Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4 - The Naked Week: Ep 1. Oval arguments, awful algorithms, and a game of Top (Donald) Trumps.

Episode Date: March 14, 2025

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 fail to wear a suit, dance around the problems with TikTok like no one's watching, and guest correspondent Rosie Holt radicalises some children.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 Jason Hazeley Sarah DempsterInvestigations Team: Cat Neilan Louis Mian Freya Shaw Matt BrownGuests: Rosie Holt, Dr Nussaibah Younis, Laura Windsor.Production Team: Katie Sayer, Laura Grimshaw, Tony Churnside, Jerry Peal, Phoebe Butler.Executive Producer: Philip Abrams Produced and Directed by Jon HolmesAn unusual production for BBC Radio 4This episode of The Naked Week is dedicated to our colleague and friend Bill Dare.

This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. stiff the bank this sounds dangerous it is there was drugs needy this goes all the way to the top god i've always wanted to say that i need you to bury this body black hearts all episodes now streaming on hulu bbc sounds music radio podcasts Music Radio Podcasts. MUSIC Hello and welcome to the Naked Week. Imagine Newsround after it's been shouted at by JD Vance for not wearing a shirt. So, as Radio 4 gives up the news quiz for Lent, we're back. In the week that, at his State of the Union address, President Donald Trump does nothing to quash rumors he's a Russian puppet.

It's time to stop this madness. It's time to halt the killing. It's time to end this senseless war. On the map, it's show tonight. LAUGHTER APPLAUSE And following her recent Telegraph article on national values, Suella Bravman goes to surprising lengths to demonstrate what Englishness is all about.

She got down on her knees in front of a beef eater. LAUGHTER Crikey? So, Zelensky, Trump, Vance, tariff rouse, China threatening war, emergency EU summits, hostages, hell to pay. I don't know, perhaps this week is best summed up this way. Aaaaaah! Honestly, where to start?

Okay, firstly, it was pancake day on Tuesday. Which was nice. But I do hope you hung onto some of your eggs, because as I speak we're about this far from World War III, and you will want to note them down in your ration book. With the carbon tip pencil that used to be your thigh bone. It's the news, we're just reacting to it. It all kicked off last week, of course, with the Vice President

bringing no-vance joy whatsoever to the Oval Office party when he started on Vladimir Zelensky for not minding his Ps or his Qs or his JDs and disrespecting Trump, which is a bit rich coming from a man who in 2016 called Trump a reprehensible idiot and compared him to Hitler. I don't need to pass comment anyway because this week the Western Australian Premier Roger Cook sort of replied on our behalf when asked by an interviewer. JD Vance is a... ... knob. I know what's happening here. I think the Naked Week has cracked it. Do we think that maybe Trump only hired Vance so there was someone in the White House who was a bigger, I'm sorry, what was it again, Western Australian Premier?

Nob. Thank you. Than he is. Unless we're counting Elon Musk. Incidentally, Vance and Musk brings a whole new meaning to the phrase JD and Coke. And I've been told to say allegedly, genuinely by the legal department. So, nothing good ever came of sticking JD in front of your name. A thought that came to me in Wetherspoons at 10am this morning over my fifth pint of Stella.

But where was Olenski's manners? Up until this week, you may have thought turning up to a meeting with a fellow president not wearing a suit would not be as rude as invading a sovereign nation and bombing the hell out of it But what do we know in truth in our view Zelensky should have just told Trump He was celebrating World Book Day, and that's why he'd chosen to dress a stick of the dump Trump also said this week that he's going to stop sharing intelligence On Wednesday though Trump revealed Zelensky had sent him a letter, retro, agreeing to return to the negotiating table.

