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Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes take a satirical look back over a week of radio

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Listen Against: Series 3: Episode 1

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Series 3

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Listen Against, Series 3, Episode 1

Jeremy Paxman goes rogue, and Today gets remade as a US sitcom.

A week of radio that never happened. Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes rewind and mangle real programmes. From September 2010.

A week of radio and TV that never happened in the show that works its way through it all, like a critical tapeworm going through a giant media dog. 

*  Jeremy Paxman finally breaks and goes rogue

*  Today gets remade as a US sitcom 

*  Listeners thoughts on the Food Programme giving recipes for cooking a Flump and spit roasting a Clanger   

Presenters:  

Alice Arnold
Jon Holmes  

With special guests Jenni Murray, Richard Bacon and John Humphrys.

Featuring: 

James Bachman
Stephen Critchlow
Sarah Hadland
David Schnieder 

Written by Jon Holmes, Matthew Charlton, Sam Bryant, Lyndsay Fenner, James Kettle, Joel Morris, Jason Hazely and Gareth Gwynn. 

Producer: Sam Bryant 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2010.

Listen Against: Series 3

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Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes take a satirical look back over the last week of radio

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