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Listen Against. Image shows from L to R: Alice Arnold, Jon Holmes. Image credit: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

Listen Against

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Listen Against

Presented by Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes, Listen Against uses actual BBC footage and presenters to create a surreal broadcasting world

Genre:
Satire
Broadcast:
2007 - 2008  (BBC Radio 4)
Episodes:
8 (2 series)
Starring:
Jon Holmes, Alice Arnold, James Bachman, Justin Edwards, David Mara, Catherine Shephard, Kim Wall, Rachel Atkins
Writers:
Bill Dare, Joel Morris, Jason Hazeley, Carl Carter, Sam Bryant, Gareth Gwynn, Jon Holmes, John-Luke Roberts, Jonathan Harvey, Adam Buxton
Production:
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

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.

In essence, it is a mix of edited audio from existing radio shows and carefully prepared fake broadcasts.