The Remainders gang (myself, Finbar Hawkins & Jon Millington) have had a few sketches featured on Tilt, a BBC Radio 7 sketch show - so, finally got that credit on a BBC radio comedy show. My work here is done.
I think the most recent show is available on listen again, still, but this is the show’s page, which might prove slightly longer lived than any Listen Again link:
For every programme that makes it to air, there are many that die on the way, whether strangled at birth, brutally murdered along the way or eventually euthanised to put the audience out of their misery. It is these programmes that are the Remainders of radio broadcasting.
The Remainders is a sort of pilot for an almost sketch show for, pretty much, radio. It was written by me, Finbar Hawkins, John Millington and Sally Hawkins and features all of the above plus Bill Nash and Jack Tarlton.
It’s the show that’s big, not the giraffe.
This was a short series of tiny animated interstitials for Nickelodeon in the UK. Originally it was going to be a chat show hosted by a Giraffe in a Spacestation (although no one can remember why) but then he had as guests a pair of Goldfish with astronomical IQs and minimal attention spans and they took over.
Nickelodeon loved the Goldfish and wanted an entire series of them, which was a problem, since while I had a lot of jokes none of them concerned short term memory loss. Any kudos are due to the animators, JonJon, and the voice talent, including Bill Nash, John Millington and Sally Hawkins among others.
I created the characters and wrote the scripts.