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5. This Charming Mandelson
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Peter Mandelson meets The Smiths, and Sleeping Beauty meets a former Prince as Jon Holmes mashes up the news into an award-winning satirical comedy concept album.
Peter Mandelson meets The Smiths, Sleeping Beauty is inappropriately awoken by a former Prince, and a Chinese spider welcomes a British fly.
The multi-Gold Comedy winning satire at the Radio Academy Awards returns, as Jon Holmes mashes up news with pop-culture into a current affairs comedy concept album.
Producer: Jon Holmes
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
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Wed 4 Feb 202623:15BBC Radio 4- Last Wednesday23:30BBC Radio 4 Extra
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The Skewer
A twisted comedy treat. The news remixed. Jon Holmes presents The Skewer. Headphones on.
