The Naked Week: Ep1. Lobbying, art, soup, and farms
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
BBC
4.2 • 13.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
From The Skewer’s Jon Holmes 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.
Host Andrew Hunter Murray and chief correspondent Amy Hoggart will strip away the curtain and dive into not only the big stories, but also the way the news is packaged and presented.
From 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.
This week - Lobbying, art, soup, and farms.
Written by: Jon Holmes Katie Sayer Sarah Dempster Gareth Ceredig Jason Hazeley Adam Macqueen Louis Mian
Partial Nudity: Marc Haynes Cornelius Mendez
with Additional Material.
Production Team: Laura Grimshaw, Tony Churnside, Jerry Peal, Katie Sayer, Phoebe Butler.
Produced and Directed by Jon Holmes Executive Producer: Philip Abrams
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're about to listen to a BBC podcast, but this is about something else you might enjoy. |
| 0:05.4 | My name's Katie Lecky and I'm an assistant commissioner for on demand music on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:10.8 | The BBC has an incredible musical heritage and culture and as a music lover, I love being part of that. |
| 0:17.5 | With music on sounds, we offer collections and mixes for everything, from workouts to |
| 0:22.4 | helping you nod off, boogie in your kitchen, or even just a moment of calm. And they're all put |
| 0:28.3 | together by people who know their stuff. So if you want some expertly curated music in your life, |
| 0:35.0 | check out BBC Sounds. |
| 0:41.2 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:49.6 | Hello and welcome to The Naked Week, a brand new show slipping seamlessly into the slot marked Friday night comedy on Radio 4. |
| 0:50.7 | The plan is simple. |
| 0:54.4 | We'll be looking at, in, beneath, and behind the headlines to find out just what's really going on. Just like Justin Welby didn't with that awkward report. |
| 0:59.9 | Coming up in the next 28 minutes then, farms, bots, soothsaying, lobbying, and soup, plus a Greg |
| 1:05.4 | Wallace joke that may or may not make the edit depending on the lawyers. But first, this week on The Naked Week, Donald Trump announced the latest nomination to his cabinet. |
| 1:14.2 | The two-kilogram garden gnome made of the drug MDMA. |
| 1:18.7 | To be fair, not his worst pick. |
| 1:21.3 | Elsewhere, Jeremy Vine's Christmas penis seems to be completely out of control. |
| 1:25.0 | I was accidentally projecting snowflakes onto the ceiling of my neighbour's bedroom without realising. |
| 1:32.8 | So I had to use a special blinker on it. |
| 1:36.5 | Merry Christmas, everybody. |
| 1:38.5 | Speaking of which, Talk TV totally destroyed the magic of the school nativity. |
| 1:42.2 | Schools are telling them that they could be a cat or or a wolf, or a lizard, or a dog, or a giraffe. |
| 1:48.9 | Well, no, you can't. Get a bloody job. |
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