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Jon Holmes
Writer, Presenter & Producer,
Unusual
Jon Holmes is a multi award-winning writer, presenter, producer, and boss of indie production company 'unusual'. His Radio 4 satirical comedy The Skewer has notched up shelf-loads of international awards including Gold for Best Comedy at the UK Radio Academy Awards three years running. He's hosted his own shows on BBC 6Music, Xfm, 5Live, LBC, Radio X, Virgin and (a long time ago when he was young) Radio 1. He's since covered Saturday mornings and weekday breakfast on Radio 2, and worked on TV with the likes of Armando Iannucci and Harry Hill. He co-created Radio 4's Dead Ringers, and has precisely two BAFTAs. His also-award-winning travel writing has seen him arrested in Texas, crocodile hunting in Papua New Guinea, and hospitalised by a colony of sea urchins he encountered while diving off the coast of Puerto Rico.
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24-May-2023