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Stu Cooper

@stucooper1.bsky.social

Writer/script ed: sketch, panel shows, podcasts. Commissioned The Skewer-er, Lead Writer for BBC Breaking The News, OG Kirrin Islander. Relatively inoffensive views.

619 Followers  |  121 Following  |  32 Posts  |  Joined: 19.09.2023
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Breaking the News - Gareth Waugh, Ria Lina, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Val McDermid - BBC Sounds Des Clarke hosts Scotland's award-winning satirical news quiz.

If you missed it here's yesterday's episode of #BreakingTheNews And the first part of the episode will tell you what major news story broke during the recording.
(And features stuff by @stucooper1.bsky.social @swerytd.bsky.social and myself)
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21.02.2026 12:37 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Skewer - Series 15 - 2. ICE, ICE, baby - BBC Sounds Jon Holmes remixes the news into a satirical comedy concept album.

If you missed #TheSkewer last night you can catch it again here. Contains some stuff by us including a little Lego brick building.
(with @swerytd.bsky.social and @stucooper1.bsky.social )
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15.01.2026 22:35 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Breaking the News - Series 15 - TV: Episode 7 Des Clarke is joined by Daliso Chaponda, Jay Lafferty and Gareth Waugh to take a look back at the biggest stories making the headlines.

And if you missed last night's #BreakingTheNews you can listen to that here. And it also features some stuff by us, about football and Trump, our two great loves.
( @swerytd.bsky.social @stucooper1.bsky.social and me)
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22.11.2025 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Naked Week - Series 3 - Immigration, Espionage, and a game of Guess Who? - Epstein Edition - BBC Sounds The Naked Week tackles immigration, espionage and a game of Guess Who? - Epstein Edition.

If you missed it here's last night's #TheNakedWeek Great as always but then again we would say that as it features some stuff by us.
( @swerytd.bsky.social @stucooper1.bsky.social and me)
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22.11.2025 14:00 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Naked Week - Series 3 - Trump, Traitors, and RIP Tim Davie - BBC Sounds This week the team fundraise for the BBC, welcome a traitor, and necromance a potato.

Thrilled to have been part of the team for an incredible episode of #TheNakedWeek And pleased to work with Wes Streeting to give some publicity to a little known show called Celebrity Traitors.
(With @swerytd.bsky.social and @stucooper1.bsky.social )

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15.11.2025 09:20 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Breaking the News - Series 15 - TV: Episode 3 Des Clarke is joined by Jo Caulfield, Kim Blythe and Jamie MacDonald to take a wry look back at the stories making the headlines in Scotland and around the world.

Cracking panel and cracking show this week on #BreakingTheNews and even contains some stuff by us.
(us being @stucooper1.bsky.social @swerytd.bsky.social and me)
You can catch up with it here:
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26.10.2025 08:33 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

First time we've managed to get "perpendicular" in a punchline πŸ’ͺ

19.10.2025 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Breaking the News - Series 15 - TV: Episode 1 Des Clarke and special guests Felicity Ward, Chris Forbes, Kate Hammer and Marc Jennings break down the week’s news and put it back together again.

Breaking the News is back on your TV screens and the first episode features some stuff by us!
(Us being @swerytd.bsky.social @stucooper1.bsky.social and me)

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12.10.2025 13:21 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Skewer - Series 14 - Ep 3: Supercalifragilisticexpibraggadocious - BBC Sounds Jon Holmes remixes the news into satirically shaped sounds.

You can enjoy this week's episode of #TheSkewer here and it even includes a little alien courtesy of us.
(Us being @stucooper1.bsky.social @swerytd.bsky.social and me)

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25.09.2025 19:39 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Good to see my new Sainsbury's making parking easier for DJs.

14.09.2025 19:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dead Ringers - Series 26 - Dead Ringers Ep 4. Welfare woes and Wimbledon - BBC Sounds The Dead Ringers team are back to train their vocal firepower on the week’s news.

First time for @swerytd.bsky.social @sjmawhinney.bsky.social and I writing for Dead Ringers:
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12.07.2025 22:25 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Looks like even eating Lindt is now a case of red pill, blue pill

12.07.2025 22:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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After Party: The Skewer DJ Set β€” Crossed Wires Festival 2025 Jon Holmes and Tony Churnside from Radio 4’s multi-award-winning satire mix music with news in an exclusive bespoke DJ set. Expect cocktails by Public, freshly poured Guinness and food trucks from Pea...

