The Naked Week: Ep 1. Oval arguments, awful algorithms, and a game of Top (Donald) Trumps.

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

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4.2 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The Naked Week team are back to place satirical news-tariffs on current events with a mix of correspondents, guests and, occasionally, live animals. This week we fail to wear a suit, dance around the problems with TikTok like no one's watching, and guest correspondent Rosie Holt radicalises some children.

From The Skewer’s Jon Holmes and host Andrew Hunter Murray comes The Naked Week, a fresh way of dressing the week’s news in the altogether and parading it around for everyone to laugh at.

With award-winning writers and a crack team of contemporary satirists - and recorded in front of a live audience - The Naked Week delivers a topical news-nude straight to your ears.

Written by: Jon Holmes Katie Sayer Gareth Ceredig Jason Hazeley Sarah Dempster

Investigations Team: Cat Neilan Louis Mian Freya Shaw Matt Brown

Guests: Rosie Holt, Dr Nussaibah Younis, Laura Windsor.

Production Team: Katie Sayer, Laura Grimshaw, Tony Churnside, Jerry Peal, Phoebe Butler.

Executive Producer: Philip Abrams Produced and Directed by Jon Holmes

An unusual production for BBC Radio 4

This episode of The Naked Week is dedicated to our colleague and friend Bill Dare.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Did you know that you can listen to many of your favorite podcasts first on BBC Sounds?
0:06.9	Like Friday Night Comedy, where you can hear the latest episode seven days earlier,
0:11.0	and a week is an extremely long time in politics.
0:14.4	Good things come to those who don't wait.
0:17.4	Listen to your favourite podcasts first on BBC Sounds.
0:22.9	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:31.2	Hello and welcome to the Naked Week.
0:38.2	Imagine news round after it's been shouted at by J.D. Vance for not wearing a shirt.
0:43.5	So, as Radio 4 gives up the news quiz for Lent, we're back in the week that, at his State
0:48.6	of the Union address, President Donald Trump does nothing to quash rumours. He's a Russian puppet.
0:53.4	It's time to stop this madness. It's He's a Russian puppet. It's time to stop this madness.
0:55.5	It's time to halt the killing.
0:57.5	It's time to end the senseless war.
0:59.7	On the Muppet show tonight.
1:05.1	And following her recent telegraph article on national values,
1:10.7	Suella Braverman goes to surprising length to demonstrate what Englishness is all about.
1:15.5	She got down on her knees in front of a beefeater.
1:21.5	Crikey?
1:23.6	So, Zelensky, Trump, Vance, tariff rouse, China threatening war, emergency EU summits, hostages, hell to pay.
1:30.9	I don't know, perhaps this week is best summed up this way.
1:33.8	Ah!
1:38.8	Honestly, where to start?
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