Dead Ringers Ep4. Much Ado About North-ing

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

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4.1 • 13.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Like Andy Burnham’s No.10, Dead Ringers is in the North, at the Crossed Wires Podcast Festival in Sheffield. This week: Chris Mason is giddy, Zia Yusuf is everywhere, and The Rest is Politics has gone mad for it. Starring Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Duncan Wisbey and Kieran Hodgson. Produced by Jon Holmes Executive Producer: Richard Morris Production Co-ordinator: Giulia Lopes Mazzu A BBC Studios Production for Radio 4.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:08.2	Picture the scene. It's a summer's night. Everyone is sat around the campfire. And then, the stories begin.
0:17.0	I've felt a rush of air go past her, but when she looked up, there was nobody there.
0:22.5	Six years later, I'm still getting goosebumps about this.
0:25.7	Join me, Danny Robbins, for a summer season of spooky stories featuring a new uncanny
0:31.1	case. Uncanny summer specials. Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:39.2	Welcome to Sunday with Laura Coonsberg with me, the mean head of sixth form who shouts at girls for wearing nail varnish.
0:47.0	I'm joined by outgoing Prime Minister Kier Starrmer to talk about this week's announcement of his new defence investment plan involving drones.
0:55.0	Uh, no, Laura.
0:57.0	Not drones.
0:59.0	Dron.
1:00.0	Dron.
1:01.0	There's one drone.
1:05.0	Yep. And you're looking at it.
1:07.0	You're the drone.
1:09.0	Well, my time in government has made me realize that our most effective form of defence
1:14.6	is listening to me droning on and on and on and on.
1:21.6	Policy this, funding that.
1:24.6	Accountability this, tool maker that. It's exhausting and no one can get past it.
1:33.9	Basically, I've weaponised dullness. Secere, does your drone have any military advantages
1:41.1	beyond being unbelievably charisma-free.
1:49.7	Well, Laura, you see, the beauty of the Star-Mutron is that it's completely undetectable.
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