![The Skewer. Credit: Unusual Productions The Skewer. Credit: Unusual Productions](https://cdn.comedy.co.uk/images/library/comedies/300x200/t/the_skewer_sunak.jpg)
The Skewer
- Radio sketch show
- BBC Radio 4
- 2019 - 2024
- 98 episodes (12 series)
Topical comedy show from Jon Holmes using Radiophonic Workshop sounds.
- Returns on Wednesday 11th September on Radio 4 at 11:15pm with Series 12, Episode 1
Episode menu
The Halloween Skewer
Further details
Fittingly for Halloween - Brexit or Brexit be damned - The Skewer is back to haunt your ears by pushing the boundaries of satirical radio into the murky depths.
A platform for diverse new talent, this is topical satire like you've never heard it before. Produced and curated by Jon Holmes, The Skewer is a new 'open-door' comedy for a fresh generation of satirists who don't write sketches, jokes and one liners, but instead channel their talents into playing around with sound.
You can listen on your radio conventionally, but the soundscapes of The Skewer have been designed to enhance listeners' experience 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.
The Skewer toys with the newsscape and all of the noises it makes. Freeform, dreamlike, curious, scathing - The Skewer is the home of the new news jokers.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Thursday 31st October 2019
- Time
- 11pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
Jon Holmes | Writer |
Phil Lindsey | Writer |
Paul Kearney | Writer |
Davian Dent | Writer |
Mugger Harris | Writer |
Dave Wol | Writer |
Ash Williamson | Writer |
Tony Churnside | Writer |
Beth Granville | Writer (Additional Material) |
Mike Gilyatt | Writer (Additional Material) |
Stretchy's Studio | Writer (Additional Material) |
Jon Holmes | Producer |