Wibbley Wobbley Time Travel
Published on 2 April 2004 in Radio, BBC Radio 1, Marc Riley, Mark and Lard, Mark Radcliffe
Get the wibbley wobbley time travel effects on standby – I’ve dug out (for no other reason than I can) a bit of history. Yep it’s my very first post on a newsgroup. Good old usenet eh?
The group was uk.media.radio.radcliffe and my very first post, back in the heavy days of January 1997, was about the three second memory span goldfish.
A comedy feature from the old Graveyard Shift show on Radio 1, no one seems to remember a quality bunch of sketches featuring two goldfish in a bowl with a gallion. Google brings back just one result – a remnant of the sadly lost markradcliffe.co.uk site, which explains that the feature (known as Little and Large) was:
The adventures of 2 goldfish, Little who is quite small and Large who is largish, being goldfish they only have a 3 second memory.. er The adventures of 2 goldfish, Little who is…
Ho hum. I remember at least.
Update (31 Decemeber 2005) – ‘Scrawn and Lard – The Unofficial Mark Radcliffe and Lard Site’, formerly resident at markradcliffe.co.uk, is now back online at a new domain of scrawnandlard.co.uk.