So assuming he will get a second bite of the orange White House cherry, and if he wants JD Nobberspoon to stop shouting at him, how should a beleaguered wartime leader mind his manners? To find out, and to help The Naked Week brave the diplomatic thicket, please welcome etiquette expert Laura Windsor. General question to start things off, how should Zelensky have made a good impression in the Oval Office? It's based on many components that have to work all together. It's all about your level of grooming, what you wear, body language which includes smiling. 38%

of that first impression is the tone of your voice. Remember when your mother used to say to you it's not what you say but how you say it. So basically he failed in nearly all categories. Right. We have had the Western Australian Premier calling JD Vance a knob. Now that could be classed as rude. What about this from Adam Bolton on Times Radio? JD Vance was a piece of shit. LAUGHTER Here's the etiquette question.

When is it polite to call someone a piece of shit on Times Radio? As Mother always used to say, if you have nothing nice to say, just don't say anything at all. Okay. That is going to make this a much shorter show actually for me. Okay, let's go a bit broader. In polite company, should you reload a Javelin anti-tank missile from the right or the left? a Javelin anti-tank missile from the right or the left? LAUGHTER Being in a war zone, Andrew, isn't quite the same as being in a restaurant, I'm afraid. Unless it's Nando's.

LAUGHTER Finally, what is the correct form of address when you're speaking to someone who has just binned eight decades of international solidarity and overturned the world order? I politely refer you to the Western Australian Premier. Of course. Laura Windsor, Queen of Better Cats, thank you very much. Thank you.

This is The Naked Week, where, in turbulent times, we take a moment to step off the world and into our quiet, relaxing, current affairs garden of contemplation. It's the news in Haikus. 4.6% rail fare rise or number of trains that run on time. The news in Haikus. Did someone feed me the second half of that line as though I'd forgotten it? Cheeky bastards, right.

I'm pleased to say that we've spent all week collecting the cards. You have to be thankful. You don't have the cards. I'm pleased to say that we've spent all week collecting the cards. You have to be thankful. You don't have the cards. I'm thankful. No, sorry, I just said we do have the cards. You don't have the cards right now. No, Donald, you're not listening. We collected the cards.

We have all the cards. You don't have the cards. You don't have any cards. What are you talking about, you maniac? We do have the cards, and to prove it, we are going to play with them right now. I have them here. These are the cards. It is the Naked Week game of, what else?

Top Trumps. Yes! Joining me to play a hand or two now is the Naked Week's collapse of Western civilization correspondent, it's Rosie Holt. APPLAUSE Hello. Hello.

Ah, I'll deal that. Yes, OK, while you're dealing, here's what I'll deal out. Yes, okay. While you're dealing, here's what I think about cards. I think Stam has played his king too early. Surely you want a state visit in your back pocket when the real crazy starts hitting the fan. We've got four more years on the Trump train. I think Sakir went too big, too soon. Where can he go now when he needs something from Trump? What can he

give him as a present next? Prince Andrew? Tempting? Yes, well no is it? I don't care what Trump's done that just seems unjustly cruel. Plus surely he's seen enough of him already on Epstein Island. already on Epstein Island. Okay, I've got the cards. You don't have the cards. Do you? No, no. Do not start. Sorry. Also, Legal have asked us to point out that there's no evidence

that Donald Trump has been to Epstein's private island, although he is on Epstein's private jet manifest, but maybe he was just wanting to watch the films. Okay. Right, world leader Top Trumps, here we go. Yeah, you know how to play, don't you? manifest but maybe he was just wanting to watch the films okay right world leader top Trump's here we go yeah you know how to play don't you yes highest scoring card in each round exactly okay I will go first I have number of opponents who have accidentally fallen out of high-rise windows what do you

have not good I've got actual Donald Trump card and it's none that we know of so far okay I've got several dozen at least so that's Putin for the win thank you very much. My turn. Length of time taken post-election for voters to turn against you? Five minutes. Oh you've got stoma. Yeah. Okay my go. Skill at evading predators? Sexual or drone? No clues.

I've got none because he is one. Oh, it's another trump card? There we go. Okay. Yeah. Damn it. You win the game, ladies and gentlemen. Our collapse of Western civilization correspondent Rosie Holt.

