The Naked Week: Ep5. Tariffic Trump retaliation, and Woop Woop - it's the sound of the Thought Police.

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

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4.2 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 29 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 'woop woop' at the sound of the Thought Police, enjoy a spot of 'tariffic' retaliation, and bang a gong for the local elections.

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.

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Investigations Team: Cat Neilan Louis Mian Freya Shaw Matt Brown

Guests: Larry Budd, and Felicity Hannah out of off of Radio 4's Moneybox Live.

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	The new series of Call Jonathan Pye is out now.
0:05.4	Why are you doing it in that voice?
0:06.7	It's my BBC radio voice, isn't it?
0:08.8	You know, this is the BBC.
0:10.9	Try something different.
0:11.6	Well, we're trying to attract a new audience, like, make it, I don't know, what do I mean?
0:17.2	It's sexy.
0:18.2	Sexy, how's that going to work?
0:19.5	For one second, just imagine me trying to be sexy.
0:22.8	How's that make you feel?
0:24.1	Very, very unwell.
0:25.1	Exactly.
0:25.7	So let's just stick with the BBC voice, shall we?
0:28.1	Call Jonathan Pye.
0:29.6	Listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:33.6	BBC Sounds.
0:34.7	Music, radio, podcasts.
0:45.7	Hey! BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. Hello, I'm Andrew Hunter-Murray, and welcome to The Naked Week.
0:48.6	Imagine the moral maze after a 10% tariff on Michael Burke's chinos.
0:54.6	Coming up on the Naked Week, Trump escalates his round with Russia.
0:58.5	He did sort of take a dump on Putin.
1:02.2	Wow.
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