The Skewer

Jon Holmes's comedy current affairs concept album remixes news into award-winning satirical shapes. This week - He Who Shall Not Be Named (at the time of writing), George Osbourne's Big Day, Do Ray Me Kier, and Taliban Barbie. Created and produced by Jon HolmesAn unusual production for BBC Radio 4

Jon Holmes's comedy current affairs concept album remixes the news into award-winning satirical shapes. This week- Jacob Rees Mogwai, My Sweet KGB Lord, and It's A Wonderful Nige.An unusual production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds

Jon Holmes's comedy current affairs concept album remixes news into award winning satirical shapes. This week - Apocalypse Nyet, a Succession of sewage, and oh, those Russians... Creator and Producer: Jon Holmes Technicals: Tony Churnside An unusual production for BBC Radio 4

Jon Holmes's comedy current affairs concept album returns for a brand new series to remix the news into multi award-winning noise shapes. This week: Satan's peerages, submarines, and an Even Flow. An unusual production for BBC Radio 4

Jon Holmes's award-winning satire twists itself into current affairs. This week - Laughing Gas Policeman, Death Wish Starmer, and Inflation Goes Up To 11. Producer: Jon HolmesAn unusual production for BBC Radio 4

Jon Holmes's multi-award winning satire twists itself into current affairs. This week - Boris on trial in A Few Bad Men, Eyes in the Wires, and Robot Culture Wars. Producer; Jon HolmesAn unusual production for BBC Radio 4

Jon Holmes' award-winning satire twists itself into current affairs. This week - PoliceMen Behaving Badly, Suella Braverman Thinks of a Number with Johnny Ball, and Gary, Gary, Gary.Producer: Jon HolmesAn unusual production for BBC Radio 4

Jon Holmes's The Skewer twists itself into current affairs. This week - Refugee Regatta, Rogue Royal Landlords, and the fable of The Frog and the Journalist. Producer: Jon HolmesAn unusual production for BBC Radio 4

Jon Holmes's multi-award-winning The Skewer returns to twist itself into current affairs. This week - Attack of the Missing Tomatoes, the Book of Starmer, and the Tale of Shamima Puddleduck.Producer: Jon HolmesAn unusual production for BBC Radio 4

Jon Holmes's multi-award-winning The Skewer returns to twist itself into current affairs. This week - a dalliance with Dahl, Deal or No Northern Ireland Deal, Andrew Tate Modern, and GI Joe Biden.An unusual production for BBC Radio 4

Jon Holmes's multi-award-winning The Skewer returns to twist itself into current affairs. This week - a Sturgeon leaps, it's Balloondependence Day, and labour leader Mr Cellophane. Produced by Jon Holmes.An unusual production for BBC Radio 4

Jon Holmes's multi-award-winning The Skewer returns to twist itself into current affairs. This week: SAS Rogue Gas Fitters, Liz Truss is in her Happy Valley, and Dominic Raab channels his inner Gripper Stebson from Grange Hill. Produced by Jon Holmes.The Skewer is an unusual production.

Jon Holmes' multi-award-winning The Skewer twists itself into the past, as it sets about dismantling 100 Years of the BBC. The archive is plundered, the BBC's history is revisited, and it's all cut up and smashed about via The Skewer's no-holds-barred and unforgiving approach.An unusual production for BBC Radio 4

Jon Holmes's multi-award-winning satire. This week - the Rishi Sunak Memory Wipe, Tory Cabinet Swap Shop, and The Cost of Living Witch Farm.An unusual production for BBC Radio 4

Jon Holmes's multi award-winning satire returns to twist itself into current affairs like a comedy concept album made of news. . This week - Kwarsimodo, Jeremy Swearword, and Liz Truss: A Knives Out MysteryAn unusual production for BBC Radio 4

Jon Holmes mashes the news into an award winning satirical comedy concept album. This week - Burning Bridges, Call The Striking Midwife, and Dark, Dark Streets.An unusual production for BBC Radio 4

From Jon Holmes and his crack team of sound-wizards comes a satirical current affairs concept album that twists itself into the news. This week - U Turns, Peaky Tories, and Are You Local Radio?An unusual production for BBC Radio 4

Jon Holmes's multi-award-winning Skewer continues to twist itself into current affairs. This week - One Flew Over The Keir-coo's Nest, Dirty Chess, and a defibrillated pound.An unusual production for BBC Radio 4

