The Naked Week: Ep2. The Naked Week team party like it's the 2003 Iraq War.
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
BBC
4.1 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The Naked Week team party like it's the 2003 Iraq War, and then re-enact it with the help of a Viking.
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 Darren Phillips
Investigation: Cat Neilan
Guests: Rosie Holt, Jimmy The 11th Century Welsh Viking.
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. |
| 0:07.4 | Hello, I'm Angela Scanlan, and I want to tell you about a brand new podcast, |
| 0:11.8 | The Apprentice Unfinished Business. |
| 0:13.9 | You're fired. |
| 0:15.1 | Each week straight after Lord Sugar's famous pointy finger has done its thing, |
| 0:18.9 | I'll be joined by the fired candidates, and there'll be special guests along for the ride. |
| 0:23.1 | You have the idea, you have the energy, |
| 0:25.3 | you need the money to get going. |
| 0:27.2 | I do think this is the hardest show on TV. |
| 0:29.8 | The Apprentice Unfinished Business. |
| 0:32.1 | Watch an eye player. Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:42.7 | Thank you. Listen on BBC Sounds. Hello and welcome to The Naked Week. |
| 0:45.2 | Imagine John Craven's news round |
| 0:46.7 | trying to navigate the Strait of Hormuz in a pedalo. |
| 0:50.6 | Coming up on the Naked Week this week. |
| 0:52.7 | With very little known about Iran's newly selected supreme leader, |
| 0:56.0 | Rory Stewart reckons he could be Russell Crow. |
| 0:58.8 | This is Hamini, and he is the son of a murdered father. |
| 1:04.3 | He's the husband of a wife who's been killed. |
| 1:07.8 | And I will have my vengeance in this life or the next. |
| 1:11.8 | Are you not entertained? |
| 1:13.7 | Of course not. |
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