Podcast appearances and mentions of Jon Holmes

This week we provide recourse for a randy royal, organise an on-air riot and, for Halloween, get confused over which witch is which.From host Andrew Hunter Murray and The Skewer's Jon Holmes, Radio 4's newest Friday night comedy The Naked Week returns with a blend of the silly and serious. From satirical stunts to studio set pieces via guest correspondents and investigative journalism it's a bold, audacious take not only on the week's news, but also the way it's packaged and presented.An unusual production for BBC Radio 4Host; Andrew Hunter Murray Guests: Bella Hull, Lisa WebbInvestigations Team: Cat Neilan, Cormac Kehoe, Freya ShawWritten by: Jon Holmes Katie Sayer Gareth Ceredig Jason Hazeley James KettleAdditional Material: Karl Minns Vivienne Hopley-Jones Cooper Mawhinny Sweryt Helen Brooks Ali Panting Kevin Smith Sophie DicksonLive Sound: Jerry Peal Post Production: Tony Churnside Clip Assistant: David Riffkin Production Assistant: Molly PunshonAssistant Producer: Katie Sayer Producer: Jon HolmesExecutive Producer: Phil Abrams.an unusual production for BBC Radio 4.

This episode involves a proper funny and deeply unfiltered chat with radio comedy ledge JON HOLMES. Highly recommend you check out his work, especially The Skewer, Naked Week and Jon Holmes Says The C-Word, all available on BBC Sounds. I love Jon, he brings the vibes, even at a funeral. Thanks for downloading and supporting us (me). You're the absolute best. Come and find us... On Substack at crushedbymcs; where if you subscribe, you'll have access to the podcast ad-free and exclusive blogs as well as a lot of gushy love from me. On Instagram @crushedbymcs for a right old ragbag of silly and serious videos and clips. On email, where you can send us anecdotes, adoration and arguments  crushedbymcs@gmail. Who doesn't love post!? And if you want to do nothing but simply chuck me £4 to buy myself some sellotape and a copy of the Radio Times to make a collage, head for ko-fi.com/crushedbymcs Just out of interest: I'm appearing in Sherlock Holmes and the 12 Days of Christmas with former guests Humphrey Ker and David Reed at the Birmingham Rep over Christmas 2025. When I was a kid they'd have announcements like that over the closing credits of comedy programmes sometimes. I'd love to bring that back. Big thanks to Mighty Bunny in general and Laura Grimshaw specifically. I love them all too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Stags coach previews his team's game with Tonganoxie