Last series, the Naked Week shone a light on the murky world of organized lobbying. For this series, we're turning our attention to something equally mysterious. Watchdogs. Why? A, because it's Crufts Week, but B, because... That's just the sort of wild, crazy thing we like to lie awake thinking about. That, and how I've reached an age where the equivalent of watching Glastonbury Headliners, the 1975, would have been me at the Pyramid Stage in 1990 watching a band called the 1940. Yeah, exactly. Thank you. So, across this series we're going to take a closer look at the people that ensure other people are acting properly and above board.

Basically, who regulates the regulators? Who watches the watchdogs? Well, for the next few weeks, us. And to help us, we're joined by the Naked Week's Chief Investigative Digger, Kat Neelan, everybody! Kat Neelan! Hello, Andy. Hello, Kat. Okay, before we dive in, can I just clarify? Kat, you also work for Tortoise Media, right?

Correct. Okay, so we have a cat working for a tortoise watching dogs. That's right. Very nice. So who is first onto Noah's regulatory arc? Well, it is a watchdog, one that most people will probably have heard of, but without necessarily knowing what it actually does.

It's the Electoral Commission. OK, obvious question. What does it actually do? Well, the Electoral Commission describes itself as… The independent body which oversees elections and regulates political finance in the UK. We work to promote public confidence in the democratic process and ensure its integrity. Good, I like the sound of that. That's good because so do plenty of senior Labour MPs. Here's integrity fanboy and

Britain's favourite, Wes, streeting. I think the important thing is transparency and accountability and that there are no conflicts of interest and that is why we have the transparent system that we have. I think that is a good thing and long may it continue. And in the interests of transparency, that was his response to being asked why he'd accepted four free tickets to see Taylor Swift. I've got a blank space baby and I'm writing his name. Yes? LAUGHTER

I'm assuming the Electoral Commission is also big on transparency, right? Absolutely. Although they know that their own system needs tightening. Just last month, the Watchdog warned MPs that some rules are... Out of date, overcomplicated and inconsistent, and that they have a series of weaknesses. Are they talking about the Electoral Commission or a Brompton bike? So maybe it's not hugely surprising that The Naked Weak has unearthed a significant donation made to a Cabinet Minister which has gone undeclared to the Electoral Commission. Ooh, tell us more.

In July last year, Labour MP Heidi Alexander, now the Transport Secretary, accepted 15,000 pounds from a company called OPD Group Limited for, quote, local campaigning, which definitely should have been logged with the Electoral Commission by now, but wasn't. OK, so just so we're clear, has Heidi done anything wrong? Has she been hy-deying the money? Shut up!

No. She registered the donation on her parliamentary page, but it's up to the party to register it with the regulator. A Labour Party spokesperson told the Naked Week on Tuesday, Due to an administrative error, this local constituency party donation was not declared to the electrical commission, but this has since been rectified swiftly by the Labour Party and the declaration has now been made. Which sounds an awful lot like… When you told us about this we realised we'd failed to do our job. So what about this company that donated the money to Heidi Alexander? OPD Group Limited.

Yes, what do we know about them? Very little. It only has four employees and no website and its most recent set of accounts tells us precisely nothing about its profits or its losses. And yet it recently donated 15 grand to the Transport Secretary. So that is odd. Do we know who owns OPD Group Limited? Well, at the moment that would be the unbelievably similarly named OPD Group Holdings Ltd. And there's even less information available about them.

But we do know it's owned by a man named Peter Hearn. Okay, that doesn't ring any bells. Well, he's a millionaire recruitment mogul and longtime labour supporter, and initially he gave the money in his own name. But then in January 2020, he started donating through another company of his called NPM Connect. Then in 2023, he began donating through OPD Group instead. Okay, so what do we know about NPM Connect? Again, and you might spot a pattern emerging, very little.

It has no website and apparently no employees. Its registration on Companies House says that it is concerned with activities of head office. Witches? No, it's nothing to do with witches, Andy. on Companies House says that it is concerned with activities of head office. Which is? No, it's nothing to do with which is Andy. But we do know. And we know because The Naked Week has also spoken to Peter Hearn who told us that MPM Connect and OPD Group are investment companies and therefore don't need many employees because all they do is invest in shares and other companies.

