Vicki Barker
speaker
765 appearances
133 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 14 Sep
Vicki Barker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 107 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 20.
Appearances
For NPR News, I'm Vicki Barker in London.
British viewers would have instantly recognized their charisma-challenged Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, in the opening skit.
Also watching, British TV reviewers pens poised.
The Times of London's verdict, quote, Britain is funny, but Saturday Night Live UK is not.
Yet, its reviewer wants to see more understated British humor in future installments.
But the Sunday Telegraph calls the show, quote, a shockingly competent spinoff, untroubled by either annoying Americanisms or annoying Americans.
And to the observer, it didn't fail and it could have been a lot worse.
For NPR News, I'm Vicki Barker in London.
The Iran war has already pushed up gas prices and mortgage rates in Britain, with nearly 1,000 home loan products pulled off the market.
And fuel and fertilizer prices are surging, just as farmers are planting spring crops.
Tom Bradshaw, president of the National Farmers Union, warning the BBC.
The war has reignited Britain's cost of living crisis just ahead of local elections in early May, when Keir Starmer's struggling Labour Party had been hoping to emphasize the improving economy.
For NPR News, I'm Vicki Barker in London.
The world is rough out there at the moment, so it's really good times to laugh.
And we are creating, hopefully, something very special with an amazing cast and amazing team of writers.
Annie Lister, nicknamed Gentleman Jack, wore masculine attire and wooed a series of women in her lifetime.
Seductions she described in coded diaries, which she hid behind a wooden panel in her Yorkshire home.
Choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa says it was a challenge training female ballerinas to dance like the masculine Annie.
After its world premiere in Leeds, the Northern Ballet production of Gentleman Jack will tour the UK.
For NPR News, I'm Vicki Barker in London.
Showing 441–460 of 765 · page 23 of 39
← Previous
Next →