The Skewer

5. This Charming Mandelson

04 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Mandelson meets The Smiths, Sleeping Beauty is inappropriately awoken by a former Prince, and a Chinese spider welcomes a British fly.The multi-...

4. The Jaws of Andy Burnham

28 Jan 2026

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Rylan takes Keir Starmer dating naked, Trump is an Agent of Chaos, Putin has a job interview, and we open the jaws of Andy Burnham.The four-time Gold ...

3. Greenland, Traitors, and Trump

21 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Trump vs The World, Jenrick The Secret Traitor, No Way Nobel, and Peace Board Assemble! The four-time Gold Comedy winner at the Radio Acade...

2. ICE, ICE, baby

14 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The four-time Gold Comedy winner at the Radio Academy Awards returns as Jon Holmes mashes up news with pop-culture into a current affairs comedy conce...

1. There are Stranger Things...

07 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The four-time Gold Comedy winner at the Radio Academy Awards returns as Jon Holmes mashes up news with pop-culture into a current affairs comedy conce...

Ep 5 - It's Actually Romantic

08 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The four-time Gold Comedy winner at the Radio Academy Awards returns as Jon Holmes remixes the news into the current affairs comedy concept album wher...

Ep 4 - How to Be PopuLABOUR.

01 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The four-time Gold Comedy winner at the Radio Academy Awards returns as Jon Holmes remixes the news into the current affairs comedy concept album wher...

Ep 3 - Supercalifragilisticexpibraggadocious

24 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The four-time Gold Comedy winner at the Radio Academy Awards returns as Jon Holmes remixes the news into the current affairs comedy concept album wher...

Ep 2 - Back, Sack and Crack, and An American Idiot Abroad

17 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The four-time Gold Comedy winner at the Radio Academy Awards returns as Jon Holmes remixes the news into the current affairs comedy concept album wher...

Ep 1 - Jet 2 Migrant Holidays, The Magic Patriotic Roundabout, and a Putin Loop

10 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The four-time Gold Comedy winner at the Radio Academy Awards returns as Jon Holmes remixes the news into the current affairs comedy concept album wher...

Liability Lineker and The Eurovision Fishing Rights Contest.

21 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Fresh from winning a Best Comedy Award at the Radio Academy Awards for the sixth time, Jon Holmes remixes the news into a satirical current affairs co...

Starmer Turns Right, and a Mission from God.

14 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jon Holmes remixes the news into a satirical current affairs comedy concept album. News meets popular culture in a multi-award-winning satirical mash ...

Alca-Trump Prison, Reform the Children, and Nosfaragetu

07 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jon Holmes remixes the news into a current affairs comedy concept album. News meets popular culture in a multi-award-winning satirical mash up. This w...

Elections, 100 Days of Trump, and Trans Labyrinth

30 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jon Holmes remixes the news into a current affairs comedy concept album. News meets popular culture in a multi-award-winning satirical mash up. This w...

Gender, Easter, and The Dead Pope's Society.

23 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jon Holmes remixes the news into a current affairs comedy concept album. News meets popular culture in a multi-award-winning satirical mash up. This w...

Man of Steel and Art of the Deal

17 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jon Holmes remixes the news into a current affairs comedy concept album. News meets popular culture in a multi-award-winning mash up. This week: Charl...

Episode 8

30 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The week’s biggest stories like you’ve never heard them before. Jon Holmes remixes the news into a satirical concept album.This week - Budget, Blu...

Episode 7

23 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The week’s biggest stories like you’ve never heard them before. Jon Holmes remixes the news into a satirical concept album. This week - Hamas and ...

Episode 6

16 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The week’s biggest stories like you’ve never heard them before. Jon Holmes remixes the news into a satirical concept album. This week: The Economy...

Episode 5

09 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The week’s biggest stories like you’ve never heard them before. The news remixed into a satirical comedy concept album.Jon Holmes presents the mul...

Episode 4

02 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The week’s biggest stories like you’ve never heard them before. The news remixed into a satirical comedy concept album. This week - Jo-Keir: Folie...

Episode 3

25 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The week’s biggest stories like you’ve never heard them before. The news remixed into a satirical concept album. This week, Labour Sausage Party a...

Episode 2

18 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The week’s biggest stories like you’ve never heard them before. The news remixed into a satirical comedy concept album. This week: Strictly Come B...

Episode 1

11 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The week’s biggest stories like you’ve never heard them before. The news, remixed as a satirical comedy concept album. This week - Deadpool and St...

The Skewer: The 2024 Election

11 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Fresh from a BAFTA nomination, the multi-award winning The Skewer burrows its way into the 2024 General Election, rounding it all up like a satirical ...

Episode 8

03 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The week’s biggest stories like you’ve never heard them before. The news, remixed as a satirical comedy concept album.Jon Holmes presents the mult...

Episode 7

27 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The week’s biggest stories like you’ve never heard them before. The news, remixed as a satirical comedy concept album. This episode - We're Going ...

Episode 6

20 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The week’s biggest stories like you’ve never heard them before. The news, remixed as a satirical comedy concept album. This week - Gove-O-Cop, Fog...

Episode 5

14 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The week’s biggest stories like you’ve never heard them before. The news, remixed as a satirical comedy concept album. This week - Slide to the Ri...

Episode 4

06 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jon Holmes presents the multi-award winning The Skewer. The week’s biggest stories like you’ve never heard them before. The news, remixed as a sat...

Episode 3

28 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The week’s biggest stories like you’ve never heard them before. The news, remixed as a satirical comedy concept album. This week - Lee Anderson fa...

Episode 2

21 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The week’s biggest stories like you’ve never heard them before. The news, remixed as a satirical comedy concept album.Jon Holmes presents the mult...

