As Presenter:
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Jon Holmes Show (weekday afternoons)
XFM
The Xfm Breakfast Show (weekdays)
BBC Radio 2
(cover for Graham Norton & The Chris Evans Breakfast Show)
Jon & Miranda (with Miranda Hart)
The Day The Music Died (with Andrew Collins and Robin Ince - 5 series)
BBC Radio 6 Music
Jon Holmes Show (Saturdays)
BBC Radio 5 Live
Men’s Hour (reporter)
Jon Holmes’s Mob Rule
BBC Radio 1
Milk Run: The Jon Holmes Show (overnight)
Virgin Radio
2001-2002 (weekend late nights)
2016 - 2018 (breakfast and drive cover)
2017 - 2018 Sunday afternoons
LBC
2007 - 2008 (Friday drive presenter)
BBC Radio 4 Extra
The Comedy Club (Host)
BBC Radio Kent
2016 - 2020 (Saturday mornings. Won Aria Award for Best Radio Comedy)
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As writer / performer:
Jeremy Vine: Agony Uncle (BBC R2)
The Now Show (BBC R4)
Listen Against (BBC R4) review | review
Grievous Bodily Radio (BBC R4)
The 99p Challenge (BBC R4)
Broadcasting House (BBC R4)
I’m Spartacus (BBC R2)
The Day The Music Died (BBC R2)
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As actor:
Jeremy Vine: Agony Uncle (as 'Tim' the producer - Radio 2)
Slaving Away (Audible, 6-part sitcom)
Rashid Goes To Hollywood (BBC R4 sitcom)
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As writer:
Dead Ringers (BBC R4)
Armando Iannucci’s Charm Offensive (BBC R4)
The 99p Challenge (BBC R4 - also panellist)
The Way It Is (BBC R4)
The Very World of Milton Jones (BBC R4)
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As producer:
The Skewer (BBC R4)
Men’s Hour (BBC R5 Live)
Asian Network Comedy Night (BBC Asian Network / BBC R4)
Listen Against (BBC R4)
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As executive producer:
Macau: Monte Carlo of the Orient (BBC World Service and BBC R4)
Betty in the Sky with a Suitcase : The Life of an Air Attendant (BBC World Service)
Why We Cut Men: The Rise & Fall of Circumcision from Uganda to the USA (BBC World Service)
Dirty Secret: Sanitation & the Developing World (rx in India & Bangladesh for BBC R4)
Keep Digging: The Quest to Reach the Earth’s Mantle (BBC R4)
Anne Frank’s Trees (BBC R4 for Holocaust Day)
BBC Radio 1 Stories
The Leak with Tom Price (BBC Radio Wales)
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PRAISE FOR LISTEN AGAINST (BBC RADIO 4)
If the real world becomes too much, try Listen Against (Radio 4, Tuesdays at 6.30pm). It is so funny it will rearrange everything. Last week the pipe carrying BBC Three exploded, polluting all programmes around it; the BBC expanded into pizza delivery ("We can't leave it to the private sector..."); Gaby Roslin and Ed Stourton channelled to the centre of the Earth for Children in Need; the Dimblebys become News Brothers, a musical. Alice Arnold, Jon Holmes and company on Listen Against will brighten even the darkest evening.
Gillian Reynolds, The Telegraph
Were the Monty Python team starting out today, they might conceivably come up with something like the utterly fabulous Listen Against, supposedly a news round-up with Alice Arnold in the studio and Jon Holmes reporting. It's a glorious mixture of cannibalised cut-ups from the BBC's current affairs output and segments featuring Beeb figures playing themselves (Ed Stourton and Gaby Roslin, for example, on a Children in Need expedition to the centre of the Earth).
Much of it is directed at the BBC itself, and the triumphant stand-out last week was a rolling report from the scene of what Arnold called a "broadcastastrophe". "The pipe that pumps bad TV into the nation's digiboxes" had burst, and "gallons of terrible programmes" were spilling out, contaminating all the decent stuff with BBC3 output. "Awful programmes are threatening wildlife," said Holmes. "I saw a man trying to clean James Corden off a guillemot."
