Dead Ringers: Ep 3. Glastonbury, Benefits, and Bombs.

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

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4.2 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The Dead Ringers team are back to train their vocal firepower on the week’s news with an armoury of impressive impressions. This week: Trump drops the F-Bomb, Lammy drops another clanger, and money saving expert Martin Lewis drops into NATO.

Cast: Jan Ravens, Jon Culshaw, Lewis Macleod, Jess Robinson, Duncan Wisbey and Kieran Hodgson.

The episode was written by: Nev Fountain and Tom Jamieson, Laurence Howarth, Tom Coles, Sophie Dickson, Toussaint Douglas, Peter Tellouche, Rob Darke, Edward Tew, Jon Holmes, Alice Bright, Katie Sayer, Davina Bentley, Rachel E Thorn, Chris Ballard and Pete Redfern

Created by Bill Dare Producer: Jon Holmes Executive Producer: Pete Strauss Production Co-ordinator: Caroline Barlow

Transcript

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0:00.0	There are a few sibling rivalries quite like that of Liam and Noel Gallagher.
0:05.6	He had a row with me.
0:06.8	Should be had a fight and that was it.
0:08.3	Oasis, a band committed to the rock and roll dream.
0:12.1	There's only so many, like, olive branches you can give someone, you know what I mean?
0:15.2	Join me, Steve Lemack.
0:16.9	And me, Joe Wiley, as we not only celebrate the music that Oasis made,
0:21.3	but also delve into the complex and unruly rivalry.
0:24.5	A band with your brother, that would become the Achilles heel in the end.
0:29.0	The rise and fall of Oasis.
0:30.9	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:34.2	BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts.
0:40.0	This is Iranian State TV, and now a message from our supreme leader.
0:45.3	Glorious people of Iran, our nation stood with one voice.
0:49.9	Today I celebrate our victory over the war mongers, Israel and America, from my personal bunker deep beneath 150 feet of solid concrete.
0:59.8	May all our enemies perish.
1:02.5	I'm sorry, excuse me.
1:06.0	Sorry, I tell you, could you buzz up a bit?
1:09.3	Sorry, it's a bit cramped in here.
1:12.3	Who the hell are you? Oh, I tell like, could you buzz up a bit? Sorry, it's a bit cramped in here. Who the hell are you?
1:14.4	Oh, yeah, sorry, I'm Keir.
1:18.1	You did say we're under 150 feet of concrete, didn't you?
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