The Naked Week: Ep2. Spin, Milestones, and Monopoly (Qatar edition)
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
BBC
4.2 • 13.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
We interrogate how many milestones make a mission, look at how some MPs fund their offices and with all the Gregg Wallace unpleasantness we put a crisis management expert under pressure to give celebrities tips on how to apologise.
Host Andrew Hunter Murray, Chief Correspondent Amy Hoggart, The Skewer's Jon Holmes and The Naked Week team deliver a topical news-nude straight to your ears.
The Naked Week team strip away the curtain and dive into not only the big stories, but also the way in which the news is packaged and presented.
Written by: Jon Holmes Katie Sayer Sarah Dempster Gareth Ceredig Jason Hazeley Adam Macqueen Louis Mian
Additional material: Marc Haynes Cornelius Mendez
Guests this week: Jordan Greenaway Dr Beth Malory
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. |
| 0:41.3 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:52.8 | Hello, hello and welcome to the Naked Week Radio 4's new Friday night comedy. |
| 0:54.4 | Imagine Newsnight broadcast under martial law, and you're halfway there. So, political crisis in France, rebels battling |
| 1:01.0 | Assad's forces in Syria, continuing conflict in the Middle East. And yet, all the UK media |
| 1:05.5 | really seemed to care about this week was a bald man who said this. A handful of middle-class women of a certain age. |
| 1:12.6 | Do we have any middle-class women of a certain age in the audience? |
| 1:16.6 | Of course we do! Good! |
| 1:19.6 | Now, we all know the only time that phrase should be deployed is, if it's an answer to the question, |
| 1:23.6 | Alexa, who goes wild swimming? |
| 1:30.8 | But not so much Greg Wallace, who took to Instagram with that in much the same way that a bullet might take itself to his own foot. |
| 1:37.1 | It's been a week of wall-to-wall Wallace, with the accusations growing. |
| 1:41.0 | Earlier this week, the BBC removed the Master Chef Christmas specials from the schedules, |
| 1:45.1 | leaving only Master Chef the Professionals, Master Chef celebrities, and Master Chef the doubling down |
| 1:49.7 | asshole in the glasses untouched. Now, at this point, you will be unsurprised to learn that |
| 1:54.9 | the BBC lawyer has told us we must reiterate that Greg Wallace denies all the accusations, |
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