Dom Joly Breaks the News

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

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Comedy

4.2 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The third of our satirical specials this summer. In a topical mash-up of prank calls, interviews and features, Dom Joly offers his mischievously surreal take on the people and stories that are hitting the week's headlines. As Dom attempts to get to the bottom of the biggest stories of the week, he challenges experts and makes calls to the wrong people about the wrong thing, often at the wrong time. Best known for Trigger Happy TV which reinvented the hidden camera format, Dom actually has a degree in politics and is a former diplomat. He once stood against Alan Clarke in the 1997 general election. So make no mistake, in Dom Joly Breaks the News, Dom’s asking serious questions about that week's actual news. He just wonders whether approaching things from a slightly different angle might give us more interesting answers. Presenter – Dom Joly Producers – Alison Vernon-Smith and Julian Mayers A Yada-Yada Audio production for BBC Radio 4

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts This is the office of Lee Anderson MP,
0:16.7	MP for Icefield and Eastwood.
0:20.8	Due to the current virus, unfortunately, there is nobody in the office and your telephone
0:28.1	call will be forwarded.
0:31.1	Thank you.
0:34.1	Hello.
0:35.1	This is a message for Mr. Lee Anderson.
0:39.1	I am in Paris.
0:41.1	My name is Serge Gasbourg.
0:43.1	I work in the office of President Macron.
0:46.1	I'm a micro-macron.
0:49.1	We have been reading in conservative.com that you are possibly the future of politics.
0:57.1	As you know, Mr. Macron is having a problem right now.
1:02.1	He was wondering if you could have a conversation.
1:06.1	Maybe you can give some tips as to how you are so successful and popular.
1:12.1	But, sadly, I hear right now on your message machine that you still have COVID.
1:20.1	Frankly, this could be a problem because, in France, COVID, we have no more.
1:28.1	I don't know. Maybe because of Brexit, you still have the COVID.
1:32.1	So anyway, when you have finished with the COVID, and if you are not too busy on the GB news,
1:37.1	by the way, we are huge fans. We love this. Speak the truth.
1:41.1	And then maybe you and Mr. Macron, you can speak.
1:45.1	It's good. Live France. See you.
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