In this episode, Andy Hamilton, Colin Shindler and Jon Holmes resume their role as selectors as they choose the best team of the 1960s from the English Football League as it then was.  That's not one individual club or national side but a team composed of the outstanding players of that decade in some sort of logical formation that would bring out the best of them both as individuals and as team players. Players like Tom Finney and Stanley Matthews are ineligible as their greatest days were in the 1940s and 1950s even if their careers continued into the 1960s.  Some of the selections will undoubtedly coincide with yours but some of them might surprise you so press play and start luxuriating in a nostalgic wallow through the days of our youths. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Colin Shindler tries to convince Jon Holmes and Jimmy Mulville that the 1960s was English football's most glorious decade.  Not just the world cup triumph of 1966, though that obviously features significantly at the heart of the decade.  Secondary school was dark, depressing and alienating.  Football by contrast was light, colourful and inclusive.  All it asked of you was to enjoy playing and supporting your team.  As a teenager in that decade, Colin had no wife or children to demand attention as they would in later years and in the 1960s football seemed to offer a cheap and readily available entertainment.  Of course, the decade also provided terrible pitches, small wages to most players even after the abolition of the £20 minimum wage, dilapidated grounds with no toilets and the danger of swaying on the terraces with those rolling crowds.  It can't just be nostalgia that elevates football in the 1960s, can it? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We all remember Brian Clough's infamous 44 days as manager of Leeds United, a fractious period of time which compared favourably with Liz Truss's time as Prime Minister of the UK - and of course the lettuce that lasted longer than either of them. Colin Shindler recalls with ghastly clarity Steve Coppell's 33 days in charge of the disaster that was Manchester City in 1996.  Both these short-lived phenomena have been beaten very recently: not just by what last week with Ange Postecoglou's departure from Nottingham Forest but also by what happened at the start of this season – the sacking of Erik Ten Hag after just three competitive matches in charge of Bayer Leverkeusen.  Jim White, Colin Shindler and Jon Holmes speculate as to what on earth Bayer Leverkusen could possibly have found out about Ten Hag after three matches that they didn't already know when they made the decision to hire him in the first place? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On the first day of every season nearly all football supporters experience the same surge of pride and expectation.  When they get to the ground it looks gleaming.  The grass is green and the white lines stand out in marked contrast inviting the arrival of our heroes and stimulating thoughts of promotion and championships and European football.  This emotion for most supporters doesn't even last ninety minutes as the wretched disappointment of a 2-0 home defeat brings them back to the grim reality.  They are not going to win the League or the FA Cup (or get promotion or even avoid relegation) this season after all.  Colin Shindler, Jim White and Jon Holmes wonder what drives the supporters of clubs with no hope. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Join us for a special episode as regular host Jon Holmes becomes our guest, sharing his experience at the UN's - Healthy Indoor Air: A Global Call to Action - event during Climate Week 2025.Hear powerful excerpts from world experts including Dr. Jagat Narula's stunning mummy research revealing 1,000-year-old evidence of pollution-caused disease, Rachel Hodgson's announcement of a groundbreaking Global Commission, and Professor Joseph Allen's call to recognize that; the person who manages your building can have a bigger impact on your health than your doctor. The commitments made and initiatives launched at that event, are truly a pivotal moment in the global clean air movement. Listen now to discover all. THINGS WE SPOKE ABOUTHow ancient mummies show evidence of black lungs from indoor cooking pollutionLaunch of the Global Commission on Healthy Indoor Air, working to make clean indoor air universalWhy 3.2 million deaths annually are linked to household air pollutionHow indoor air quality remains largely invisible and unmonitoredGUEST DETAILSWatch the entire event on United Nations TV here.ABOUT OUR HOSTJon The Filter Guy Holmes serves as the regular host of Camfil Let's Talk Clean Air podcast, where he explores air quality issues with industry experts and thought leaders. In this special episode, Jon becomes the featured guest after attending the historic Healthy Indoor Air: A GlobalCall to Action event at the United Nations on September 23, 2025. His firsthand experience at this landmark gathering provided unique insights into the global movement to recognize clean indoor air as a fundamental human right and the launch of unprecedented international initiatives to improve air quality worldwide.Featured UN Speakers in the episode include:Dr. Jagat Narula, President of the World Heart FederationRachel Hodgson, President & CEO of the International WELL Building InstituteProfessor Joseph Allen, Director of Healthy Building Program, Harvard TH Chan School ofPublic HealthMORE INFORMATIONThere is a wealth of industry information on air quality and how to improve it on our website at camfil.comLet's Talk Clean Air is produced for Camfil by DustPod.ioQUOTESHaving done approximately 400 mummies CT scans, we found that they had black lungs. We went to the places where they lived—low ceiling houses where they cooked inside. - Dr. Jagat NarulaNever doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. - Rachel HodgsonThe person who manages your building can have a bigger impact on your health than your doctor. - Professor Joseph AllenKEYWORDS#airquality #globalstandards #indoorairquality #IAQ #airqualityeducation #airqualitystandards

It's an increasingly pertinent question in football.  In the days of Shankly, Clough and Ferguson it was blindingly obvious who ran their clubs.  But as the manager's role has been split between the Head Coach and the Director of Football, that vision of total authority has become increasingly blurred.  The Head Coach might pick the team on Saturday afternoon (or possibly Friday night or Sunday lunchtime) but bizarrely, and to his utter frustration, he might not have bought any of the players he is selecting.  That could well have been the responsibility of the Director of Football and a committee.  Is this a better way to run these clubs which are now billion-pound businesses?  More to the point, does it increase the distance still further between the club and its fans?  Omid Djalili, Jon Holmes and Colin Shindler ponder these questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Having scored more than 200 goals for his local club, based in a small village in Somerset, Callum Hodge can say with confidence that he's made his mark in grassroots football.Millions of men across the U.K. play at a similar level every week - but Callum's story is unusual. He came out as gay in his early 20s and has carried on playing into his late 30s. He's yet to meet another player at this level who's out as gay or bi to everyone in their county league.Callum knows that homophobic language is a major reason why the vast majority of gay guys like him remain hidden in football. But with his team, Chew Magna FC - who have been amazing allies - he's taking action. They recently walked off the pitch in protest due to a discriminatory slur, with the incident now under investigation.Sadly, it's not the first time Callum has faced homophobia on the field. Now he wants to help bring about change for the benefit of other LGBTQ players, especially those struggling with their sexuality.On this episode of the FvH Podcast, he talks to Jon Holmes about the good, the bad and the ugly of grassroots men's football; why he's extra proud to be an Aston Villa fan; and shares his coming out story, in support of National Coming Out Day on October 11.Links..FA investigates alleged homophobic slur at match (BBC Bristol, 29 Sep 2025) - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c07v0z5ngzdo'Alarming' rise in reports of homophobia in grassroots football highlighted by FvH campaign (Sports Media LGBT+, December 2024) - https://sportsmedialgbt.com/grassroots-football-homophobia-anti-gay-lgbtq-discrimination-disciplinary-reviewThank you for listening to the FvH Podcast - please subscribe, rate, review and share on socials.We're at @football_v_homophobia on Instagram; @FvHtweets on Twitter / X; and you can find us on Bluesky, Threads, Facebook and LinkedIn too. Our website is https://www.footballvhomophobia.com/ Me & You by MusicbyAden | https://soundcloud.com/musicbyaden  Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com  Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

