Summary
Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie talk to Matthew Sweet about how humour changes and the targets of their TV comedy show which ran during the '70s and early '80s. A box set of the 67 half hour episodes is being released.
Producer: Harry Parker.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that is some level of genius. It also helps |
| 0:21.2 | it. It's a long time ago, right? It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream |
| 0:26.1 | van plays music when it's out of ice cream. Listen to evil genius on BBC sounds. |
| 0:32.1 | This is the BBC. So, you've succumbed. You heard the Arts and Ideas podcast calling to you, like that pie in the fridge. |
| 0:42.4 | Well, my name's Matthew Sweet, and I'm here to tell you that really there's no need to feel guilty. |
| 0:48.1 | Give in to your desires. We all need ideas. We all need the arts. And you're going to get them right here, right now, after this short message. |
| 0:57.5 | It's amazing how many recordings you can find these days of a favourite piece of classical music, |
| 1:02.6 | hundreds of Beethoven symphonies, Mozart concertos, Schubert sonatas or Verdi operas. |
| 1:08.1 | So wouldn't it be great to have someone to help you pick the very best? |
| 1:12.5 | Consider it done. I'm Andrew McGregor from BBC Radio 3's Record Review. Just download our podcast |
| 1:18.3 | and one of our experts building a library reviewers will guide you through a great piece of music, |
| 1:23.6 | comparing recordings, choosing the finest performances. Search for us wherever you pick up your podcasts. Record review. |
| 1:31.5 | Between 1970 and 1982, a television series was broadcast that, fearlessly, and not without |
| 1:38.3 | controversy, tackled the major issues of its historical moment. |
| 1:42.6 | Apartheid, nuclear war, censorship, Thatcherism, football hooliganism. |
| 1:48.0 | It wasn't World in Action or Panorama. |
| 1:51.0 | Those programmes may well have done the same, but their key personnel never dressed up as mice |
| 1:56.1 | in the course of their duties, or endured a vicious attack by glove puppets, |
| 2:01.1 | or whacked anyone over the head with a black pudding while shouting ecky-thump. |
| 2:05.6 | That's because they were not Graham Garden, Timbrook Taylor and Bill Oddy, |
| 2:09.8 | the 1970s comedy collective known as the goodies. |
| 2:14.2 | Goodies, Goody, goody, yum. |
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