And apparently MPs. Yes. Hearn told us that he supports certain MPs on the right of the Labour Party because he likes their politics. To give you an idea of those politics, while he thinks personal taxes should perhaps be increased, he would like lower corporation tax. A millionaire businessman wanting lower corporation tax. Hmm, that's surprising. That's astonishing, very bold. Has he been backing any other MPs?

He has. They include the Security Minister Dan Jarvis, the Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, oh and this guy. That is why we have the transparent system that we have. I think that is a good thing and long may it continue. Oh, Wes. Wes, Wes, Wes. You've now slipped down to fourth on my list of favourite Weses behind Anderson, Snipes and Timmy Strabby. But...

LAUGHTER APPLAUSE What does this have to do with the regulator? The point is, the Electoral Commission isn't keeping up with this deluge of donations, either from Herne or anyone else. Since October 2023, MPs have received £234,000 from OPD Group, but the Watchdog has only clocked £147,000 of that so far, meaning there's an £87,000 shortfall from one company alone that the official regulator hasn't regulated.

Okay, and that's from one company that's been missed. Okay, we know that 15 of the 87,000 went to Heidi Alexander. What about the rest? Well, Wes Streeting received 53,000 for quote, staffing costs. Oh, Wes! 53 grand on staffing! For that amount, you could hire 212 Taylor Swift impersonators. Don't ask me how I know that. Move on. To be fair, this donation was very recent, so it will, we assume, eventually be logged

with the Commission. And Hearn told us that he offered this money to Streeting because the Health Secretary has a slim majority, and as such there needs to be ongoing work in his Ilford North constituency ahead of the next election. Okay, last time I checked that was still four years away, unless something seismic has happened since we started recording. And that sound you can hear by the way is Ed Davey hastily booking 45 bungee jumps just in case. Now, the Electoral Commission has suggested ways to increase transparency. For example, last month their chief executive told MPs…

A company doing business in the UK as it's currently the case should only be able to donate as much as its profits essentially over the last year or so. And isn't that a bit tricky if we don't actually know how much profit companies like OPD Group are making? Yeah, which perhaps might make you wonder why the system is the way it is. So in summary, Kat, we have a mind-meltingly confusing web of opaque companies owned by a wealthy businessman making large donations to senior labour figures, some of which are slipping straight past a knackered old watchdog like Andrew Tate slipping past Romanian airport

security. And in the interest of transparency, those are the opinions of Andrew Hunter Murray. And his email for the lawyers is Andrew.Hunter. Kat Neelan, everybody. Kat Neelan. Thank you very much. I want to talk to you about an undercover mission. Kat Neelan, everybody. Kat Neelan. Thank you very much. APPLAUSE BELL CHIMES I want to talk to you about an undercover mission.

I need two officers to infiltrate a gang dealing drugs. Hate to break it to you, Clinton, but we ain't street. We're just doing a spot drug dealing. Oh! You got this. What? Take this shit off the bank. This sounds dangerous. It is. There was drugs, nudity. This goes all the way to the top. What? Take this sh** off the bank! This sounds dangerous. It is.

There was drugs. Nudity. This goes all the way to the top. God, I've always wanted to say that. I need you to bury this body. Aaaaaaah! Black Ops. All episodes now streaming on Hulu. You're listening to The Naked Week. Coming up, I'm not sure what a normal hour and a half presidential address to Congress

sounds like, but... Eight million dollars for making mice transgender. At least he covered the key issues, I suppose. Now, this week we learned there's going to be an investigation into the Chinese social media platform TikTok and others over their use of children's data. Such as why Emily thinks Charlie XCX is goals, and exactly how much Olivia thinks Taylor Swift is slay. According to the Information Commissioner's office, the algorithms on TikTok are pushing content that is inappropriate, sexually explicit, and potentially radicalizing to children.