Following on from the previous edition, Colin Shindler, Jim White and Jon Holmes set themselves the task of choosing from the English Football League as it then was, a team of the 1970s.  That's not one individual club or national side, but a team composed of the outstanding players of that decade in some sort of logical formation that would bring out the best of them both as individuals and as team players.  It is with evident relief that all our regular listeners will realise that we can start proceedings knowing that Jamie Vardy wasn't born until 1987 and therefore he is ruled ineligible for selection – which is going to cause Jon to scrabble around at the bottom of his Leicester City suitcase where he will no doubt find Frank Worthington and Keith Weller.  However, the decade provided so many great players that selection of a final eleven is going to be difficult. The panel has great fun seeing who makes the final cut and they are sure you will be equally enthused to decide on your own team of the 1970s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Stags coach previews his team's game with Rockhurst

Not unusually for this podcast, we look back – with quite some affection – to the 1970s.  Many of our listeners will also no doubt remember the decade through a haze of nostalgic introspection… but of course it was also a tumultuous ten years that not only laid many of the foundation stones for the modern game, but also witnessed the English national team twice failing to qualify for the World Cup Finals after their heroics in the competition in 1970.  Bringing a younger, but no less well-informed perspective, Jon Holmes and Colin Shindler are joined by Jon Spurling – whose book Get It On:  How The 70s Rocked Football focuses on the decade that has been described as the one when football went from black & white to colour. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jim White was astonished to find that Andy Carroll is now turning out on Saturday afternoons to play in the sixth tier of English for Dagenham & Redbridge.  So it's Jim who leads the discussion (with Colin Shindler and Jon Holmes) of players who once strode purposefully at the summit of the game but ended their careers in far less salubrious circumstances.  Bobby Moore finished his playing career in the Danish Third Division and George Best turned out for Dunstable Town when he was good enough to have still been playing First Division football.  Further back in history Wilf Mannion and Tommy Lawton fell from grace with similarly sad results.  For some it was the need to earn money at the only trade they knew; for others it was the simple love of the game which continued to attract them when their great days had finished.  It proves for the panel and listeners alike a sobering discussion of how the highs of football can be swiftly replaced by the grim reality of the lows. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week Jon Holmes and Colin Shindler are joined by the author Daniel Gray to discuss his 2013 book “Hatters, Railwaymen and Knitters” – a fascinating travel book about England as seen through the less glamorous clubs of English football and the communities that support them.  It's time that clubs like Crewe and Chester and Bradford City were given their due air time and Football Ruined My Life is glad to accord it to them. Daniel proves a witty and poetic chronicler of the distant outreaches of English football. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Stags coach previews his team's game with St. James

