Dead Ringers: Ep2. De-escalation and nuclear proliferation

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

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4.2 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 29 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: Iran plays host to a surprising WMD Inspector, Laura Kuenssberg is de-escalated, and Ross Kemp on Grooming Gangs.

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, Rob Darke, Cody Dahler, Edward Tew Jon Holmes, Davina Bentley, Katie Sayer, Alice Bright and Chris Donovan

Created by Bill Dare Producer: Jon Holmes Executive Producer: James Robinson Production Co-ordinator: Caroline Barlow

Transcript

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0:12.1	There are only so many, like, olive branches you can give someone, you know what I mean?
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0:16.9	And me, Joe Wiley, as we not only celebrate the music that Oasis made, 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.
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0:34.2	BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts.
0:40.7	Shut up, losers.
0:44.2	The Donald is talking now.
0:47.3	So as Israel and Iran take us to the brink of World War III,
0:52.1	I just want to make it very clear.
0:55.9	This would never have happened if Donald Trump was president. But I know what you're asking. Why haven't I personally killed the Ayatoll
1:03.8	bridge yet? He's the boss of Iran. Big country. Bad country. Not a good country.
1:10.3	But I did some more digging into this Iran, big place, not new.
1:15.1	Used to be called Persia, Persia.
1:17.6	They named it after a rug, I think.
1:20.0	It's pretty sure.
1:22.8	Anyway, it turns out these guys got some ideas,
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