The Naked Week: Ep 3. Benefits, Borders, and a game of Truss or Towers.

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 apply for a job in the parliamentary Work and Pensions office, play a game of 'Liz Truss or new ride at Alton Towers', and make a military incursion into Ambridge to steal territory from The Archers.

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 HolmesKatie SayerGareth CeredigSarah DempsterJason Hazeley

Investigations Team:Cat NeilanLouis MianFreya ShawMatt Brown

Guests: Rubina Pabani, Alice Stapleton.

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

Executive Producer: Philip AbramsProduced and Directed by Jon Holmes

An unusual production for BBC Radio 4.

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• No. of episodes: 256
• Latest episode: 2025-06-06
• Comedy

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