Proud that projects I’ve been part of — Collapsing Orbits & The Skewer — are nominated at the 2026 BBC Audio Drama Awards! 🎧 •Collapsing Orbits: Best Original Series or Serial •Burn Gorman: Best Actor •The Skewer: Best Use of Sound #BBCAudioDramaAwards #AudioDrama

Or listen to our findings on episode of The Naked Week www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Don’t quite know how we swung it but this week’s The Naked Week has secured Taylor Swift as a special guest. Listen at 18:30 on @BBCRadio4 & @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Digital things I would pay money for… a) an ad blocker but for all AI generated content. b) an ad blocker but for stores about Lily Allen and David Harbour.

Flags near me. If you’re gonna pretend to be patriotic you should probably learn which way up the flag goes. 🤦

Delighted to wind back the clock and slip into this week's #TheSkewer. It's like slipping into your favourite uncle. Still the best 15 minutes of noise out there by an absolute sodding mile. Listen and weep. 📻 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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...

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...

On BBC Sounds now…

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...

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!

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...

Starting now on Radio4 t.co/Elq1a8Q2gN

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...

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...

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…

“Exposition Impossible: The Final Reckoning” #AmIRight?

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.

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.

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

We’re back tonight for a thirteenth series. And I’d like to think despite the last 12 series we’re still as sharp and as blunt as ever. This week: Man of steel, it’s dumb that you feel, and the art of the deal. 11:15pm on @radio4rne.bsky.socials #TheSkewer www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

To still get nominations for #TheSkewer after all this time is amazing. Chuffed to be on this list….

Fan of music? Fan of history? Fan of music history that you’ve probably never even heard of? Revisit the biggest concert ever stated fifty years on, with recently unearthed behind the scenes footage from 1975’s #FantasyPark in a thing we’ve weaved. 7.15pm @bbcradio4 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Radio 4 - Tonight - 7.15. A documentary about a field near Cincinnati and what the flip everyone was doing there exactly almost roughly 50 years ago. From the appalling minds of @anc1entmarinade.bsky.social, @jonholmes.bsky.social, @tonychurnside.bsky.social 'n' me. 📻 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Now!

I see AI being used in the radio industry more and more, and it does all the repetitive mundane jobs that taught me how to be good at doing the more advanced stuff. There’s a good chance it will save a fortune in the short term and cost dearly in the long term. Unless of course AI replaces us all.

Excellent FT article this morning by @sarahoconnorft.ft.com on how AI and similar technologies are already affecting entry-level professional jobs (something I think about a lot these days). on.ft.com/4iETOtu

I recently did the sound design for this truly unbelievable story. On BBC Radio 4 next weekend. #fantasypark www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

It was the greatest line-up ever: Chicago, Led Zeppelin, Elton John, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Bee Gees ... and there was a rumour even the Fab 4 would appear. March 30, we dig into Fantasy Park - the greatest festival you've never heard of: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #fantasypark

At 6.30 your friendly neighbourhood team from #TheNakedWeek #BBCRadio4 will be using a housebrick to explain @reform-uk-official.bsky.social’s difficult week, some dead wood to explain civil service dead wood, and some charlie to explain the King. Tune in! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Any UK Disney+ subscribers looking aghast across the pond, I can recommend the film Idiocracy. disneyplus.com/en-GB/browse...

I find it ironic that Zelenskyy seeks security from someone so obviously insecure.

M: “007, we have a mission of utmost importance, you need to deliver this, before 8pm tomorrow” #bond #amazon

Ooh, some more awards nominations. Ambies for Best Script, BBC Audio Awards for Best Series and Best Sound. Hear here… www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie... #MoneyGone congrats to @edbearsellek.bsky.social & @eloisewhitmore

Late to the (waffle) party, but I’ve just seen a bit of #Severance. I think the most noteworthy thing about this drama about a powerful cult-like technology company that favours minimalist design is that it’s #apple who commissioned it. 🤔

This sounds exciting… beyondthejoke.co.uk/content/1574...

Happy Christmas Everyone!

The Shipping Forecast: Shipshaped, a history of how shipping and the sea have shaped our isles. On Radio 4 on New Year’s Day at 8pm. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The Naked (Christmas) Week - the Christmas Special of our satirical comedy. On Radio 4 on Friday at 6:30. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

I’ve been working with Count Binface on his plan to resurrect Ceefax. Hear how we got on on Christmas Day at 9pm on Radio 4. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

What's that? You want more topical comedy and you want it fresh? Then tune into episode 2 of #TheNakedWeek 6.30pm on BBC Radio 4. It'll be a cracker. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

I’m not leaving twitter, but like everyone else I have a place here too if you want to link up there too…

Big project just finished with a small gap before the next. Do I update to macOS Sequoia? #Protools #Sounddesign #audioproduction

That’s a wrap for season 12 of #TheSkewer. Obviously we couldn’t cover the budget cos it just happened this afternoon, but… …I’m kidding, of course we go to town on the budget. Plus some other News. Hear it at 11:15pm on @BBCRadio4 & @BBCSounds.

Coldplay just sold out? Coldplay sold out years ago, amirite?