The Grumbleweeds Radio Show
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| The Grumbleweeds' Radio Show | |
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 Cassette cover for "The Grumbleweeds" featuring one of the main characters; Wilf "Gasmask" Grimshaw |
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| Starring | Robin Colvill, Graham Walker, Maurice Lee, Albert Sutcliffe, Carl Sutcliffe |
| Station | BBC Radio 2 |
| Air dates | 1979 – 1988 |
The Grumbleweeds' Radio Show was a long-running comedy sketch show that aired for fifteen series' between 1979 to 1988 and was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 (and later repeated on BBC Radio 4). The show later became just The Grumbleweeds.
The Grumbleweeds' comedy team themselves were founders Robin Colvill and Graham Walker, along with Maurice Lee and brothers Albert Sutcliffe and Carl Sutcliffe, all from Leeds in the North of England.
Key characters played by the Grumbleweeds included Uncle Rubbish, a nostalgia buff; Wilf "Gasmask" Grimshaw and Uncle Nasty, who would interrupt with threatening and sarcastic comments. Impersonations of famous figures, especially Jimmy Saville (who also came from Leeds) were also featured.
This show was followed by Someone and the Grumbleweeds (featuring celebrity guests), which ran from 1989 to 1991.
The Grumbleweeds Radio Show won Best Radio Show Award in the Television and Radio Industries Awards of 1983, and transferred to television in the same year (paradoxically retaining the same name) but while the radio show was more targeted to an adult audience, their TV appearances were geared towards children and proved less successful.
Although the other members are no longer with the group (the Sutcliffe brothers left in 1988, Lee in 1998), Robin Colvill and Graham Walker still perform as The Grumbleweeds. [1]