Jon Holmes, Jim White and Colin Shindler speculate (if present trends continue) about what football will look like in the year 2050 when it is very likely that none of them will be around to feel embarrassed by how badly they got things wrong.  Colin mischievously teases Jon to consider what will have happened to Leicester City in 25 years time.  Will there still be a Premier League such as we currently know it or indeed will there still be a Leicester City or might it be swallowed up in the East Midlands side competing against Alsace Lorraine and Outer Mongolia on a weekly basis?  Jim, rather mournfully, assumes that in 2050 Manchester United will still be looking for their first Premiership title since 2013 which causes much gaiety in the other half of Manchester and a slight sigh of schadenfreude emanating from Leicester. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode Colin Shindler, Andy Hamilton and Jon Holmes examine Alan Hansen's notorious observation that you don't win anything with kids. It's rather a shame that his reputation as one of the leading pundits has been slightly tarnished by the fact that he said those words on Match of the Day on the day Manchester United had been well beaten by Aston Villa at the start of the 1995-96 season. United went on to win the double that year and we all know what that group of young Manchester United players went on to achieve.  Karen Brady when in charge of Birmingham City aroused the ire of all football supporters but claiming there was no point in growing vegetables if you could buy them so readily in the supermarket.  We older supporters yearn nostalgically for the days when we could follow the progress of local players through the youth and Reserve teams and into the first eleven. Those were the days when the emergence of 17 and 18 year-olds who cost the traditional £10 signing on fee gave more pleasure to supporters than does the current purchase of endless overseas players for huge sums of money. Or does it? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We all know that that's what the foreign owners want.  Omid Djalili, Jon Holmes and Colin Shindler discuss the reasons why we shouldn't just wave bye bye to the top six elite clubs in the Premier League and let them all just bugger off and join what nearly every football supporter fears will be the inevitable European Super League.  For them there would then be no fear of relegation but instead there would be trips to Milan, Madrid, Rome, Munich, Paris and Barcelona every other week instead of down the M3 and the M27 to Southampton or up the M1 to Sheffield and Leeds… or even worse up the M65 to Burnley.  We don't suppose in the boardrooms of New York and Paris they look forward to being asked “Hello Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, how did you find the meat pies at Turf Moor last week?”  But if they did leave, as they clearly want to, where would that leave the rest of English football? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is a particularly emotive topic.  Do we on this podcast give too much credit to the football of our youth and not enough to the Modern Game? We probably do – some might even argue it's not the football of our youth we want back but our youth itself.  And they could be right.  Who wouldn't want to be 20 years old again with a body that actually worked properly?  But one reason Colin Shindler, Jim White and Jon Holmes are always happy to talk endlessly about football in the 1960s and 1970s in particular is that there's a distressing tendency of modern football journalists and pundits to ignore the history of those years in favour of what appears to be an obsession with this week's football or last week's football.  Football talk in the media only confirms the misguided prejudice that the game began in 1992.  We beg to differ. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We can imagine no better way of celebrating our century of podcasts than by dipping into the postbag containing your emails.  Every week we encourage you to write to us and you do so in comforting numbers.  Once again, the tone is largely positive with people wanting to contribute their own memories to the topic they've just listened to or correcting our very fallible memories.  We look forward to these occasional episodes because it enables us to connect with our audience and we're very grateful that you take the time and trouble to write - if only because it reassures us that we're talking about the topics which you think and talk about.  Also, it's a comfort to know that at least we're not just talking to ourselves.  With a rare appearance of producer, Paul Kobrak, Jon Holmes and Colin Shindler begin of course with your generous tributes to our late friend and colleague Patrick Barclay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Dead Ringers team are back to train their vocal firepower on the week's news with an armoury of impressive impressions.This week: Super-injunctions, superheroes, Epstein files and, er, Diane Abbott.Cast: Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Lewis Macleod, Jess Robinson, Duncan Wisbey.This episode was written by: Nev Fountain & Tom Jamieson, Laurence Howarth, Rob Darke, Tom Coles, Toussaint Douglass, Sophie Dickson, Joe Topping, Jon Holmes, Lizzy Mansfield, Rachel E, Thorn, Davina Bentley, Alice Bright, Phoebe Butler, Declan KennedyCreated by Bill Dare Producer: Jon Holmes Executive Producer: Pete Strauss Production Co-ordinator: Caroline Barlow

The Dead Ringers team are back to train their vocal firepower on the week's news with an armoury of impressive impressions.This week: A Salt Path surprise, a Man of Steel (tariffs), and Postman Pat deals with the Post Office Inquiry Report.Cast: Jan Ravens, Jon Culshaw, Lewis Macleod, Jess Robinson, Duncan Wisbey.This episode was written by: Nev Fountain & Tom Jamieson, Laurence Howarth, Rob Darke, Toussaint Douglas, Peter Tellouche, Edward Tew, Jon Holmes, Katie Sayer, Davina Bentley, Lizzy Mansfield, Rachel E. Thorn, Jennifer Walker, Cooper Mawhinny-Sweryt, Alex Buchanan, Chris BallardCreated by Bill Dare Producer: Jon Holmes Executive Producer: Richard Morris Production Co-ordinator: Caroline Barlow Production Co-ordinator: Jodie Charman

Was 1985 English football's darkest year?  There could be a number of nominations for this much coveted title but 1985 contained the tragedies of Heysel Stadium and the Bradford City fire.  Weeks before these events the sixth round FA Cup replay between Luton Town and Millwall degenerated into a shocking riot.  The average attendance at a Division One match in 1972 had been over 30,000.  By 1985 that had slumped to just 18,374.  No British team had qualified for the Euros in France in 1984 so no British television channel bothered to cover it, so low was the interest in the game.  Football in 1985 said the Sunday Times was a slum sport played in slum stadiums and increasingly watched by slum people.  Jim White, Colin Shindler and Jon Holmes discuss whether or not that withering verdict was justified. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Dead Ringers team are back to train their vocal firepower on the week's news with an armoury of impressive impressions. This week: The Government's welfare woes, the BBC's chant chastisement, and Netanyahu, Trump and Putin play Just A Minute.The episode was written by: Nev Fountain and Tom Jamieson, Laurence Howarth, Rob Darke, Sophie Dickson, Toussaint Douglass, Peter Tellouche, Tom Coles, Edward Tew, Jon Holmes, Davina Bentley, Vicky Richards, Ali Panting, Pete Redfern, Declan Kennedy.Cast: Jan Ravens, Jon Culshaw, Lewis Macleod, Jess Robinson, Duncan Wisbey.Created by Bill Dare Producer: Jon Holmes Executive Producer: Richard Morris Production Co-ordinator: Caroline Barlow Production Co-ordinator: Jodie Charman

