Introducing: The Naked Week

Comedy of the Week

BBC

Comedy

4 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The Naked Week team are back to place satirical news-tariffs on current events with a mix of correspondents, guests and, occasionally, live animals.

This week we mourn the death of globalisation, take a tour of Keir's new theme park, and play a game of BBC Balance Local Elections Naked Week Joke Twister.

From The Skewer’s Jon Holmes and host Andrew Hunter Murray comes The Naked Week, a fresh way of dressing the week’s news in the altogether and parading it around for everyone to laugh at.

With award-winning writers and a crack team of contemporary satirists - and recorded in front of a live audience - The Naked Week delivers a topical news-nude straight to your ears.

Written by: Jon Holmes Katie Sayer Gareth Ceredig Sarah Dempster Jason Hazeley.

Investigations Team: Cat Neilan Louis Mian Freya Shaw Matt Brown

Guests: Freya Parker and Alicia Fitzgerald.

Production Team: Laura Grimshaw, Tony Churnside, Jerry Peal, Katie Sayer, Phoebe Butler.

Executive Producer: Philip Abrams Produced and Directed by Jon Holmes

An unusual production for BBC Radio 4

Transcript

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0:00.0	Why would anyone want to steal a toilet?
0:05.0	If they think they can get away with it, they'll get away with it.
0:08.0	But this isn't any old toilet.
0:11.0	This is a solid gold toilet, worth nearly five million pounds, stolen from a palace.
0:17.0	A solid gold toilet has been stolen.
0:20.0	Police are trying to flush the robbers out.
0:23.0	It's a tale of security failures, ruthless robbers and missing millions.
0:27.7	Crime next door, the golden toilet heist.
0:30.4	Listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:34.1	BBC Sounds, music, Radio, podcasts.
0:40.4	Hello and welcome to Comedy of the Week.
0:41.5	It's Andrew Hunter-Murray here.
0:52.3	If you're a fan of Comedy of the Week, then you can and should listen to BBC Radio 4's Friday Night Comedy, which features my show, The Naked Week, alongside Dead Ringers, the news quiz, and Too Long didn't read.
0:54.9	Here is the latest episode of The Naked Week to give you a taster. To hear more, just search for Friday Night Comedy on BBC Sounds.
1:13.3	Hello, I'm Andrew Hunter-Murray. Welcome to The Naked Week. I'm Andrew Hunter-Murray. Welcome to The Naked Week. I'm Andrew Hunter-Murie.
1:14.6	Welcome to The Naked Week.
1:19.5	Imagine Channel 4 News if Krishna Guru Murthy blinked first in a trade war with his own tie.
1:24.9	This week, after more tariff turbulence, you can criticize him all you like,
1:28.4	but at least the US president is bringing back long, lost words.
1:30.5	Old-fashioned term, but a beautiful term.
1:31.8	Eggs.
1:38.6	It's such an old-fashioned term, isn't it?
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