The Naked Week: Ep1. War, Law, and Operation Amol Rajan.
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
BBC
4.1 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The Naked Week team dive into war, flout the law and enjoy a real life Town Crier performing selected highlights from Amol Rajan's Instagram feed.
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 an topical news-nude straight to your ears.
Written by: Jon Holmes Katie Sayer Gareth Ceredig James Kettle Jason Hazeley
Additional Material: Karl Minns Ali Panting Helen Brooks Pete Redfern Cooper Mawhinny Sweryt Joe Topping
Investigations Team: Cat Neilan Emily Channon
Guests: Rachel Parris, Mark Stephens CBE, Alan Myatt.
Production Team: Tony Churnside, Jerry Peal, David Riffkin.
Production Coordinator: Molly Punshon Assistant Producer: Katie Sayer 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 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | Hello, I've just nipped in before your BBC podcast starts to tell you all about |
| 0:09.4 | You're Dead to Me. We're the comedy podcast that takes history seriously. Also from the BBC |
| 0:13.9 | and presented by me, Greg Jenner. I should have told you that at the beginning. Sorry. |
| 0:17.9 | Anyway, like many other BBC podcasts, such as Desert Island Discs, Evil Genius, or In Our Time, your dead to me is available first on BBC Sounds, |
| 0:26.3 | a whole month earlier than anywhere else, in fact. So if you can't wait another day to hear |
| 0:31.2 | the very latest in history and loads of other good stuff, then listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:44.1 | Thank you. of other good stuff, then listen first on BBC Sounds. Hello, I'm Andrew Hontamari. |
| 0:45.5 | Welcome to The Naked Week. |
| 0:47.0 | Imagine the world that won if it had been driven into the ground by Brew Dog. |
| 0:53.3 | Coming up on the Naked Week this week, Donald Trump explains Iran. |
| 0:56.8 | When crazy people have nuclear weapons, bad things happen. |
| 1:00.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:01.9 | We know. |
| 1:03.0 | That's why we're scared of you, Donald. |
| 1:06.6 | At her deposition in New York, Hillary Clinton delivers the official flimsyest line of defense of all time. |
| 1:12.2 | Do you have any idea if the Epstein referred to is the Jeffrey Epstein? There's a lot of people named Epstein in this area. |
| 1:21.5 | Yes, Hillary, but this one's in the yellow pages under pedophiles. |
| 1:27.8 | Now, before we begin, on behalf of the BBC, we just want to say the Naked Week is very pleased |
| 1:32.5 | to offer a very special welcome to all the people with Tourette's syndrome. We've invited |
| 1:37.1 | along to this recording by way of an apology for the Bafter de Barclay. All 56 of them |
| 1:43.2 | arrived by coach this afternoon. |
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