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When Wagon Wheels Were Bigger W4B
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When Wagon Wheels Were Bigger is a weekly podcast that watches kids' TV from the eighties and casts a more cynical eye on the shows we used to love. Sometimes funny, usually disappointing, join your hosts Mark and Martyn and ruin a small part of your childhood week by week.
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Episode 461 - Mike, Mop and the Moke
Mike Amatt had a dog and a cat, and apparently that was enough to get TV shows commissioned in the eighties.
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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling
Additional musical contributions by R Gill -
Episode 460 - Albert the Fifth Musketeer
Historically, there were loads of musketeers, but only four of them were noteworthy, and only three get any credit. The fifth one is rubbish.
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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
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Episode 459 - The Get Along Gang
Animals dress up as humans and assume human-like lives in The Get Along Gang, which teaches lessons about friendship and teramwork and how to kill off all the humans probably.
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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
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Episode 458 - Chips Comic
Chips Comic was a show about a comic called Chips Comic, not to be confused with Chips, the comic in Whizzer and Chips comic. Also there's a bloke in a dog costume for some reason.
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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
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Episode 457 - Our Backyard
In the 1980s, everyone had puppets living next door. Borrowing your sugar, commenting when you wash your car, and confusing the human toddlers in the neighbourhood.
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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
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Episode 456 - The Buttercup Buskers
Some animals keep a man as a pet and make him sing and dance in the street for pennies, in this grim post-apocalyptic tale about the horrors of slavery or something.
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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling
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