The Naked Week: Ep 3. Benefits, Borders, and a game of Truss or Towers.

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

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4.2 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 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 apply for a job in the parliamentary Work and Pensions office, play a game of 'Liz Truss or new ride at Alton Towers', and make a military incursion into Ambridge to steal territory from The Archers.

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 Sarah Dempster Jason Hazeley

Investigations Team: Cat Neilan Louis Mian Freya Shaw Matt Brown

Guests: Rubina Pabani, Alice Stapleton.

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

Executive Producer: Philip Abrams Produced and Directed by Jon Holmes

An unusual production for BBC Radio 4.

Transcript

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0:00.0	No, you keep that private.
0:04.1	Find out what made Lily Allen and Mickey to Oliver say this.
0:08.0	It's just so next level what we're talking about.
0:10.9	But you know what I mean?
0:12.4	And this.
0:13.3	I think we should put our phones down and go to the park
0:15.9	and try and remember what was good about the world
0:18.3	and let's try and get back to there.
0:20.2	Sounds good. Join them as they's try and get back to there. Sounds good.
0:21.3	Join them as they talk about pretty much everything.
0:24.8	Yes, we do go to all sorts of places, happy, sad and everything in between.
0:29.7	Miss me with Lily Allen and Makita Oliver.
0:32.8	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:36.3	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:44.5	Hello, I'm Andrew Hunter Murray.
0:50.3	Welcome to The Naked Week.
0:51.6	Imagine Panorama, if it's electrical substationation had caught fire and all the news was cancelled.
0:57.0	So, coming up on the show, we listen in as
0:59.7	Donald Trump and J.D. Vance come up with their plan to
1:01.9	take over Ukraine's nuclear power plants.
1:04.1	Smith, I'm massage my brain. Yes, sir.
1:07.7	You and I can run this plant
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