The Naked Week: Ep4. Performing, Potholes, and Paddington.
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
BBC
4.2 • 13.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The Naked Week team are back to place satirical news-tariffs on current events with a mix of correspondents, guests and, occasionally, live animals.
This week we Spring (Statement) into action with a timely tune for - and by - Rachel Reeves, explore a pothole that's opened up in the programme, and accidentally get added to Radio 4's Group Chat.
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 Sarah Dempster Jason Hazeley
Investigations Team: Cat Neilan Louis Mian Freya Shaw Matt Brown
Guests: Ania Magliano, Bethany Reeves, with music by The Naked Week Wind Section.
Production Team: Laura Grimshaw, Tony Churnside, Jerry Peal, Katie Sayer, Phoebe Butler.
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 | 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. |
| 0:53.3 | Hello, I'm Angela Hunter Murray and welcome to The Naked Week. Imagine the news quiz after 10,000 staff had been cut to save costs. |
| 1:00.3 | This week, Donald Trump finds his NATO membership card down the back of the White House sofa. |
| 1:05.0 | I think we probably won't be using it very much. |
| 1:08.8 | And, as always, both the spring statement and opposition response were sentence after |
| 1:14.5 | sentence of tedious spin. To keep themselves awake, Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride had a |
| 1:18.6 | competition about who could say the word headroom the most times per minute. |
| 1:22.2 | The headroom left by the previous government. All of her fiscal headroom disappeared. |
| 1:27.2 | Providing headroom of 15.1 billion pounds. |
| 1:30.6 | What provision has she made |
| 1:32.1 | in her headroom? |
| 1:33.6 | When I was left with a slither of headroom? |
| 1:35.7 | With a sliver of headroom. |
| 1:37.4 | Okay, you're very good at that. |
| 1:39.2 | Let's make it harder. |
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