The Dead Ringers team are back to train their vocal firepower on the week's news with an armoury of impressive impressions. This week: Trump drops the F-Bomb, Lammy drops another clanger, and money saving expert Martin Lewis drops into NATO.Cast: Jan Ravens, Jon Culshaw, Lewis Macleod, Jess Robinson, Duncan Wisbey and Kieran Hodgson.The episode was written by: Nev Fountain and Tom Jamieson, Laurence Howarth, Tom Coles, Sophie Dickson, Toussaint Douglas, Peter Tellouche, Rob Darke, Edward Tew, Jon Holmes, Alice Bright, Katie Sayer, Davina Bentley, Rachel E Thorn, Chris Ballard and Pete RedfernCreated by Bill Dare Producer: Jon Holmes Executive Producer: Pete Strauss Production Co-ordinator: Caroline Barlow

Andy Hamilton returns to join Colin Shindler and Jon Holmes as they discuss the contentious subject of football pundits.  By pundits, they mean those know-it-alls who are either very wise after the event, are outstanding at stating the bleeding obvious or are as clueless as the rest of us when it comes to predicting the future.  Yet somehow, they have become increasingly important in the broadcasting of football on radio and particularly television.  Indeed the BBC Director General, guided by the new BBC Head of Sport, recently told us that audiences would prefer to listen to the pundits rather than watch the highlights of the match.  Contentious?  We should say so.  In the days of Kenneth Wolstenholme and David Coleman, John Motson and Barry Davies there were very few pundits besides Jimmy Hill and we related largely to those commentators unless there was a World Cup panel.  Why have the pundits become so important in recent years? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week Jon Holmes and Colin Shindler are joined by Omid Djalili to ask the question, “How English is the English football pyramid?”  Of course, football reflects society and since we all began watching football, British society has changed out of all recognition.  If you look at old football matches on The Big Match Revisited on ITV4 on Saturday mornings and other archive film programs you can see how different it was 40 years also ago and how widely British society has changed since then - not just off the field but also on the field.  There is no question that many of the imports into the game from the rest of the world have been a blessing, not least skilful players who have added to the pleasure of the crowds who went to watch them.  However, the sheer number of players playing in the English football game who are not English, Welsh, Scottish or Irish might be to some a cause of concern.  The idea of the one club man who spent his entire career with his local club has passed into History.  Is the globalisation of the game something to celebrate or regret? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Dead Ringers team are back to train their vocal firepower on the week's news with an armoury of impressive impressions.This week: Greta Thunberg floats her boat at Rachel Reeves, Trump and Elon couple up on Love Island, and Gary Lineker tries something new.Cast: Jan Ravens, Jon Culshaw, Jess Robinson, Kieran Hodgson and Duncan Wisbey.The episode was written by: Nev Fountain and Tom Jamieson, Laurence Howarth, Edward Tew, Tom Coles, Rob Darke, Sophie Dickson, Toussaint Douglas, Jon Holmes, Nicky Roberts, Jennifer Walker, Phoebe Butler, David Whitehead, Rachel E. Thorn, and Davina Bentley.Created by Bill Dare Producer: Jon Holmes Executive Producer: Richard Morris Production Co-ordinator: Caroline Barlow