The emergency services were throwing episodes of Dad's Army down the shaft to try to stem the flow. And how much was escaping, Arnold inquired? "It's estimated at up to 3,000 scraped barrels a day," said Holmes.
Chris Maume, The Independent
What clever little sausages that Jon Holmes and his cutting crew are. Back for a third series of the show that cuts and re-edits radio and TV to great satirical effect, they turn their scatter guns on a range of targets, from David Mitchell and his takeover of all broadcasting to 24-hour rolling news coverage of a Jeremy Paxman on the rampage, randomly firing questions at passers-by. Joining in the joke and enjoying having the mickey taken out of them are John Humphrys, Jenni Murray and Richard Bacon. It's like Feedback, but with more blood and guts!
Frances Lass, Radio Times
Very funny (and rather rude) pretend radio show, real extracts from actual broadcasts mashed up into fantasy fictional contexts (Jeremy Paxman running amok and being chased by the police, for example). Jenni Murray, Richard Bacon and John Humphrys appear as themselves but others (David Mitchell, Evan Davies, Steve Wright) are edited into parodies of themselves. Excellent cast, tight production, sharp scripts and a glorious capacity to make telling fun of radio's daily excesses. The Robert Peston competition is a wow. Alice Arnold presents, perfectly.
Gillian Reynolds, The Telegraph
R4's Listen Against scripted flights of lunacy recalled the best of The Day Today. For the first time, a Satanist occupied the Today programme's Thought for the Day slot, recalling the time he sacrificed a goat and drank its blood ('That should give us all something to think about,' he concluded), while Compton Pauncefoot, controller of BBC Animal Entertainment, was questioned about offensive messages left on John Cleese's messaging service by the stars of Radio 2's The Monkey and the Parrot Show. He told presenter Alice Arnold: "As a result of this outrage, Radio 2 is to be bulldozed to the ground and in its place we're creating a spring meadow of quiet contemplation."
Nick Smurthwaite, The Stage
In these hi-tech modern times you now, of course, have the added opportunity of catching up with radio programmes you have missed or want to listen to again via the stations' websites. With so much on offer, Listen Against's Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes decided the copious amounts of material could do with a bit of drastic editing - in other words, they hoped to present all the right snippets but not necessarily in the right order.
Thanks to some clever editing, there were some funny news items from the previous week's radio, not least the contestant taking part in Ken Bruce's Radio 2 Popmaster quiz, who had an interminable list of people he wanted to say hello to and the light entertainment meltdown when a laptop containing the subjects for the next 10,000 episodes of Just A Minute was lost.
Lisa Martland, The Stage
Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes bring the glorious fantasy radio show where amazing things happen, like all The Today Programme presenters talking together and the hunt for Melvyn Bragg, who's gone missing, lost in an In Our Time machine he's built with tips gleaned on his many adventures in knowledge. Don't listen to this sitting on a rickety chair. It may collapse under the impact of your laughter. The "interview" between John Humphrys and PM Cameron on the state of their relationship and a discussion of Rastamouse in a new role are both sublime.
Gillian Reynolds, The Telegraph
A second run for the deadpan comedy that's like Feedback from a warped alternative universe. The show manages to mangle radio formats into unusual shapes before presenting them in an almost credible fashion, and as co-presenter Jon Holmes tells Radio Times, series two boasts: 'Today introducing controversial waterboarding torture techniques to grill politicians; a gritty HBO remake of Gardeners' Question Time in the style of The Wire; a fan convention for The Archers in Las Vegas; and Oliver Stone's new radio drama Peston." And tonight, after David Miliband's successful 'appearances' in series one, an equally peculiar Ed Balls sounds off, while John Humphrys is replaced by a real pit bull. Newsreader and voice of gravitas Alice Arnold once again has the task of announcing all this with a straight face.
David Brown, Radio Times
The best new comedy show in years’ Independent
“A drive-by shooting of a show” The Telegraph
“Inspired...the wit here is like that of Oscar Wilde” - Evening Standard
Beautifully Crafted and Sharp’ – Daily Telegraph
‘Quite simply the best comedy show on the radio’ - Heat
