The Naked Week: Ep3. Trump, Traitors, and RIP Tim Davie
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
BBC
4.2 • 13.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
This week, The Naked Week fundraises for the BBC, welcomes a traitor, and necromances a potato.
From host Andrew Hunter Murray and The Skewer's Jon Holmes, Radio 4’s newest Friday night comedy The Naked Week returns with a blend of the silly and serious. From satirical stunts to studio set pieces via guest correspondents and investigative journalism, it's a bold, audacious take not only on the week’s news, but also the way it’s packaged and presented.
Host: Andrew Hunter Murray Guests: Paul Gorton, Milo Edwards, and The BNC Players James Akka, Holly Skinner and Amy Small
Investigations Team: Cat Neilan, Cormac Kehoe, Freya Shaw
Written by: Jon Holmes Katie Sayer Gareth Ceredig Jason Hazeley James Kettle
Additional Material: Sophie Dickson Ali Panting Darren Phillips Cooper Mawhinny Sweryt David Riffkin
Live Sound: Jerry Peal Post Production: Tony Churnside Clip Assistant: David Riffkin Production Assistant: Molly Punshon
Assistant Producer: Katie Sayer Producer and Director: Jon Holmes
Executive Producer: Phil Abrams.
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:07.5 | This winter, cricket's oldest rivalry is reignited. |
| 0:15.0 | England and Australia do battle to compete for the ashes. |
| 0:20.8 | That is extraordinary. |
| 0:23.1 | Hear live ball by ball commentary on Fife Sports Extra. |
| 0:27.4 | And get analysis and reaction of every day's play with the Test Match Special podcast. |
| 0:32.9 | The Stamps out of the ground. |
| 0:34.4 | Test match special at the Ashes. |
| 0:37.3 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:44.8 | Kelly! |
| 0:50.3 | Hello, I'm Andrew Hunter Murray. |
| 0:52.1 | Welcome to The Naked Week. |
| 0:53.6 | Imagine panorama. You know what? Under no circumstances, imagine us as Panorama. And I want to make very clear to Donald Trump, we do not have $1 billion. Coming up on The Naked Week, in a week where BBC News has come under intense scrutiny, the today program's Emma Barnett goes out of her way to be transparent. You won't believe what I just did in the toilets. |
| 1:14.2 | Come on, Emma, it's only three hours. Go in a bottle like Humphrey's used to. |
| 1:17.7 | And, as with every scandal it becomes myden, the BBC's own reporting on itself, as usual, kept making things worse. |
| 1:25.1 | Those accusations arose from a report by a former independent BBC advisor, Michael Prescott. |
| 1:31.5 | In fact, one could say... |
| 1:32.9 | Your letter is only the star of it. |
| 1:36.8 | One letter. |
| 1:38.2 | Now you're a part of it. |
| 1:42.5 | I said one could say, but we absolutely would not. |
| 1:47.5 | Well, what a week it's been here at the biased broadcasting corporation? |
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