In this edition of the podcast, Colin Shindler and Jon Holmes are joined by Andy Hamilton to talk in a very headmasterly tone about Onfield Behaviour which quite frankly is bringing the good name of the Football Ruined My Life school into disgrace.  In a Champions League quarter final this season two Real Madrid boys in the Lower Sixth, Rudiger and Mbappe, were shown on television after a fortunate win over their rival boys school Atletico Madrid making obscene gestures.  Rudiger was appearing to make a throat-slitting motion, apparently towards the Atletico crowd, while Mbappe was shown seemingly making a crotch-grabbing gesture.  Both boys then had to report to Mr Infantino's study after Assembly where it would appear nothing at all happened to them.  Government regulations unfortunately no longer permit Sir Stanley Rous to give both those boys a severe caning which would have happened in the more enlightened 1960s.  Has onfield behaviour deteriorated so badly in recent years or does football simply reflect an increasing disregard for authority which can be seen in so many facets of society in the 21st century? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We're all fans.  That's why we make this podcast and that's why presumably you all like listening to it.  Fan sentiment is something we suspect we all feel strongly about but probably in our different ways.  It's not just foreign owners, ludicrous transfer fees, and (present company excepted) cynical agents taking money off both their clients and the clubs.  Today's panel (of Jon Holmes, Colin Shindler and Jimmy Mulville) consider how fans like all of us are being slowly alienated from the clubs to which we've given a lifetime of devotion.  Colin even has sympathy for Manchester United fans who are appalled at the antics of their club since it became apparent that Jim Ratcliffe was not a knight on a white horse but a panic-stricken tax exile in a limousine trapped in a car park, surrounded by angry fans.  We can't help but accept that our clubs have to change, it's inevitable but is it still our club?  It's a question we all ask ourselves, some with increasing anxiety. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the first podcast Football Ruined My Life has done since the untimely demise of Patrick Barclay, Jon Holmes and Colin Shindler are joined by the Daily Telegraph sports columnist Jim White.  Forced to restart the episode because the Producer had failed to press the record button first time round, eventually the panel turn to the “the poisoned chalice”. They consider the story from the sad night of defeat on penalties in Turin to the singularly appropriate day in 2000 when Kevin Keegan resigned the job in the toilets at Wembley Stadium after a 1-0 home defeat by Germany.  In between came the nadir of Graham Taylor and the oh-so-nearly efforts of Terry Venables before Glenn Hoddle was defeated by the players' decision to embrace his original tactics but reject his rather strange insistence on utilising the assistance of a faith healer called Eileen Drewery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's commonly known as “the poisoned chalice”.  The only England manager to win the World Cup was Alf Ramsey in 1966.  Nobody has done it since though a few have come close. In this, his last ever podcast, Patrick Barclay, along with Jon Holmes and Colin Shindler, analyses why that has been the case.  Paddy and co. take the story from 1974 when Sir Alf was dismissed by the FA to the end of Bobby Robson's unlucky regime after the defeat by Germany at Italia 90.  Gazza cried, we all cried but we comforted ourselves with the thought that the next manager to try was Robson's immediate replacement, Graham Taylor.  It's unlikely that Paddy's wit and erudition was ever better displayed than in this, his last but triumphant farewell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is the penultimate podcast in which Patrick Barclay appeared.  In it the original Football Ruined My Life panel of Paddy, Jon Holmes and Colin Shindler analyse the year 1968, as the latest in their periodic examinations of one particularly memorable year.  In football terms 1968 was the year that Manchester United followed Celtic to become the first English club to win the European Cup but even that landmark occasion was only one of many.  It was also the year of the Tet Offensive, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, the riots in Chicago, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and the alliance between students and workers which brought France to a state of total paralysis.  Two black American athletes held up a black gloved fist in support of Black Power during the medal ceremony at the Mexico Olympics and the anti-Vietnam war protest movement came to Grosvenor Square in London.  West Bromwich Albion fans need not worry because we do not ignore their victory over Everton in the FA Cup Final or Manchester City's triumph as they were crowned League Champions.  A memorable year indeed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is the first of the last three episodes recorded with Patrick Barclay.  We are re-releasing the podcast he made with the original Football Ruined My Life team of Patrick Barclay, Jon Holmes and Colin Shindler because it was previously published the day we heard of Paddy's tragic death and we removed it out of respect as soon as we heard the news.    Stand-up comic Omid Djalili was born in Chelsea and has been a passionate and regular spectator at Stamford Bridge from an early age.  Forced out of London by the impact of the pandemic, he re-appeared in Suffolk and became increasingly interested in the fortunes of what is now his nearest football club, Ipswich Town.  In a predictably amusing podcast episode, Omid explains his new found interest in Ipswich Town but adds a variety of stories of growing up a Chelsea fan at the time of not only increasing violence amongst supporters and but also when to be of Middle Eastern origin was not a pathway to automatic acceptance, either by football crowds or by a British society growing increasingly intolerant of immigrants.  As ever, Omid deals successfully with all problems through humour. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Back in February, when we learnt about the tragic and shocking death of our friend and colleague, Patrick Barclay, we suspended the podcast and took time to consider if and how it can continue.  Replacing Paddy is impossible; the breadth of his knowledge and his infectious (and mischievous) sense of humour made him unique.  But here we announce our return with roster of stars who will make irregular appearances to join the regulars Jon Holmes and Colin Shindler.  Also, we reveal a special week-long series of releases of the last episodes Paddy recorded with Colin and Jon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We are LIVE at the ARIAS - the Radio Academy's annual awards for the sector. We'll be speaking to the big winners about the state of the industry and striving for excellence in a digital world - as well as Radio Academy chief Aradhna Tayal Leach.Also on the programme: it's RAJARs week - yes, the latest radio listening figures are out. Sam Jackson, controller at BBC Radio 3 is here to discuss the numbers, as well as his revolution at the station.On the red carpet we speak to Angela Scanlon, Alastair Campbell, team Goalhanger, Jon Holmes, David Olusoga, Ken Bruce and many, many more.And, in the Audio Network Media Quiz, we're celebrating some other big winners of the week.That's all happening in this edition of The Media Club. Come on in!The Media Quiz is sponsored by Audio Network who select the music to score each episode - they can do it for you too at https://www.audionetwork.comBecome a member for FREE when you sign up for our newsletter at https://www.themediaclub.comA Rethink Audio production, produced by Matt Hill with post-production from Podcast Discovery.We record at Podshop Studios - for 25% off your first booking, use the code MEDIA CLUB at https://www.podshoponline.co.ukWhat The Media Club has been reading this week:Deadline's deep dive into the rumoured ITV acquisitionAudible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooksMail's ‘Eliza' brand ditches website ahead of AI asteroid BBC to expand Local Journalism fund and grow content on YouTube & TikTokITV wins a special BAFTAUK SNL handed a short run Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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: Charlie XCX is bumpin' that with Donald Trump, Minecraft Movie vs Russia, and Starmer: Man of Steel.Producer: Jon Holmes An unusual production for BBC Radio 4

