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Tᴏɴʏ Cʜᴜʀɴsɪᴅᴇ @tonychurnside.bsky.social · 20h

On #TheSkewer this week, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Torys, Actually Romantic Farage and Trump is the Greatest MotherF*cker you’re ever gonna meet listen on 🎧 at 11:15pm on @BBCr4 & @BBCSounds. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - The Skewer, Series 14, Episode 5: It's Actually Romantic

Jon Holmes remixes the news into satirical shapes and sounds.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Tᴏɴʏ Cʜᴜʀɴsɪᴅᴇ @tonychurnside.bsky.social · 5d

Not this week. I think that’s my ever crunching of the credits to fit them into an even number of musical beats!

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Tᴏɴʏ Cʜᴜʀɴsɪᴅᴇ @tonychurnside.bsky.social · 7d

On #TheSkewer tonight we Reform Labour into something more popular, make Trump into a Peacemaker and tear your soul apart! Liston on @BBCRadio4 @ @BBCSounds from 11:15pm tonight. Use 🎧. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - The Skewer, Series 14, Ep 4: How to Be PopuLABOUR.

Jon Holmes remixes the news into satirically shapes and sounds.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Tᴏɴʏ Cʜᴜʀɴsɪᴅᴇ @tonychurnside.bsky.social · 14d

On BBC Sounds now…

Tᴏɴʏ Cʜᴜʀɴsɪᴅᴇ @tonychurnside.bsky.social · 14d

On #TheSkewer tonight The state of Palestine is recognised, we shine a light on what PeaDo in the Shadows & Reform protect our women & girls & swans. On @BBCRadio4 and @BBCSounds at 11:15pm. Grab your 🎧 & go & listen. It’s Supercalifragilisticexpibraggadocious www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - The Skewer, Series 14, Ep 3: Supercalifragilisticexpibraggadocious

Jon Holmes remixes the news into satirically shaped sounds.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Tᴏɴʏ Cʜᴜʀɴsɪᴅᴇ @tonychurnside.bsky.social · 14d

On #TheSkewer tonight The state of Palestine is recognised, we shine a light on what PeaDo in the Shadows & Reform protect our women & girls & swans. On @BBCRadio4 and @BBCSounds at 11:15pm. Grab your 🎧 & go & listen. It’s Supercalifragilisticexpibraggadocious www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - The Skewer, Series 14, Ep 3: Supercalifragilisticexpibraggadocious

Jon Holmes remixes the news into satirically shaped sounds.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Tᴏɴʏ Cʜᴜʀɴsɪᴅᴇ @tonychurnside.bsky.social · 21d

Well I’m glad that, unlike in the US, we have a strong history of freedom of speech in this country, otherwise it might be #TheSkewer that was taken off air!

Tᴏɴʏ Cʜᴜʀɴsɪᴅᴇ @tonychurnside.bsky.social · 21d

On #TheSkewer this week, we highlight Housing Hypocrisy, join Nigel’s House Partyand more innuendo than you can shake your stick at in Back, Sack and Crack. On @BBCRadio4 & @BBCSounds at 11:15pm. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - The Skewer, Series 14, Episode 2 - Back, Sack and Crack, and An American Idiot Abroad

Jon Holmes remixes the news. This week, Back, Sack and Crack and An American Idiot Abroad.

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Tᴏɴʏ Cʜᴜʀɴsɪᴅᴇ @tonychurnside.bsky.social · 21d

On #TheSkewer this week, we highlight Housing Hypocrisy, join Nigel’s House Partyand more innuendo than you can shake your stick at in Back, Sack and Crack. On @BBCRadio4 & @BBCSounds at 11:15pm. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - The Skewer, Series 14, Episode 2 - Back, Sack and Crack, and An American Idiot Abroad

Jon Holmes remixes the news. This week, Back, Sack and Crack and An American Idiot Abroad.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Tᴏɴʏ Cʜᴜʀɴsɪᴅᴇ @tonychurnside.bsky.social · 28d

Starting now on Radio4 t.co/Elq1a8Q2gN

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002j5wk

t.co

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Tᴏɴʏ Cʜᴜʀɴsɪᴅᴇ @tonychurnside.bsky.social · Aug 21

Sounds very scammy. Either way it’s better to be safe than sorry.

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Tᴏɴʏ Cʜᴜʀɴsɪᴅᴇ @tonychurnside.bsky.social · Aug 17

I try to check before I sign up that there’s not sludge to complicate cancelling. Failed with Modern Milkman. Cancelling is a real pain.

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Tᴏɴʏ Cʜᴜʀɴsɪᴅᴇ @tonychurnside.bsky.social · Jul 4

We’re doing a DJ Set at Crossed Wires Festival this Sunday. Come and have a cocktail while we twist the news into some of that popular music the kids are all talking about. #TheSkewer crossedwires.live/podcast/afte...

After Party: The Skewer DJ Set — Crossed Wires Festival 2025

Jon Holmes and Tony Churnside from Radio 4’s multi-award-winning satire mix music with news in an exclusive bespoke DJ set. Expect cocktails by Public, freshly poured Guinness and food trucks from Pea...

