BBC Radio 4

The Skewer

Comedy EN ↓ 87 episodes

A twisted comedy treat. Jon Holmes brings you the week's biggest stories like you've never heard them before. The news remixed. Welcome to The Skewer. Headphones on. The multi-award winning, 'dizzying, dazzling, haunting and moving' satirical comedy returns to twist itself into these turbulent times. With contributions from brand new and diverse audio talent, The Skewer is the sound the abyss makes as it stares back at you through your ears. 'A kind of concept album made of music and news. There's simply nothing else like it.' AWARDSNew York Festival 2020Audio Production Awards 2020British Pod...

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BBC Radio 4

Category

Comedy

Podcast website

www.bbc.co.uk

Latest episode

May 20, 2026

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Episodes

Episode 3 21.04.2022

Jon Holmes remixes the news. This week - a bit like Uncle Vernon in Harry Potter, Boris's letterbox is besieged by owls bearing police FPNs, we Escape To The War Torn Country, and ask 'What Is A Woman?' An Unusual production for BBC Radio 4

Episode 2 14.04.2022

Jon Holmes's The Skewer returns to twist itself into current affairs. This week - Hashtag Partygate, Kicking Against The Pickles, You've Got A Friend In Prince Charles, and Boris is (Steven) Toast (of Westminster). An Unusual production for BBC Radio 4

Episode 1 07.04.2022

Jon Holmes's multi-award-winning The Skewer returns to twist itself into current affairs. This week - The Skewer: White-warshing, Bob The Qatar Builder, Lad's Army, the musical Westminster Side Story, and what happens when you say Rishi Sunak's name five times into a mirror. An Unusual production for BBC Radio 4

Episode 7 16.12.2021

Jon Holmes remixes the news into a disturbing, satirical, current affairs concept album. This week - The Man Who Wasn't There, The Succession of Boris, and The Matrix: Restrictions. An Unusual production for BBC Radio 4

Episode 6 09.12.2021

Jon Holmes's The Skewer returns to twist itself into current affairs. This week, a Government dead cat, a partridge in a pear tree, and a par-ty in Number 10. Plus Boris's Christmas (Gas) Lights, and a game of Chinese Tennis. An Unusual production for BBC Radio 4

Episode 5 02.12.2021

Jon Holmes's The Skewer returns to twist itself into current affairs. This week - Omicron is Coming, and Nadine Dorries is on Mastermind with a specialist subject of 'Nothing'. An Unusual production for BBC Radio 4

Episode 4 25.11.2021

A twisted comedy treat. This week, Adele has a gunfight with Samuel L Jackson, Limp Bizkit tackle food poverty, and a certain cartoon pig is very rude to the Prime Minister.

Episode 3 18.11.2021

Your new news fix. Jon Holmes's The Skewer returns to twist itself into current affairs.

Episode 2 11.11.2021

Your new news fix. Jon Holmes's The Skewer returns to twist itself into current affairs.

Episode 1 04.11.2021

Fresh from winning in three categories at the 2021 New York Festival Awards, Jon Holmes returns with his multi-award winning satirical soundscape The Skewer, as it twists itself into the news like a concept album of current affairs. It's your new news fix. "Its sharpness left me slack-jawed." The Times "A surreal flow of snippets - news and views, music and memories - melded into a huge orchestral...

Episode 8 22.07.2021

Jon Holmes's multi-award winning The Skewer twists itself into - and remixes - the news. This week, Suicide Squad Freedom Day and Deadpool reads a CBeebies bedtime story. The multi-award winning, 'dizzying, dazzling, haunting and moving' satirical comedy returns to twist itself into these turbulent times. With contributions from brand new and diverse audio talent, The Skewer is the sound the abyss...

Episode 7 15.07.2021

The week’s biggest stories like you’ve never heard them before. The news, remixed as a twisted comedy treat. Jon Holmes presents the multi-award winning The Skewer. Headphones on. This week - Boris The Gambler, and England’s footballers meet Thanos. The multi-award winning, 'dizzying, dazzling, haunting and moving' satirical comedy returns to twist itself into these turbulent times. With contribut...

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