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This week, The Naked Week shoehorns an agenda, gets out of jail free, and in a genuine Radio 4 first - Taylor Swift pays a visit to the studio!

From host Andrew Hunter Murray and The Skewer's Jon Holmes, Radio 4’s newest Friday night comedy The Naked Week returns with a blend of the silly and serious. From satirical stunts to studio set pieces via guest correspondents and investigative journalism, it's a bold, audacious take not only on the week’s news, but also the way it’s packaged and presented.

Host: Andrew Hunter Murray

Investigations Team: Cat Neilan, Cormac Kehoe, Freya Shaw

Written by:

Additional Material:

Live Sound: Jerry Peal

Assistant Producer: Katie Sayer

Executive Producer: Phil Abrams.

An unusual production for BBC Radio 4

This week we provide recourse for a randy royal, organise an on-air riot and, for Halloween, get confused over which witch is which.

From host Andrew Hunter Murray and The Skewer's Jon Holmes, Radio 4’s newest Friday night comedy The Naked Week returns with a blend of the silly and serious. From satirical stunts to studio set pieces via guest correspondents and investigative journalism it's a bold, audacious take not only on the week’s news, but also the way it’s packaged and presented.

An unusual production for BBC Radio 4

Host; Andrew Hunter Murray

Investigations Team: Cat Neilan, Cormac Kehoe, Freya Shaw

Written by:

Additional Material:

Live Sound: Jerry Peal

Assistant Producer: Katie Sayer

Executive Producer: Phil Abrams.

an unusual production for BBC Radio 4.

Second stop of the new series is Wrexham in North Wales.

Wrexham has gone from industrial workhorse to global celebrity, thanks to two Hollywood actors who bought the local football club.

This is the 14th series of Mark's award-winning show where he travels around the country visiting towns that have nothing in common but their uniqueness. After thoroughly researching each town, Mark writes and performs a bespoke evening of comedy for a local audience. As well as Wrexham, in this series, Mark be will also be popping to Oakham, Cambridge, Lewisham and, Lerwick and Unst in Shetland.

There will also be extended versions of each episode available on BBC sounds.

Written and performed by Mark Steel

Additional material by Pete Sinclair

A BBC Studios production for Radio 4

Nick sits down with Techno Antonio Negri from Technomaterialism to discuss harm reduction regarding drug use in club culture and European drug policies.

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Lawrence Wilkerson and Gary Vogler join us to discuss and answer the question: Who controls US foreign policy in the Middle East—the US or Israel/Zionism? Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired US Army Colonel and former chief of staff to US Secretary of State Colin Powell. Gary Vogler is a retired US oil executive and served as the senior oil advisor to General Jay Gardner and Paul Bremer after the 2003 Iraq War. Vogler is also the author of the very important book, 'Israel, Winner of the 2003 Iraq Oil War: Undue Influence, Deceptions, and the Neocon Energy Agenda'.

Special thanks to:

·         Dana Chavarria, production

·         Casey Moore, graphics

·         Michelle Boley, animated intro

·         Mock Orange, music

Journalist Seth Harp joins us to discuss The Fort Bragg Cartel, his trailblazing new book on the endemic drug abuse, murder, mayhem, narcotics trafficking, and legal immunity of the US Special Forces milieu centered at Fort Bragg. The Fort Brag Cartel is currently being adapted into a series for HBO.

Special thanks to:

·         Dana Chavarria, production

·         Casey Moore, graphics

·         Michelle Boley, animated intro

·         Mock Orange, music

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In this episode, Jim DeBrosse and Asa Winstanley join us to discuss Jim’s new article, “Israel was part of the conspiracy to kill JFK.” Jim DeBrosse (PhD) is a veteran journalist, retired assistant professor of journalism, and the author of See No Evil: The JFK Assassination and the US Media. Asa Winstanley provided additional research Jim’s article. Asa is an investigative journalist who lives in London. He is an associate editor of The Electronic Intifada and co-host of The Electronic Intifada Podcast. Asa is also the author of the bestselling book Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn.

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Special thanks to:

Dana Chavarria, production

Casey Moore, graphics

Michelle Boley, animated intro

Mock Orange, music

Alasdair Beckett-King, Laura Lexx, Ahir Shah and Ava Santina join Andy Zaltzman for this week's quiz.

Brace yourselves for stories about the stripping of both Royal Titles and Royal Crown Jewels as well as the big question of the moment, are things better or worse than they used to be?

Written by Andy Zaltzman

A BBC Studios Production for Radio 4.