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 mourn the death of globalisation, take a tour of Keir's new theme park, and play a game of BBC Balance Local Elections Naked Week Joke Twister.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 Sarah Dempster Jason Hazeley.Investigations Team: Cat Neilan Louis Mian Freya Shaw Matt BrownGuests: Freya Parker and Alicia Fitzgerald.Production Team: Laura Grimshaw, Tony Churnside, Jerry Peal, Katie Sayer, Phoebe Butler.Executive Producer: Philip Abrams Produced and Directed by Jon HolmesAn unusual production for BBC Radio 4

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 mourn the death of globalisation, take a tour of Keir's new theme park, and play a game of BBC Balance Local Elections Naked Week Joke Twister.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 Sarah Dempster Jason Hazeley.Investigations Team: Cat Neilan Louis Mian Freya Shaw Matt BrownGuests: Freya Parker and Alicia Fitzgerald.Production Team: Laura Grimshaw, Tony Churnside, Jerry Peal, Katie Sayer, Phoebe Butler.Executive Producer: Philip Abrams Produced and Directed by Jon HolmesAn unusual production for BBC Radio 4

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 'woop woop' at the sound of the Thought Police, enjoy a spot of 'tariffic' retaliation, and bang a gong for the local elections.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 Sarah Dempster Jason Hazeley.wth additional material.Investigations Team: Cat Neilan Louis Mian Freya Shaw Matt BrownGuests: Larry Budd, and Felicity Hannah out of off of Radio 4's Moneybox Live.Production Team: Laura Grimshaw, Tony Churnside, Jerry Peal, Katie Sayer, Phoebe Butler.Executive Producer: Philip Abrams Produced and Directed by Jon HolmesAn unusual production for BBC Radio 4.

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 Spring (Statement) into action with a timely tune for - and by - Rachel Reeves, explore a pothole that's opened up in the programme, and accidentally get added to Radio 4's Group Chat.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 Sarah Dempster Jason HazeleyInvestigations Team: Cat Neilan Louis Mian Freya Shaw Matt BrownGuests: Ania Magliano, Bethany Reeves, with music by The Naked Week Wind Section.Production Team: Laura Grimshaw, Tony Churnside, Jerry Peal, Katie Sayer, Phoebe Butler.Executive Producer: Philip Abrams Produced and Directed by Jon HolmesAn unusual production for BBC Radio 4.

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 apply for a job in the parliamentary Work and Pensions office, play a game of 'Liz Truss or new ride at Alton Towers', and make a military incursion into Ambridge to steal territory from The Archers.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 Sarah Dempster Jason HazeleyInvestigations Team: Cat Neilan Louis Mian Freya Shaw Matt BrownGuests: Rubina Pabani, Alice Stapleton.Production Team: Laura Grimshaw, Tony Churnside, Jerry Peal, Katie Sayer, Phoebe Butler, Richard Young.Executive Producer: Philip Abrams Produced and Directed by Jon HolmesAn unusual production for BBC Radio 4.

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 use a housebrick to explain what's happened with the Reform Party, carve literal dead wood to explain what's happening with the civil service, and explain more news with haikus.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 Sarah Dempster Jason HazeleInvestigations Team: Cat Neilan Louis Mian Freya Shaw Matt BrownGuests: Paul Dunphy, Donna Moore, Tim Stephenson.Production Team: Laura Grimshaw, Tony Churnside, Jerry Peal, Katie Sayer, Phoebe ButlerExecutive Producer: Philip Abrams Produced and Directed by Jon HolmesAn unusual production for BBC Radio 4.

