The Naked Week: Ep6. Parties, polycules, and pardoning

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

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Comedy

4.2 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

This week, The Naked Week team look at Your Party, join a polycule, and bestow some Christmas pardons.

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: Rosie Holt, Leanne Yau The Naked Week Carol Singers: Fiona Mundy, Holly Alderson, Kayley Williams, Molly Punshon

Investigations Team: Cat Neilan, Cormac Kehoe, Freya Shaw

Written by: Jon Holmes Katie Sayer Gareth Ceredig Jason Hazeley James Kettle

Additional Material: Karl Minns Joe Topping Cooper Mawhinny Sweryt David Riffkin WH Auden

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.
0:07.3	Welcome to the Wayne Rooney show.
0:09.3	Twice a week, Wayne Rooney, Kayeard and me, Kelly Somers,
0:12.4	break down the biggest stories in the Premier League and beyond.
0:15.5	Coming to the Premier League, he's shown one called Play, he isn't.
0:18.2	He's been probably the sound of the season.
0:19.6	Plus, we'll hear the funniest and most outrageous stories from Wayne's career. I had two seasons when I played as the number nine and scored 34 goals in both the seasons. But I was bored. Wayne Runey shown. It's what everybody's talking about. Watch an eye player, listen on sounds.
0:47.2	Hello, I'm Andrew Hunter Murray.
0:48.8	Welcome to the Naked Week.
0:50.2	Imagine the today program if it had drunk Tumbridge Wells' tap water
0:52.1	without boiling it.
0:55.2	Coming up on the Naked Week this week, with looming doctor strikes,
0:58.5	health secretary Wes Streeting explains his radical new plans.
1:01.8	If there weren't patients, the NHS would run more smoothly.
1:07.7	Yeah, Britain.
1:09.1	If you could just stop getting old, ill, pregnant or injured,
1:12.3	we could have a health service that's the envy of the world.
1:16.8	Press for details.
1:18.0	Richard Tice is asked to name Nigel Farage's constituency.
1:21.0	Claptrap.
1:21.6	Oh, very close, Richard.
1:23.3	Very close.
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