Episode 1

14 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The week’s biggest stories like you’ve never heard them before. The news, remixed as a satirical comedy concept album. Jon Holmes presents the mul...

Episode 8

30 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Fresh from winning Gold for Best Comedy at the British Podcast Awards (and Highly Commended as Podcast of the Year), Jon Holmes's comedy current affai...

Episode 7

22 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Fresh from winning Gold for Best Comedy at the British Podcast Awards (and Highly Commended as Podcast of the Year), Jon Holmes's comedy current affai...

Episode 6

16 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Fresh from winning Gold for Best Comedy at the British Podcast Awards (and Highly Commended as Podcast of the Year), Jon Holmes's comedy current affai...

Episode 5

09 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Fresh from winning Gold for Best Comedy at the British Podcast Awards (and Highly Commended as Podcast of the Year), Jon Holmes's comedy current affai...

Episode 4

02 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Fresh from winning Gold for Best Comedy at the British Podcast Awards (and Highly Commended as Podcast of the Year), Jon Holmes' comedy current affair...

Episode 3

26 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Fresh from winning Gold for Best Comedy at the British Podcast Awards (and Highly Commended as Podcast of the Year), Jon Holmes's comedy current affai...

Episode 2

19 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jon Holmes's comedy current affairs concept album remixes news into award-winning satirical shapes. This week - An Arse on a Plate, Corbyn Neutral, an...

Episode 1

12 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Fresh from winning Gold for Best Comedy at the British Podcast Awards (and Highly Commended as Podcast of the Year), Jon Holmes' comedy current affair...

Episode 8

10 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jon Holmes's comedy current affairs concept album remixes news into award-winning satirical shapes. This week: This week: Fawlty Migrants, You've Been...

Episode 7

03 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jon Holmes's comedy current affairs concept album remixes news into award-winning satirical shapes. This week - Bad Blood, Trump's Troubles, and Jorda...

Episode 6

27 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jon Holmes's comedy current affairs concept album remixes news into award-winning satirical shapes. This week - Hot Greece, Making Banking Plans For N...

Episode 5

20 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jon Holmes's comedy current affairs concept album remixes news into award-winning satirical shapes. This week - The Coming of Cerberus, The Racist Adv...

Episode 4

13 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Episode 3

06 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jon Holmes's comedy current affairs concept album remixes the news into award-winning satirical shapes. This week- Jacob Rees Mogwai, My Sweet KGB Lor...

Episode 2

29 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jon Holmes's comedy current affairs concept album remixes news into award winning satirical shapes. This week - Apocalypse Nyet, a Succession of sewag...

Episode 1

22 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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: S...

Episode 8

30 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jon Holmes's award-winning satire twists itself into current affairs. This week - Laughing Gas Policeman, Death Wish Starmer, and Inflation Goes Up To...

Episode 7

23 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Episode 6

16 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jon Holmes' award-winning satire twists itself into current affairs. This week - PoliceMen Behaving Badly, Suella Braverman Thinks of a Number with Jo...

Episode 5

09 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 Jour...

Episode 4

02 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 Star...

Episode 3

23 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 Irela...

Episode 2

16 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jon Holmes's multi-award-winning The Skewer returns to twist itself into current affairs. This week - a Sturgeon leaps, it's Balloondependence Day, an...

Episode 1

09 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

The Skewer: 100 Years of the BBC

03 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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, t...

Episode 7

27 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Episode 6

20 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jon Holmes's multi award-winning satire returns to twist itself into current affairs like a comedy concept album made of news. . This week - Kwarsimod...

Episode 5

13 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jon Holmes mashes the news into an award winning satirical comedy concept album. This week - Burning Bridges, Call The Striking Midwife, and Dark, Dar...

Episode 4

06 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 Tu...

Episode 3

29 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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, an...

The Skewer: The Queen

22 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 C...

Episode 1

08 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Episode 8

26 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 p...

Episode 7

19 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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

Episode 6

12 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 Spag...

Episode 5

05 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 produ...

Episode 4

28 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 questio...

Episode 3

21 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Episode 2

14 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Episode 1

07 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jon Holmes's multi-award-winning The Skewer returns to twist itself into current affairs. This week - The Skewer: White-warshing, Bob The Qatar Builde...

Episode 7

16 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Episode 6

09 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 Nu...

Episode 5

02 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 specia...

Episode 4

25 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Episode 3

18 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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

Episode 2

11 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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

Episode 1

04 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Fresh from winning in three categories at the 2021 New York Festival Awards, Jon Holmes returns with his multi-award winning satirical soundscape The ...

Episode 8

22 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 CBee...

Episode 7

15 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 w...

Episode 6

08 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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-a...

Episode 5

01 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 w...

Episode 4

24 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The news - twisted and remixed. Jon Holmes presents the multi-award winning The Skewer. Headphones on. This week - Five Go Racially Abusing, and A Bee...

Episode 3

17 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 w...

Episode 2

10 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 w...

Episode 1

03 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 w...

Episode 12

01 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 w...

Episode 11

25 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 w...

Episode 10

17 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 w...

Episode 9

11 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 w...

Episode 8

04 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 w...

Episode 7

25 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 w...

Episode 6

18 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 w...

Episode 5

11 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The week’s biggest stories like you’ve never heard them before. Welcome to The Skewer. Headphones on. This week Jackie Weaver takes charge of th...

Episode 4

04 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jon Holmes's award-winning satirical river of sound returns to twist itself into the news.

Episode 3

28 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jon Holmes's award winning satirical river of sound returns to twist itself into the news.

Episode 2

21 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jon Holmes's award winning satirical river of sound returns to twist itself into the news.

Episode 1

14 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jon Holmes's multi-award winning, 'dizzying, dazzling, haunting and moving' satirical river of sound returns to twist itself into these turbulent time...