Who Shall Not Be Named (at the time of writing), George Osbourne's Big Day, Do Ray Me Kier, and Taliban Barbie.
Created and produced by Jon Holmes
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
15 min
July 06, 2023 Episode 3
Jon Holmes's comedy current affairs concept album remixes the news into award-winning satirical shapes. This week- Jacob Rees Mogwai, My Sweet KGB Lord, and It's A Wonderful Nige.
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds
16 min
June 29, 2023 Episode 2
Jon Holmes's comedy current affairs concept album remixes news into award winning satirical shapes. This week - Apocalypse Nyet, a Succession of sewage, and oh, those Russians...
Creator and Producer: Jon Holmes
Technicals: Tony Churnside
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
15 min
June 22, 2023 Episode 1
Jon Holmes's comedy current affairs concept album returns for a brand new series to remix the news into multi award-winning noise shapes. This week: Satan's peerages, submarines, and an Even Flow.
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
15 min
March 30, 2023 Episode 8
Jon Holmes's award-winning satire twists itself into current affairs. This week - Laughing Gas Policeman, Death Wish Starmer, and Inflation Goes Up To 11.
Producer: Jon Holmes
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
16 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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