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Eric Idle - Radio 5

Comedy: Sketch

Comedy: Music

The Python's first solo work, featuring sketches and music, first broadcast on Radio 1.

The Python's first solo work, featuring sketches and music, first broadcast in 1973 on Radio 1.

Eric Idle - Radio 5: From 19/05/1973

From 19/05/1973

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Enjoy the new panel game Absolute Rubbish. Comedy spoof with Eric Idle.

Enjoy the new panel game Absolute Rubbish and join the Radio 5 Club! Comedy with Eric Idle first on BBC Radio 1 in 1973.

Following his TV success with Monty Python in the 1970s, Eric Idle's first solo venture - predating BBC2's Rutland Weekend Television by a year - was his very own hour-long music and comedy shows for BBC Radio 1. 

Ever the innovator, Idle's Radio 5 pre-dated the real BBC network of that name by some 18 years!

Eric links his eclectic choice of music (from the Beach Boys to Joni Mitchell) with self-penned sketches, for which he provides all of the voices. 

Sketches include: unusual ways to join the Radio 5 Club and the latest headlines from The World at Radio One. 

A weatherman can't quite manage to sign off his bulletin - plus a new panel game called Absolute Rubbish.

Producer: Clive Burrows 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 1 - 247 medium wave and VHF - in May 1973.

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