The Now Show - 13th March 2020 - ft Chris McCausland, Sara Barron and Huge Davies...

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

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4.2 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical stand-up and sketches Join The Now Show team with their unique take on the week's events. Chris McCausland visits A Quiet Place, Sara Barron is in splendid isolation and Huge Davies washes his hands of it all... Additional voices by Gemma Arrowsmith Written by the cast, with additional material from Catherine Brinkworth, Jon Hunter, Aidan Fitzmaurice and Simon Alcock Producer: Adnan Ahmed A BBC Studios Production

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.9	Hello Russell Kane here and we're back.
0:08.2	Evil Genius, our hit podcast where we take icons from history and reveal surprising things
0:13.9	about them.
0:14.9	We taught people that Margaret Thatcher was quite good.
0:16.6	She was a green pioneer that mother Teresa, not so good, a little bit cold in fact.
0:21.7	If you want to have your moral parameters kicked about, catch the new series of Evil Genius.
0:27.1	So to BBC Sounds and hit subscribe, but not in an aggressive way, otherwise once you're
0:31.4	deceased you become a subject and I will rip you to pieces.
0:34.1	Thank you for downloading the Friday Night Comedy Podcast from the BBC.
0:40.7	This week it's the now show.
0:43.0	Hello I'm Steve Punts and I'm Hugh Dennis with us at Christmas Corson, Sarah Baron,
0:53.6	Hugh Davis and Gemma Arasmith and this is The No Show.
1:00.6	Thank you so this week the government stepped up the fight against COVID-19.
1:14.3	The strategy moved from contained delay.
1:17.1	Next it might go from delay to lockdown.
1:19.4	If that fails the final option is to put pretty putel in charge of the response and hope
1:23.9	the virus quits.
1:27.1	Meanwhile the anti-virus budget was announced by the new and weirdly enthusiastic Chancellor
1:31.9	Rishisunak.
1:33.3	The budget was a fall on borrow and spend fest, including a massive 27 billion pounds for
1:38.6	roads.
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