The Naked Week: Ep3. Shipping, Shopping, and Shagg...you know what, never mind.
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
BBC
4.1 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The team launch the Naked Week Investment Portfolio for Hard Done-By Young People and go shipping, shopping and shagg...you know what, never mind.
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 James Kettle Jason Hazeley
Additional Material: Karl Minns Viverinne Hopley Jones Cooper Mawhinny Sweryt Darren Phillips Kevin Smith
Investigation team: Cat Neilan Katie Sayer Becky Pinnington Abigail Mableson Mia Jones Ben Stanton Nathaniel Peutherer Cailtin Holtzman Paola Matha
with thanks to Richard Danbury.
Guests: Rosalie Minnitt, Jo Saunderson, and the voice of the Shipping Forecast Amanda Litherland.
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. |
| 0:07.0 | An early start here. It's time to kick off. |
| 0:10.0 | Your day. Morning! |
| 0:11.9 | What a line-up. |
| 0:13.3 | Oh, thanks very much. We do get some great guests on the show. |
| 0:16.1 | The crowd is loving this. |
| 0:18.3 | Thanks, guys. Thank you. Too kind. |
| 0:20.2 | From morning chaos to match day commentary. |
| 0:23.6 | And everything in between. |
| 0:25.0 | BBC sounds packed with personality. |
| 0:31.6 | Hello and welcome to The Naked Week. |
| 0:38.4 | Imagine the world that won if it had accidentally recorded a cameo message for some Nazis. |
| 0:44.5 | And speaking of which, Nigel Farage is thrilled about this year's rival to Clacton Pride. |
| 0:49.6 | The Straits of Hormuz. |
| 0:53.3 | Much harder to get a float through there, though. |
| 0:57.1 | Also on the way, is there anything |
| 0:58.9 | the rest is politics won't do an emergency podcast about? |
| 1:02.0 | Humpty Dumpty's fallen off the wall. |
| 1:05.8 | In other news, the Grandad Duke of York |
| 1:07.5 | remains under house arrest. |
| 1:11.7 | Also coming up, Nick Robinson reveals what really goes on |
| 1:14.8 | behind the scenes of the Today program. |
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