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Tᴏɴʏ Cʜᴜʀɴsɪᴅᴇ @tonychurnside.bsky.social · Jun 23

Speak for yourself! We welcome our birdbrain overlords.

Tᴏɴʏ Cʜᴜʀɴsɪᴅᴇ @tonychurnside.bsky.social · Jun 19

“Video distributor thinks video is the future of podcasting” shock. Also very telling that he considers podcasts just recordings of conversations.

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Tᴏɴʏ Cʜᴜʀɴsɪᴅᴇ @tonychurnside.bsky.social · Jun 14

I mixed Dead Ringers yesterday. The 1st episode of this programme I’ve made, but also the 1st episode of the programme made since its creator, Bill Dare passed away earlier this year. It’s really sad he’s gone but I hope we’ve made a show he’d have been pleased with.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

BBC Sounds - Dead Ringers - Available Episodes

Listen to the latest episodes of Dead Ringers on BBC Sounds.

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Tᴏɴʏ Cʜᴜʀɴsɪᴅᴇ @tonychurnside.bsky.social · May 31

Jon Harvey celebrates 50 years since Jaws first surfaced with a hilarious history of shark fiction.

Into the Sharkiverse

📅 7th June
⏲️ 20:00
🎧 @BBCRadio4

Silly fact I discovered during the making of this programme - Apple Music has added lyrics to the Jaws theme…

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Tᴏɴʏ Cʜᴜʀɴsɪᴅᴇ @tonychurnside.bsky.social · May 25

“Exposition Impossible: The Final Reckoning” #AmIRight?

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Mike Cooper @mikecooperrp.bsky.social · May 24

If you just saw a middle-aged man walking along with what may have appeared to be tears in his eyes, blame @jonholmes.bsky.social and his team for the incredibly powerful ending to the week's #TheSkewer. Christ, that got me.

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Tᴏɴʏ Cʜᴜʀɴsɪᴅᴇ @tonychurnside.bsky.social · May 10

Do I know anyone on here who knows about building gaming PCs? My son wants to building one and neither of us have a clue.

Tᴏɴʏ Cʜᴜʀɴsɪᴅᴇ @tonychurnside.bsky.social · May 8

Yeah. Thought the guy who gets it shouldn’t really want it.

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Peter Reavill @peterreavill.bsky.social · May 8

As the weeks go by the skewer seems to be voicing my internal monologue processing the news - absolute core listening to remedy the bilge that the news cycle throws out. If only all BBC news was this considered.

Well done @jonholmes.bsky.social and his excellent

The Skewer - Series 13 - Alca-Trump Prison, Reform the Children, and Nosfaragetu - BBC Sounds

Jon Holmes brings you the week's biggest stories like you've never heard them before.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Tᴏɴʏ Cʜᴜʀɴsɪᴅᴇ @tonychurnside.bsky.social · May 7

On #TheSkewer tonight, a visit from Nosfaragetu, an escape from Alcatrump and a VEform party. Plus I turn the programme off and on again. On @BBCRadio4 and @BBCSounds at 11:15pm. Use 🎧 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - The Skewer, Series 13, Alca-Trump Prison, Reform the Children, and Nosfaragetu

Jon Holmes brings you the week's biggest stories like you've never heard them before.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Tᴏɴʏ Cʜᴜʀɴsɪᴅᴇ @tonychurnside.bsky.social · Apr 30

And we have another episode of #TheSkewer coming up on BBC Radio 4 at 11:15pm tonight… www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - The Skewer, Series 13, Elections, 100 Days of Trump, and Trans Labyrinth

The news remixed. This week - Elections, 100 Days of Trump, and Trans Labyrinth.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Tᴏɴʏ Cʜᴜʀɴsɪᴅᴇ @tonychurnside.bsky.social · Apr 30

Jon Holmes, Adam Parry and I made this video for Pancreatic Cancer UK… www.pancreaticcancer.org.uk/news-and-blo...

Something is Missing

We’ve launched a powerful parody film trailer, ‘Something is Missing’, to shine a spotlight on pancreatic cancer and the need for early detection.

www.pancreaticcancer.org.uk

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Jon Holmes @jonholmes.bsky.social · Apr 23

New #TheSkewer enters the wrong broadcasting toilet at 11.15pm BBC Radio 4. The week’s news all remixed up the whatnot. Also (obvs) @bbcsounds.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - The Skewer, Series 13, Gender, Easter, and The Dead Pope's Society.

The week's news - satirically remixed. This week: The wrong toilets and a dead Pope.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Pravin Gorajala @pravg.bsky.social · Apr 17

So good to have this back. Easily the best thing on radio by a distance! #TheSkewer

Jon Holmes @jonholmes.bsky.social · Apr 16

Man of Steel and Art of the Deal - a BRAND NEW series of #TheSkewer returns @bbcradio4 tonight at 11.15pm. The week’s news mashed up as a (multi-award-winning) current affairs comedy concept album. Also @bbcsounds.bsky.social at your leisure. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - The Skewer, Series 13, Man of Steel and Art of the Deal

The week's news - remixed. This week Charlie XCX's Trump Bump and Starmer: Man of Steel.

www.bbc.co.uk

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