The Skewer
- Radio sketch show
- BBC Radio 4
- 2019 - 2024
- 89 episodes (11 series)
Topical comedy show from Jon Holmes using Radiophonic Workshop sounds.
- Continues tomorrow on Radio 4 at 11:15pm with Series 11, Episode 6
- Catch-up on Series 11, Episode 5
Key details
- Genre
- Sketch Show
- Broadcast
- 2019 - 2024
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Episodes
- 89 (1 pilot + 11 series)
- Star
- Jon Holmes
- Writers
- Jon Holmes, Phil Lindsey, Paul Kearney, Davian Dent, Mugger Harris, Dave Wol, Ash Williamson, Tony Churnside and more
- Producer
- Jon Holmes
- Company
An open-door topical show from the mind of broadcaster, producer and audio-fiddler Jon Holmes of Listen Against and The Now Show - with digital consultancy and audio support from the Technical Director of the relaunched Radiophonic Workshop. It's also a radio comedy access point for a new generation of satirists who don't write sketches, jokes and one liners, but instead channel their talents into playing around with sound.
Sketch-writing has long been the way into radio comedy but, for the new generation of satirists who don't put pen to paper and instead beaver away on laptops using self-taught skills to toy with the news-scape, The Skewer, with it's guerrilla approach to satire, is their new playground - bringing diverse voices together with soundscaping from a gardener, a call-centre worker and a supermarket delivery driver.
The sounds of The Skewer have been designed to be enhanced through headphones, attaching you to a late night drip of current events as they melt into your brain, evoking that feeling of drifting off but with the occasional uncomfortable sleep-twitch, as though you've accidentally stepped off a kerb.
Freeform, dreamlike, curious, scathing, The Skewer is the home of the new news jokers.
Catch-up
Additional details
- Also known as
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- The Halloween Skewer
- Production
- Studio
Website links
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Thursday 4th April 2019 at 11pm on BBC Radio 4
- Next repeats
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- Series 11, Episode 5: Tomorrow at 11:30pm on Radio 4 Extra
- Series 11, Episode 6: Wednesday 27th March at 11:30pm on Radio 4 Extra
- Most recent repeats
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- Wednesday 13th March 2024 at 11:30pm on Radio 4 Extra - Series 11, Episode 4
- Wednesday 6th March 2024 at 11:30pm on Radio 4 Extra - Series 11, Episode 3
- Wednesday 28th February 2024 at 11:30pm on Radio 4 Extra - Series 11, Episode 2