The Now Show - 10th November

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

BBC

Comedy

4.2 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical stand-up and sketches. They are joined by Alasdair Beckett-King who mourns his political heroes, Desiree Burch with a deep dive on fast fashion, and Huge Davies gives us his musical take on why AI might not be so bad after all.

The show was written by the cast with additional material from Mike Shephard, Zoe Tomalin, Christina Riggs and Cody Dahler.

Voice actors: Daniel Barker & Gemma Arrowsmith

Producer: Sasha Bobak Production Coordinator: Katie Baum

A BBC Studios Production for Radio 4

Transcript

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0:00.0	Once you've wrapped up this podcast, how about trying a very British cult?
0:06.0	What happens if the person you trust with your future isn't what you think they are?
0:10.0	I did feel the whole time he was watching me Yeti.
0:14.0	I saw a footprint and that really gave me goosebumps.
0:16.0	Or people who knew me.
0:18.0	Emmy, I remember every secret, every lie.
0:21.0	I'm the only one who knows the truth.
0:23.0	Discover more of our biggest podcast from 2003.
0:27.0	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:29.0	BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. Hello, I'm Steve Punth. And I'm Hugh Dennis.
0:43.0	With us at Desiree Birch, Alistabeket King, Daniel Barker,
0:46.0	Jemma Arrowsmith and Hughes Davis.
0:48.0	And this is...
0:52.0	The NOL Show.
0:55.0	Thank you very much.
0:57.0	Thank you very much.
1:02.0	Hello. Well it was the King's speech this week and it was a bit different to the last one 71 years ago.
1:09.2	Yeah I was the whole thing and he didn't stammer once.
1:13.0	There was widely noticed that the speech contained a number of measures that Charles is assumed
1:17.0	to personally disagree with, although there was nothing really groundbreaking except new
1:21.2	licenses for oil and gas exploration.
1:24.0	Yeah, which kind of have to be groundbreaking, or they won't find any.
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