Jon Holmes's multi-award-winning satire twists itself into all the media noise surrounding the death of HM The Queen. This episode won Gold for Best Comedy and Silver in the Special Award following the death of HM The Queen at the 2023 Radio Academy ARIA Awards,An unusual production for BBC Radio 4

The multi award-winning satirical soundscape returns as Jon Holmes and his crack team of sound wizards remix the news into odd, haunting shapes. This week: Liz Truss: She Hulk, Through The Trumphole, and We Are Swearword Swearword. An unusual production for BBC Radio 4

Jon Holmes remixes news into haunting shapes. This week, 50 Shades of Sue Gray, a greased piglet, and I'd rather have a bowl of Monkeypox.An Unusual production for BBC Radio 4

Jon Holmes remixes the news into twisted audio shapes. This week: Bears, protocols, horsemen. And The Little Mermaid finds Rebekah Vardy's agent's phone at the bottom of the sea.

Jon Holmes remixes the news into the award-winning The Skewer. This week Starmer's Survival, Black Rod enters, Doctor Who vs The Racists, Ambient Spaghetti, and Things Go Backwards.An Unusual production for BBC Radio 4

Jon Holmes remixes the news with The Skewer. This week, Tractor Porn, The Legend of The Protective Care Home Ring and Dolphins At War.An Unusual production for BBC Radio 4

Jon Holmes's The Skewer remixes the news into a satirical soundtrack This week - The Terrors of the Earth, Tom Cruise v Alan Titchmarsh, and a questionable pint of Starmerpramen.An Unusual production for BBC Radio 4

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 piece of compelling originality. THE SKEWER is satire at its cleverest, both biting and beautiful. If you could listen to a Francis Bacon painting, this is what it would sound like.”“A unique celebration of diversity in terms of views, contributors, and attitude. The Skewer is a masterpiece that gives voice to the unheard”. AWARDS The Skewer wins in 3 categories at the 2021 New York Festival Awards: Comedy, Sound Art, and Innovation. The Skewer wins Gold (Best Radio Podcast) at the 2021 British Podcast Awards The Skewer wins Gold (Best Comedy Producer) at the 2021 Audio Production Awards The Skewer wins Gold (Best Comedy) and Silver (Best New Show) at the 2021 Radio Academy Awards, the #UKArias The Skewer wins Gold for Best Comedy at the 2021 BBC Audio & Drama Awards The Skewer wins Gold at the New York Radio Festival in 2020. The Skewer wins Silver at the 2020 Podcast Awards. The Skewer wins Bronze (Best Sound Design) at the 2020 Audio Production Awards The Skewer is nominated for a 2020 Chortle Award ('Radio Comedy') The Skewer pilot (BBC Radio 4 - April 2019) won the 'Best Comedy Producer' Silver award at the 2019 Audio Production Awards. The Halloween Skewer (BBC Radio 4 - October 2019) is nominated in two categories at the 2020 BBC Audio Drama Awards: 'Best Comedy' and 'Best Use of Sound'.

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 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.'AWARDS Gold Winner 2021 Radio Academy Awards (Best Comedy) Silver Winner 2021 Radio Academy Awards (Best New Show) Gold Winner British Podcast Awards 2021 Gold Winner BBC Audio and Drama Awards 2021 Gold Winner 2020 New York Festival Gold Winner 2020Audio Production Awards British Podcast Awards 2020 Winner Audio Production Awards 2019 Winner Winner (Sound Design) Audio Production Awards 2020 BBC Radio and Music Awards 2020 Nominee Chortle Awards Nominee 2020Producer: Jon Holmes An Unusual production for BBC Radio 4

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 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.'AWARDS Gold Winner 2021 Radio Academy Awards (Best Comedy) Gold Winner 2021 The British Podcast Awards (Best Radio Podcast) Silver Winner 2021 Radio Academy Awards (Best New Show) BBC Audio and Drama Awards 2021 Gold winner British Podcast Awards 2021 Nominee New York Festival Gold Winner 2020 Audio Production Awards Gold Winner 2020 British Podcast Awards 2020 Winner Audio Production Awards 2019 Winner Winner (Sound Design) Audio Production Awards 2020 BBC Radio and Music Awards 2020 Nominee Chortle Awards Nominee 2020Producer: Jon Holmes An Unusual production for BBC Radio 4

