The Skewer

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The Skewer episodes

March 23, 2023 Episode 7
Jon Holmes's multi-award winning satire twists itself into current affairs. This week - Boris on trial in A Few Bad Men, Eyes in the Wires, and Robot Culture Wars.
Producer; Jon Holmes
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
16 min
March 16, 2023 Episode 6
Jon Holmes' award-winning satire twists itself into current affairs. This week - PoliceMen Behaving Badly, Suella Braverman Thinks of a Number with Johnny Ball, and Gary, Gary, Gary.
Producer: Jon Holmes
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
16 min
March 09, 2023 Episode 5
Jon Holmes's The Skewer twists itself into current affairs. This week - Refugee Regatta, Rogue Royal Landlords, and the fable of The Frog and the Journalist.
Producer: Jon Holmes
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
16 min
March 02, 2023 Episode 4
Jon Holmes's multi-award-winning The Skewer returns to twist itself into current affairs. This week - Attack of the Missing Tomatoes, the Book of Starmer, and the Tale of Shamima Puddleduck.
Producer: Jon Holmes
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
15 min
February 23, 2023 Episode 3
Jon Holmes's multi-award-winning The Skewer returns to twist itself into current affairs. This week - a dalliance with Dahl, Deal or No Northern Ireland Deal, Andrew Tate Modern, and GI Joe Biden.
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
16 min
February 16, 2023 Episode 2
Jon Holmes's multi-award-winning The Skewer returns to twist itself into current affairs. This week - a Sturgeon leaps, it's Balloondependence Day, and labour leader Mr Cellophane.
Produced by Jon Holmes.
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
16 min
February 09, 2023 Episode 1
Jon Holmes's multi-award-winning The Skewer returns to twist itself into current affairs. This week: SAS Rogue Gas Fitters, Liz Truss is in her Happy Valley, and Dominic Raab channels his inner Gripper Stebson from Grange Hill.
Produced by Jon Holmes.
The Skewer is an unusual production.
16 min
November 03, 2022 The Skewer: 100 Years of the BBC
Jon Holmes' multi-award-winning The Skewer twists itself into the past, as it sets about dismantling 100 Years of the BBC.
The archive is plundered, the BBC's history is revisited, and it's all cut up and smashed about via The Skewer's no-holds-barred and unforgiving approach.
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
30 min
October 27, 2022 Episode 7
Jon Holmes's multi-award-winning satire. This week - the Rishi Sunak Memory Wipe, Tory Cabinet Swap Shop, and The Cost of Living Witch Farm.
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
16 min
October 20, 2022 Episode 6
Jon Holmes's multi award-winning satire returns to twist itself into current affairs like a comedy concept album made of news. . This week - Kwarsimodo, Jeremy Swearword, and Liz Truss: A Knives Out Mystery
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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