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Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

The Now Show - 5th April

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

BBC

Comedy

4.213.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical stand-up and sketches. Starring Jon Holmes on animals making headlines, Angela Barnes on theft and an original song from Jonny & the Baptists. With voices from Ed Jones and Róisín O’Mahony.

The show was written by the cast with additional material from Tasha Dhanraj, Mike Shepard, Alex Bertulis-Fernandes and Peter Tellouche.

Producer: Sasha Bobak Executive Producer: Pete Strauss Production Coordinator: Caroline Barlow

A BBC Studios Production for Radio 4.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Before you listen to this BBC podcast I'd like to introduce myself. My name's

0:04.0

Stevie Middleton and I'm a BBC Commissioner for a load of sport

0:07.5

podcasts. I'm lucky to do that at the BBC because I get to work with leading

0:11.1

journalists, experienced pundits and the biggest

0:13.3

sports stars. Together we bring you untold stories and fascinating insights

0:17.4

straight from the player's mouth. But the best thing about doing this at the BBC is

0:22.0

our unique access to the sporting world.

0:25.0

What that means is that we can bring you podcasts that create a real connection to

0:28.9

dedicated sports fans across the UK.

0:31.5

So if you like this podcast, head over to BBC Sounds where you'll find plenty more.

0:35.2

BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. costs. Hello, I'm Steve Punth.

0:45.0

And I'm Key Dennis.

0:47.0

With us, John Holmes, Angela Barnes, Ed Jones, Roshin Imani and Johnny and the Baptists.

0:51.6

And this is

0:52.8

the Nal Shawoo! Thank you very much. So it was April Fool's Day last Monday and one local

1:11.3

radio station was even fooled into thinking Rishi Sunak might

1:14.6

tell them when the election was going to be so they asked him and his response

1:19.0

was...

1:21.0

Of course no. This was fair enough because the thing was it was actually quite hard to tell the April

1:28.4

fools from the genuine news this week.

1:30.6

For example, is it actually true that after the record-breaking rainfall of the last 18 months

1:35.4

that we're likely to get hosepipe bands this summer?

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