Newsjack
- Radio sketch show
- BBC Radio 4 Extra / BBC Radio 7
- 2009 - 2021
- 143 episodes (24 series)
Topical satirical sketch show on Radio 4 Extra. The programme had an 'open door' policy allowing anyone to submit material. Stars Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Angela Barnes, Nish Kumar, Romesh Ranganathan, Justin Edwards and more.
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Series 24, Episode 2
This week, we find out how people planning on getting round the wedding capactiy limits, how Pokemon's Ash and Pikachu are getting on after 25 years together, and we speak to the rugby Referee from Wales' win over England.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Thursday 4th March 2021
- Time
- 10:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Length
- 30 minutes
- Recorded
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- Wednesday 3rd March 2021, 19:00 at Zoom (Virtual)
Cast & crew
| Kiri Pritchard-McLean | Host / Presenter |
| Luke Kempner | Ensemble Actor |
| Nimisha Odedra | Ensemble Actor |
| Aurie Styla | Ensemble Actor |
| Danny Antrobus | Writer |
| Alex Buchanan | Writer |
| Alice Gregg | Writer |
| Simon Alcock | Writer |
| Sean Stokes | Writer |
| Will Adnams | Writer |
| Jack Kelly | Writer |
| Will Sebag-Montefiore (as William Sebag-Montefiore) | Writer |
| Amy Xander | Writer |
| Joseph Bates | Writer |
| Ian Smith | Writer |
| Ana Basu | Writer |
| Gareth Ceredig | Writer |
| Helena Langdon | Writer |
| Kemah Bob | Writer |
| Jamie Cooke | Writer |
| Jenny Dixon | Writer |
| Charlie Vero-Martin | Writer |
| Alexander Minto | Writer |
| Daisy Hall | Writer |
| Alexander Lambert | Writer |
| Tasha Dhanraj | Writer |
| Neal Doran | Writer |
| Paul Bovey | Writer |
| Scott Brunnet | Writer |
| Lucienne Cummings | Writer |
| Cody Dahler | Writer |
| Charlie Dunlop | Writer |
| Kathleen Hughes | Writer |
| Rajiv Karia | Writer |
| Hannah Platt | Writer |
| John Soff | Writer |
| Martin Zafar | Writer |
| Gemma Arrowsmith | Script Editor |
| Ken Cheng | Script Editor |
| Hayley Sterling | Producer |
| Gwyn Rhys Davies | Producer |
Press
Pokemon's 25th anniversary celebrated on BBC's Newsjack
The two-minute sketch has been made available on Newsjack's Twitter feed, with Ash and Pikachu voiced by comedians Luke Kempner and Nimisha Odedra. Newsjack is unusual in that it allows unsolicited writers to submit comedy material. So if you've come up with a brilliant idea for a sketch involving, say, a well-known British politician being given a Death Note, you know where to send it.
Andrew Osmond, Anime News Network, 8th March 2021