Are you in Sheffield on Sunday? No, you’re probably not. But here’s a reason to be! #CrossedWires. Plus, tickets are free and there’s booze. crossedwires.live/podcast/afte...

03.07.2025 21:27 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
San Diego's enormous corpse flower looking like aN upside down ballerina.

San Diego's enormous corpse flower looking like aN upside down ballerina.

Maybe it's called a corpse flower because that's a dead ballerina stuffed in a bucket.

23.05.2025 05:24 β€” πŸ‘ 6255    πŸ” 1033    πŸ’¬ 135    πŸ“Œ 75
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It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

21.05.2025 11:31 β€” πŸ‘ 18607    πŸ” 4531    πŸ’¬ 73    πŸ“Œ 91
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The Skewer - Series 13 - Elections, 100 Days of Trump, and Trans Labyrinth - BBC Sounds The news remixed. This week - Elections, 100 Days of Trump, and Trans Labyrinth.

Catch up on last night's #TheSkewer here and you can enjoy the Cardinals going All or Nothing for the new pope and escaping the Matrix at the local elections from us.
( @stucooper1.bsky.social @swerytd.bsky.social and me)
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01.05.2025 12:07 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Upbeat brunch playlist to start the Bank Hol weekend: Radio Radio by Elvis Costello, Shiny Happy People by REM & Hot To Go by Chappell Roan

03.05.2025 10:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Something is Missing We’ve launched a powerful parody film trailer, β€˜Something is Missing’, to shine a spotlight on pancreatic cancer and the need for early detection.

Jon Holmes, Adam Parry and I made this video for Pancreatic Cancer UK… www.pancreaticcancer.org.uk/news-and-blo...

30.04.2025 21:33 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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Breaking the News - Felicity Ward, Raymond Mearns, Kathleen Hughes and Robin Morgan - BBC Sounds Des Clarke hosts Scotland's award-winning satirical news quiz.

So here it is, the last #BreakingTheNews of the current series. Enjoy it one last time before the break and you can even hear a few gags by us in there.
( @swerytd.bsky.social @stucooper1.bsky.social and me)
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19.04.2025 09:24 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Skewer - Series 13 - Gender, Easter, and The Dead Pope's Society. - BBC Sounds The week's news - satirically remixed. This week: The wrong toilets and a dead Pope.

You can catch up with this week's #TheSkewer here and it even includes some stuff by us.
( @swerytd.bsky.social @stucooper1.bsky.social and me)
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

24.04.2025 10:21 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We being @swerytd.bsky.social @sjmawhinney.bsky.social

13.04.2025 20:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Breaking the News - Mark Nelson, Elaine Malcolmson, Don Biswas and Kate Hammer - BBC Sounds Des Clarke hosts Scotland's award-winning satirical news quiz.

In Trivial Pursuit category news (S&L), there have been 2 big records this week. Ovechkin has broken Gretsky's goals record and we've hit 500 BTN gags broadcast. Basically the same.
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13.04.2025 20:16 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Although if you asked me which track I'm happiest exists, it would be Voice of Harold - look it up!

13.04.2025 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Have picked up loads of new songs to like from the REM series of @whatismusicpod.bsky.social. Here's the top of my playlist, although Losing My Religion is predictably the real #1

13.04.2025 20:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Loving this! (Cotswolds)

13.04.2025 19:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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two men wearing glasses are standing next to each other in front of a building with the number 4 on it . ALT: two men wearing glasses are standing next to each other in front of a building with the number 4 on it .

"But we would write 500 jokes and we would write 500 more."

Thrilled to say we got our 500th gag broadcast on today's #BreakingTheNews so a little gif for @stucooper1.bsky.social @swerytd.bsky.social and myself.

11.04.2025 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Naked Week - Series 2 - Performing, Potholes and Paddington - BBC Sounds This week, the team help Rachel Reeves with her Spring Statement, and fall in a hole.

If you've got the "headroom", @swerytd.bsky.social @sjmawhinney.bsky.social and I have written some of The Naked Week, including what may be the worst insult of Paddington in history
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29.03.2025 23:48 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So Salt(y tears) & Pauper?

27.03.2025 23:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Undoubtedly the poshest crisps I've ever seen

27.03.2025 12:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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If you've been stuck in outer space for the past 9 months you might have missed that a new series of #BreakingTheNews is well underway.
But the good news is you can catch the latest episode at 1.30pm on BBC Radio Scotland.

21.03.2025 11:49 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0