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.

A new exhibition at London's National Gallery hopes to shed light on artists in 14th Century Siena, who have often been overshadowed by their Tuscan neighbours in Florence. Samira is joined in the studio by one of the curators, Imogen Tedbury, and by Maya Corry, a Renaissance expert from Oxford Brookes University to discuss the astonishing colours and use of gold by artists like Duccio, the Lorenzetti brothers and Simone Martini. The death has been announced of Bill Dare, the creator of Radio 4's The Now Show and Dead Ringers. He nurtured new writers and performers including David Baddiel, Rob Newman, Hugh Dennis and Steve Punt, of The Mary Whitehouse Experience as well as the comedian Jon Holmes, who explains how they first met. Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck, best-known for his Oscar and BAFTA nominated documentary about James Baldwin 'I Am Not Your Negro', discusses his latest film 'Ernest Cole: Lost and Found', about the brief life of a young South African photographer who had to flee his homeland in 1968 to publish his book of photos which exposed the horrors of apartheid to the world.The Booker and Oscar-nominated writer Colum McCann discusses his thrilling new novel Twist, a dive in to the dark depths of the modern human condition set on board a ship repairing the fragile cables which connect us on the ocean floor. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Claire Bartleet

The team give the news a hard stare as they try to recruit a spy and steal some of the Uncanny podcast's listening figures by contacting Nigel Farage with a ouija board.From The Skewer's Jon Holmes 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.Host Andrew Hunter Murray and chief correspondent Amy Hoggart will strip away the curtain and dive into not only the big stories, but also the way the news is packaged and presented.From 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 Sarah Dempster Gareth Ceredig Jason Hazeley Adam Macqueen Louis MianGuests: Neil Frost and Chris Banatvala.Production Team: Laura Grimshaw, Tony Churnside, Jerry Peal, Katie Sayer, Phoebe ButlerProduced and Directed by Jon Holmes Executive Producer: Philip AbramsAn unusual production for BBC Radio 4

The team look at the week's news and, while trying understand how rebels took Syria so quickly, a military strategist helps us to take the Warwickshire stronghold of Nuneaton. Plus Rupert the Jorkiepoo helps solve the prison overcrowding crisis.From The Skewer's Jon Holmes 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. Host Andrew Hunter Murray (No Such Thing As A Fish, QI Elf, Private Eye) and chief correspondent Amy Hoggart strip away the curtain and dive into not only the big stories, but also the way in which the news is packaged and presented.From 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 Sarah Dempster Gareth Ceredig Jason Hazeley Adam Macqueen Louis MianPartial Nakedness: March Haynes Karl MinnsProduction Team: Laura Grimshaw, Tony Churnside, Jerry Peal, Katie Sayer, Phoebe Butler.Produced and Directed by Jon Holmes Executive Producer: Philip AbramsAn unusual production for BBC Radio 4

We interrogate how many milestones make a mission, look at how some MPs fund their offices and with all the Gregg Wallace unpleasantness we put a crisis management expert under pressure to give celebrities tips on how to apologise.Host Andrew Hunter Murray, Chief Correspondent Amy Hoggart, The Skewer's Jon Holmes and The Naked Week team deliver a topical news-nude straight to your ears.The Naked Week team strip away the curtain and dive into not only the big stories, but also the way in which the news is packaged and presented.Written by: Jon Holmes Katie Sayer Sarah Dempster Gareth Ceredig Jason Hazeley Adam Macqueen Louis MianAdditional material: Marc Haynes Cornelius MendezGuests this week: Jordan Greenaway Dr Beth MaloryProduction Team: Laura Grimshaw, Tony Churnside, Jerry Peal, Katie Sayer, Phoebe ButlerProduced and Directed by Jon Holmes Executive Producer: Philip AbramsAn unusual production for BBC Radio 4

From The Skewer's Jon Holmes 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.Host Andrew Hunter Murray and chief correspondent Amy Hoggart will strip away the curtain and dive into not only the big stories, but also the way the news is packaged and presented.From 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.This week - Lobbying, art, soup, and farms.Written by: Jon Holmes Katie Sayer Sarah Dempster Gareth Ceredig Jason Hazeley Adam Macqueen Louis MianPartial Nudity: Marc Haynes Cornelius Mendezwith Additional Material.Production Team: Laura Grimshaw, Tony Churnside, Jerry Peal, Katie Sayer, Phoebe Butler.Produced and Directed by Jon Holmes Executive Producer: Philip AbramsAn unusual production for BBC Radio 4