Listen Against
- Radio sketch show
- BBC Radio 4
- 2007 - 2011
- 16 episodes (4 series)
Presented by Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes, Listen Against uses actual BBC footage and presenters to create a surreal broadcasting world. Also features James Bachman, Justin Edwards, David Mara, Catherine Shepherd, Kim Wall and more.
- Series 4, Episode 1 repeated Sunday 5th January at 10pm on Radio 4 Extra
Key details
- Genre
- Sketch Show
- Broadcast
- 2007 - 2011
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Episodes
- 16 (4 series)
- Stars
- Jon Holmes, Alice Arnold, James Bachman, Justin Edwards, David Mara, Catherine Shepherd, Kim Wall, Rachel Atkins and more
- Writers
- Bill Dare, Joel Morris, Jason Hazeley, Carl Carter, Matt Charlton, Sam Bryant, Gareth Gwynn, Jon Holmes and more
- Producers
- Jon Holmes, Sam Bryant and Bill Dare
- Company
Listen Against is the show that prises the back off your radio, fiddles around with the programmes inside and then puts it all back together the wrong way round to create a surreal broadcasting world.
In essence, it is a mix of edited audio from existing radio shows and carefully prepared fake broadcasts.
The show is presented by The Now Show star Jon Holmes and Radio 4 newsreader Alice Arnold; with actors including James Bachman, Sarah Hadland and David Schneider.
After plenty of audio cutting and pasting and digital messing, Jon and Alice look back in amplitude at snippets from Radio and TV and invite listeners to rise up and shout at it all.
The series features cameos from the likes of Richard Bacon, Neil Fox, Jenni Murray, John Humphrys, Peter White, the Reverend Richard Coles and Julia Hartley-Brewer while Gaby Roslin and Ed Stourton play themselves burrowing to the centre of the Earth for charity in the Children In Need Mole Machine where they are attacked by pterodactyls.
Additional details
- Production
- Studio
Website links
- Official Web Page
The official web page for the show on the BBC Radio 4 website. - Jon Holmes' Website
The website of Jon Holmes, the star of Listen Against. - Wikipedia
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Wednesday 14th November 2007 at 6:30pm on BBC Radio 4
- Next repeats
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- Series 4, Episode 1: Sunday 5th January at 10pm on Radio 4 Extra
- Series 4, Episode 2: Sunday 12th January at 10pm on Radio 4 Extra
- Most recent repeats
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- Friday 22nd September 2023 at 11:30pm on Radio 4 Extra - Series 3, Episode 4
- Friday 15th September 2023 at 11:30pm on Radio 4 Extra - Series 3, Episode 3
- Friday 8th September 2023 at 11:30pm on Radio 4 Extra - Series 3, Episode 2