And frankly, we at The Naked Week won't stand for it. How dare China put our good old British porn stars and homegrown jihadis out of a job. Tick-tock is allegedly controlled by the Chinese government and an investigation by the New York Post in 2023 highlighted a big disparity in how the algorithms perform in China compared to how they perform in the algorithms perform in China compared to how they perform in the West. In China, children are pushed to videos that celebrate education,

family values, and a love of the government. Keir Starmer has already asked Beijing for the coding. But in the West, meanwhile, the algorithms are promoting underachievement, underage drinking, underage sex, a mistrust of the government and the military, and glamorizing mental illness. Obviously this is a huge claim and we wanted to see if we could find evidence ourselves. So earlier this week the Naked Week's IT department spent most of the show's budget on a brand new phone and downloaded just one app, TikTok. The phone had no data at all, no contacts, no photos, and we hadn't been online at all. It was a literal blank slate.

We then invented a TikTok user, a 14-year-old girl, and we gave her the first name that was most common in her year of birth, partly so it would be as generic as possible for the experiment, and partly so it would sound far less creepy when we admitted to impersonating a child on national radio. So to be clear, Amelia2011xoxo had no data at all for the algorithm to analyze, other than her age and her nationality. So this is genuinely what the TikTok algorithm fed this week to a British 14-year-old. Rosie Holt is the Naked Week's Creepy Experiment Editor, and she joins me now. Rosie, I believe you have the findings of our research. What videos did the algorithm push to Amelia? Well, the researchers meticulously logged every video Miss 2011 XOXO was shown.

And in the first videos that appeared, there were two on anxiety, two glamorising misbehaving at school, and one with the union jack overlaid by a TikTok dance song that's seemingly about, and I quote, big minge energy. Thank you, it sounds like this. Sesame. Big mean jenny-jee. Rosie, I never want to hear that again. Ever. What else did the algorithm show Amelia? Another interesting thing is what TikTok suggested to Amelia in the search function.

TikTok suggests searches based on content it thinks you might enjoy. And these are the genuine, immediate searches it suggested for Amelia 2011 XOXO. The first suggested search was, wait for it, Mummy Pig Pregnancy Reveal. I didn't even know David Cameron was on TikTok. Yes! Okay, what next Rosie? Okay, after that it got quite dark.

In all seriousness, it next suggested a woman kissing her man while washing his hair, then two year sevens fighting at school, and then two videos called Two Babies Found Dead at Daycare. Okay, so this is actually genuinely grim stuff. I presume that if you refresh it gives you new video suggestions, is that right? Yeah, yeah, that's absolutely right. Without watching any of the suggested videos, Emilia refreshed and what came up was more fighting 11 year olds, man kissing 10 women, see-through bikini and five boys, two girls. Okay, so this is truly horrible.

Yes, yeah, no it is. Then we searched Radio 4 The Naked Week and that gave Amelia how to get your period and seven minutes in the closet with a boy, then how to make your thingy feel nice. What? Pfft. I'm sorry, sir, you can find the video. And we'll be including a link in the show notes. We absolutely will not.

And then finally, just outright porn. So it literally just gets more and more extreme? Yeah, almost. The radicalising content very much did, but the final video it recommended to Amelia didn't quite fit the pattern. What was it? Okay, genuinely, granny farts in church. So, listener, I reiterate, all of this is absolutely genuine. It really does seem that TikTok and its ilk are pushing this stuff to our kids. So what can we do about it?

Should we regulate harder? Should we ban smartphones for under-16s? Should we courier that granny some Gaviscon? Well, as you know, we're the Naked Week. We like to be helpful. And if the nation's children are being radicalized, then we are going to save them by radicalizing them right back with a safer alternative.

