Breaking the News - Gareth Waugh, Ria Lina, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Val McDermid - BBC Sounds Des Clarke hosts Scotland's award-winning satirical news quiz.

If you missed it here's yesterday's episode of #BreakingTheNews And the first part of the episode will tell you what major news story broke during the recording.
(And features stuff by @stucooper1.bsky.social @swerytd.bsky.social and myself)
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The Skewer - Series 15 - 2. ICE, ICE, baby - BBC Sounds Jon Holmes remixes the news into a satirical comedy concept album.

If you missed #TheSkewer last night you can catch it again here. Contains some stuff by us including a little Lego brick building.
(with @swerytd.bsky.social and @stucooper1.bsky.social )
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Breaking the News - Series 15 - TV: Episode 7 Des Clarke is joined by Daliso Chaponda, Jay Lafferty and Gareth Waugh to take a look back at the biggest stories making the headlines.

And if you missed last night's #BreakingTheNews you can listen to that here. And it also features some stuff by us, about football and Trump, our two great loves.
( @swerytd.bsky.social @stucooper1.bsky.social and me)
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The Naked Week - Series 3 - Immigration, Espionage, and a game of Guess Who? - Epstein Edition - BBC Sounds The Naked Week tackles immigration, espionage and a game of Guess Who? - Epstein Edition.

If you missed it here's last night's #TheNakedWeek Great as always but then again we would say that as it features some stuff by us.
( @swerytd.bsky.social @stucooper1.bsky.social and me)
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The Naked Week - Series 3 - Trump, Traitors, and RIP Tim Davie - BBC Sounds This week the team fundraise for the BBC, welcome a traitor, and necromance a potato.

Thrilled to have been part of the team for an incredible episode of #TheNakedWeek And pleased to work with Wes Streeting to give some publicity to a little known show called Celebrity Traitors.
(With @swerytd.bsky.social and @stucooper1.bsky.social )

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Breaking the News - Series 15 - TV: Episode 3 Des Clarke is joined by Jo Caulfield, Kim Blythe and Jamie MacDonald to take a wry look back at the stories making the headlines in Scotland and around the world.

Cracking panel and cracking show this week on #BreakingTheNews and even contains some stuff by us.
(us being @stucooper1.bsky.social @swerytd.bsky.social and me)
You can catch up with it here:
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First time we've managed to get "perpendicular" in a punchline 💪

Breaking the News - Series 15 - TV: Episode 1 Des Clarke and special guests Felicity Ward, Chris Forbes, Kate Hammer and Marc Jennings break down the week’s news and put it back together again.

Breaking the News is back on your TV screens and the first episode features some stuff by us!
(Us being @swerytd.bsky.social @stucooper1.bsky.social and me)

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The Skewer - Series 14 - Ep 3: Supercalifragilisticexpibraggadocious - BBC Sounds Jon Holmes remixes the news into satirically shaped sounds.

You can enjoy this week's episode of #TheSkewer here and it even includes a little alien courtesy of us.
(Us being @stucooper1.bsky.social @swerytd.bsky.social and me)

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Good to see my new Sainsbury's making parking easier for DJs.

Dead Ringers - Series 26 - Dead Ringers Ep 4. Welfare woes and Wimbledon - BBC Sounds The Dead Ringers team are back to train their vocal firepower on the week’s news.

First time for @swerytd.bsky.social @sjmawhinney.bsky.social and I writing for Dead Ringers:
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Looks like even eating Lindt is now a case of red pill, blue pill

After Party: The Skewer DJ Set — Crossed Wires Festival 2025 Jon Holmes and Tony Churnside from Radio 4’s multi-award-winning satire mix music with news in an exclusive bespoke DJ set. Expect cocktails by Public, freshly poured Guinness and food trucks from Pea...

Are you in Sheffield on Sunday? No, you’re probably not. But here’s a reason to be! #CrossedWires. Plus, tickets are free and there’s booze. crossedwires.live/podcast/afte...

San Diego's enormous corpse flower looking like aN upside down ballerina.

Maybe it's called a corpse flower because that's a dead ballerina stuffed in a bucket.

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

The Skewer - Series 13 - Elections, 100 Days of Trump, and Trans Labyrinth - BBC Sounds The news remixed. This week - Elections, 100 Days of Trump, and Trans Labyrinth.

Catch up on last night's #TheSkewer here and you can enjoy the Cardinals going All or Nothing for the new pope and escaping the Matrix at the local elections from us.
( @stucooper1.bsky.social @swerytd.bsky.social and me)
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Upbeat brunch playlist to start the Bank Hol weekend: Radio Radio by Elvis Costello, Shiny Happy People by REM & Hot To Go by Chappell Roan

Something is Missing We’ve launched a powerful parody film trailer, ‘Something is Missing’, to shine a spotlight on pancreatic cancer and the need for early detection.

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

Breaking the News - Felicity Ward, Raymond Mearns, Kathleen Hughes and Robin Morgan - BBC Sounds Des Clarke hosts Scotland's award-winning satirical news quiz.

So here it is, the last #BreakingTheNews of the current series. Enjoy it one last time before the break and you can even hear a few gags by us in there.
( @swerytd.bsky.social @stucooper1.bsky.social and me)
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The Skewer - Series 13 - Gender, Easter, and The Dead Pope's Society. - BBC Sounds The week's news - satirically remixed. This week: The wrong toilets and a dead Pope.

You can catch up with this week's #TheSkewer here and it even includes some stuff by us.
( @swerytd.bsky.social @stucooper1.bsky.social and me)
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We being @swerytd.bsky.social @sjmawhinney.bsky.social

Breaking the News - Mark Nelson, Elaine Malcolmson, Don Biswas and Kate Hammer - BBC Sounds Des Clarke hosts Scotland's award-winning satirical news quiz.

In Trivial Pursuit category news (S&L), there have been 2 big records this week. Ovechkin has broken Gretsky's goals record and we've hit 500 BTN gags broadcast. Basically the same.
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Although if you asked me which track I'm happiest exists, it would be Voice of Harold - look it up!

Have picked up loads of new songs to like from the REM series of @whatismusicpod.bsky.social. Here's the top of my playlist, although Losing My Religion is predictably the real #1

Loving this! (Cotswolds)

two men wearing glasses are standing next to each other in front of a building with the number 4 on it . ALT: two men wearing glasses are standing next to each other in front of a building with the number 4 on it .

"But we would write 500 jokes and we would write 500 more."

Thrilled to say we got our 500th gag broadcast on today's #BreakingTheNews so a little gif for @stucooper1.bsky.social @swerytd.bsky.social and myself.

The Naked Week - Series 2 - Performing, Potholes and Paddington - BBC Sounds This week, the team help Rachel Reeves with her Spring Statement, and fall in a hole.

If you've got the "headroom", @swerytd.bsky.social @sjmawhinney.bsky.social and I have written some of The Naked Week, including what may be the worst insult of Paddington in history
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So Salt(y tears) & Pauper?

Undoubtedly the poshest crisps I've ever seen

If you've been stuck in outer space for the past 9 months you might have missed that a new series of #BreakingTheNews is well underway.
But the good news is you can catch the latest episode at 1.30pm on BBC Radio Scotland.