The week’s biggest stories like you’ve never heard them before. The news, remixed into a satirical river of sound. Jon Holmes presents the multi-award winning The Skewer. Headphones on.This week - Freedom Day, Wacky Space Races, and William and Harry take on The Krays. 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.'AWARDS Gold Winner 2021 Radio Academy Awards (Best Comedy) Silver Winner 2021 Radio Academy Awards (Best New Show) BBC Audio and Drama Awards 2021 Gold winner British Podcast Awards 2021 Nominee New York Festival Gold Winner 2020 Audio Production Awards Gold Winner 2020 British Podcast Awards 2020 Winner Audio Production Awards 2019 Winner Winner (Sound Design) Audio Production Awards 2020 BBC Radio and Music Awards 2020 Nominee Chortle Awards Nominee 2020Producer: Jon Holmes An Unusual production for BBC Radio 4

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 - Hancock’s Half Hour, Fatal Matt-action, and The Death of Stalin – sorry – Starmer.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.'AWARDS Gold Winner 2021 Radio Academy Awards (Best Comedy) Silver Winner 2021 Radio Academy Awards (Best New Show) BBC Audio and Drama Awards 2021 Gold winner British Podcast Awards 2021 Nominee New York Festival Gold Winner 2020 Audio Production Awards Gold Winner 2020 British Podcast Awards 2020 Winner Audio Production Awards 2019 Winner Winner (Sound Design) Audio Production Awards 2020 BBC Radio and Music Awards 2020 Nominee Chortle Awards Nominee 2020Producer: Jon Holmes An Unusual production for BBC Radio 4

The news - twisted and remixed. Jon Holmes presents the multi-award winning The Skewer. Headphones on. This week - Five Go Racially Abusing, and A Beef With UK Farmers 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.'AWARDS Gold Winner 2021 Radio Academy Awards (Best Comedy) Silver Winner 2021 Radio Academy Awards (Best New Show) BBC Audio and Drama Awards 2021 Gold winner British Podcast Awards 2021 Nominee New York Festival Gold Winner 2020 Audio Production Awards Gold Winner 2020 British Podcast Awards 2020 Winner Audio Production Awards 2019 Winner Winner (Sound Design) Audio Production Awards 2020 BBC Radio and Music Awards 2020 Nominee Chortle Awards Nominee 2020Producer: Jon Holmes An Unusual production for BBC Radio 4

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: the G7 meets Se7en, Alan Partridge joins GB News, and The Sweeney interview Matt Hancock. 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.'AWARDS Gold Winner 2021 Radio Academy Awards (Best Comedy) Silver Winner 2021 Radio Academy Awards (Best New Show) BBC Audio and Drama Awards 2021 Gold winner British Podcast Awards 2021 Nominee New York Festival Gold Winner 2020 Audio Production Awards Gold Winner 2020 British Podcast Awards 2020 Winner Audio Production Awards 2019 Winner Winner (Sound Design) Audio Production Awards 2020 BBC Radio and Music Awards 2020 Nominee Chortle Awards Nominee 2020Producer: Jon Holmes An Unusual production for BBC Radio 4

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 - a footballer’s BLM knees up, no-one likes traffic lights, and In Liz We (Don’t) Truss.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.'AWARDS Gold Winner 2021 Radio Academy Awards (Best Comedy) Silver Winner 2021 Radio Academy Awards (Best New Show) BBC Audio and Drama Awards 2021 Gold winner British Podcast Awards 2021 Nominee New York Festival Gold Winner 2020 Audio Production Awards Gold Winner 2020 British Podcast Awards 2020 Winner Audio Production Awards 2019 Winner Winner (Sound Design) Audio Production Awards 2020 BBC Radio and Music Awards 2020 Nominee Chortle Awards Nominee 2020Producer: Jon Holmes An Unusual production for BBC Radio 4

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 - Martin Bashir interviews Prince Andrew, a Tory Friends Reunion, and Dominic Cummings’ dragon burns it all to the ground. 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.'AWARDS Gold Winner 2021 Radio Academy Awards (Best Comedy) Silver Winner 2021 Radio Academy Awards (Best New Show) BBC Audio and Drama Awards 2021 Gold winner British Podcast Awards 2021 Nominee New York Festival Gold Winner 2020 Audio Production Awards Gold Winner 2020 British Podcast Awards 2020 Winner Audio Production Awards 2019 Winner Winner (Sound Design) Audio Production Awards 2020 BBC Radio and Music Awards 2020 Nominee Chortle Awards Nominee 2020Producer: Jon Holmes An unusual production for BBC Radio 4