We want to drive children away from sex, drugs, and minge-based rock and roll. then we are going to save them by radicalising them right back with a safer alternative. We want to drive children away from sex, drugs and minge-based rock and roll by giving them a benign and dare we say it, truly British substitute for TikTok. That's right, live on air, we are going to radicalise a child into loving Radio 4. Earlier today, I spoke to Dr Nusayba Younis, a peace-building practitioner who has advised the Iraqi government on de-radicalising women affiliated with ISIS. And I asked her other criteria that make some children more vulnerable to radicalisation than others.

Generally, people who are having personal or emotional difficulties. So anyone who's ever written into feedback might be eligible for radicalisation? I think it's very critical that when we introduce young people to Radio 4, we do not tell them about feedback. I couldn't agree more. It's now time to radicalise some children. Rosie now joins me live from the Naked Week after school club, where we have five children of varying ages and backgrounds chained to a radiator, and we have talk-about-corriged

all five of them into listening to the Today program podcast. Increasing their listenership to five. Rosie let the radicalization commence. Play the children the first clip. Okay kids this clip is from a Radio 4 show called Farming Today. It's unfair that oilseed rape is bought in from countries where they use neonicotinoids, pesticides that are banned in the UK because they harm bees. Thoughts? It's hardly surprising given this government's track record of arrogance and contempt towards

our nation's farmers. Thank god Rosie, it's working. More, more. Children, listen to this disgusting piece of propaganda. That's bells on Sunday from the parish church of St Peter in Tiverton, Devon. What do you think? Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Almost full radicalisation. This is, if you'll pardon the expression, radical stuff.

They're now so immersed in Radio 4's adjit prop, Andy, that one of them has called any answers. Good afternoon. Welcome to Any Answers. 3% of national income on defence, Dharma is talking about, that's still far too low. Defence spending has to be at the forefront of every country's economic priorities. That's just the new normal.

Yeah, okay, thank you very much. Does it mean that the rest of Europe is going to have to ramp up armaments, the size of their armies, nuclear weapons? Is that the world that our children are going to inherit? Look, speaking of the child, the idea of inheriting the world seems short-sighted. Okay, well I'm grateful for your call and your expertise on this. Well, to paraphrase Whitney Houston, I believe that radicalised children are the future. Like I always say, treat them well and one will eventually take over from Melvin Bragg on In Our Time

Hello, Saint Isaac the Confessor was the founder of the Dalmatian monastery in 1st century Constantinople He was imprisoned by the Roman Emperor Valens every 178 AD but following Valens death at the Battle of Adrianople, Isaac was released and subsequently became known as a staunch defender of early Christian orthodoxy most notably at the Second Euconymical Council With me to discuss Isaac of Dalmatia, and my best friend Jack, and also my other best friend Maisie, but not Craig, because his mum can't pick him up on birthdays. LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

Blimey, they really are radicalised, aren't they? Oh, hang on, one of them wants to speak to you. Andrew Hunter-Murray, we demand Radio 4 Law and Decalifate to be established at Broadcasting House. Glory be to Melvin, for he is the one true host. Radicalized child, how old are you? 13. Okay, we have a 13 year old boy on the BBC.

How will you cast for this, if you don't mind me asking? Easy, my dad is an official in Hamas. Okay, I think that's all we've got time for. I think we'd better stop there. Thank you, Radical Life children. Goodbye. The Naked Week was hosted by Andrew Hunter Murray with correspondent Rosie Holt and guests

Nisabah Younis and Laura Windsor. It was written by John Holmes, Gareth Keradig, Katie Sayre, Sarath Dempster, and Jason Haisley. The investigations team, Kat Neelan, Louie Mian, Matt Brown, and Freya Shaw. Additional material by Carl Minns, Helen Brooks, Pete Redfern, Darren Phillips, Laura Grimshaw, Phoebe Butler, Cooper Mwini-Swerd, and Kevin Smith.

New recruits to the cause were Samuel, Freddie, Layla, Marianne, Jessie, and Rufus. Glory to Melvin! LAUGHTER The Naked Week is produced and directed by John Holmes. Melvin at four! It's an unusual production for BBC Radio 4! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE This episode of The Naked Week is dedicated to our colleague and friend, Bill Dare.

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