The Skewer

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The Skewer episodes

April 21, 2022 Episode 3
Jon Holmes remixes the news. This week - a bit like Uncle Vernon in Harry Potter, Boris's letterbox is besieged by owls bearing police FPNs, we Escape To The War Torn Country, and ask 'What Is A Woman?'
An Unusual production for BBC Radio 4
16 min
April 14, 2022 Episode 2
Jon Holmes's The Skewer returns to twist itself into current affairs. This week - Hashtag Partygate, Kicking Against The Pickles, You've Got A Friend In Prince Charles, and Boris is (Steven) Toast (of Westminster).
An Unusual production for BBC Radio 4
16 min
April 07, 2022 Episode 1
Jon Holmes's multi-award-winning The Skewer returns to twist itself into current affairs.
This week - The Skewer: White-warshing, Bob The Qatar Builder, Lad's Army, the musical Westminster Side Story, and what happens when you say Rishi Sunak's name five times into a mirror.
An Unusual production for BBC Radio 4
16 min
December 16, 2021 Episode 7
Jon Holmes remixes the news into a disturbing, satirical, current affairs concept album. This week - The Man Who Wasn't There, The Succession of Boris, and The Matrix: Restrictions.
An Unusual production for BBC Radio 4
15 min
December 09, 2021 Episode 6
Jon Holmes's The Skewer returns to twist itself into current affairs. This week, a Government dead cat, a partridge in a pear tree, and a par-ty in Number 10. Plus Boris's Christmas (Gas) Lights, and a game of Chinese Tennis.
An Unusual production for BBC Radio 4
15 min
December 02, 2021 Episode 5
Jon Holmes's The Skewer returns to twist itself into current affairs. This week - Omicron is Coming, and Nadine Dorries is on Mastermind with a specialist subject of 'Nothing'.
An Unusual production for BBC Radio 4
15 min
November 25, 2021 Episode 4
A twisted comedy treat. This week, Adele has a gunfight with Samuel L Jackson, Limp Bizkit tackle food poverty, and a certain cartoon pig is very rude to the Prime Minister.
16 min
November 18, 2021 Episode 3
Your new news fix. Jon Holmes's The Skewer returns to twist itself into current affairs.
15 min
November 11, 2021 Episode 2
Your new news fix. Jon Holmes's The Skewer returns to twist itself into current affairs.
15 min
November 04, 2021 Episode 1
Fresh from winning in three categories at the 2021 New York Festival Awards, Jon Holmes returns with his multi-award winning satirical soundscape The Skewer, as it twists itself into the news like a concept album of current affairs. It's your new news fix.
"Its sharpness left me slack-jawed." The Times
"A surreal flow of snippets - news and views, music and memories - melded into a huge
orchestral piece of compelling originality. THE SKEWER is satire at its cleverest, both
biting and beautiful. If you could listen to a Francis Bacon painting, this is what it would
sound like.”
“A unique celebration of diversity in terms of views, contributors, and attitude. The Skewer is a masterpiece that gives voice to the unheard”.
AWARDS
The Skewer wins in 3 categories at the 2021 New York Festival Awards: Comedy, Sound Art, and Innovation.
The Skewer wins Gold (Best Radio Podcast) at the 2021 British Podcast Awards
The Skewer wins Gold (Best Comedy Producer) at the 2021 Audio Production Awards
The Skewer wins Gold (Best Comedy) and Silver (Best New Show) at the 2021 Radio Academy Awards, the #UKArias
The Skewer wins Gold for Best Comedy at the 2021 BBC Audio & Drama Awards
The Skewer wins Gold at the New York Radio Festival in 2020.
The Skewer wins Silver at the 2020 Podcast Awards.
The Skewer wins Bronze (Best Sound Design) at the 2020 Audio Production Awards
The Skewer is nominated for a 2020 Chortle Award ('Radio Comedy')
The Skewer pilot (BBC Radio 4 - April 2019) won the 'Best Comedy Producer' Silver award at the 2019 Audio Production Awards.
The Halloween Skewer (BBC Radio 4 - October 2019) is nominated in two categories at the 2020 BBC Audio Drama Awards: 'Best Comedy' and 'Best Use of Sound'.
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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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