>'In One Ear' was good, whatever happened to him?

Hear hear, his double-act banter with Clive "Little John" Mantle was great (remember the "what's the outside of a tree called?" routine later revived for the sadly-received BBC2 spinoff Hello Mum). Nick Wilton went on to do Fast Forward (theme music by Steve "In One Ear" Brown, also featured Floella Benjamin and Andrew (son of Harry) Secombe, then The Satellite Show, and even later still, a Childrens ITV programme called WYSIWYG (about 1992). Apparently he was/is married to the woman who was Veruca Salt in Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory. Now mainly does theatre, I think.

Incidentally, Jon - did you ever hear that episode of In One Ear they did the night the clocks went forward, and so they did the whole show as a 'rehearsal', plus warm-up from obnoxious comedian. Who was it? I know it wasn't any of the cast, was it producer Jamie Rix? Anyone else know?


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I think I vaguely remember that one.I have a recording of just 2 episodes, classics both of them... I love the 'Play For Today' spoof, in which 4 kids straight out of school wonder what to do with their lives:

Clive Mantle: Hey, wait a minute!... With my sense of rhythm... your songwriting... his guitar genius... her management skills... why don't we get together and form an advertising agency?

Oh, you had to hear it...

>I think I vaguely remember that one.I have a recording of just 2 episodes, classics both of them... I love the 'Play For Today' spoof, in which 4 kids straight out of school wonder what to do with their lives:
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>Clive Mantle: Hey, wait a minute!... With my sense of rhythm... your songwriting... his guitar genius... her management skills... why don't we get together and form an advertising agency?

I don't think I remember this one, actually. I caught on to it late, missed series 1 while it was on originally, heard the Christmas '84 special, then was spoilt rotten by the Series 1 Highlights fourpart, and series 2 straight after. Always worth hearing the early-evening repeats just to see which bits they censored or cut altogether.

Given I lived nowhere near the capital, it always seemed curiously thrilling, the idea of going out to watch a live radio show at the Paris Studios on chucking-out time on a Saturday night. But I was 15, and didn't go to London very often, so I missed my chance. Did anyone have the pleasure?

Nick Wilton was always good value on Carrott's Lib - remember the Ronco Hide Behind Card?

Nick Wilton was also that berk in the Interflora advert from a few years back The one when he was sprayed gold and dressed up as Cupid hiding behind a vase.Twat.

Justin done:

>BBC2 spinoff Hello Mum). Nick Wilton went on to do Fast Forward (theme music by Steve "In One Ear" Brown, also featured Floella Benjamin and Andrew (son of Harry) Secombe,

I've got one of these on tape. Joanna Munro (cf. That's Life) was also in it. Later, starred the That'll Be The Daewoo bloke (name temporarily forgotten) as Milt-On Keyn-es, a space alien fella that used to "interrupt" the programme a la that NTNON sketch with Rowan Atkinson ("...shogada-da..." etc).

>Now mainly does theatre, I think.

And those 'leccy ads they've got posted up 'round Manchester at the moment (possibly Gas - they're all selling it these days, though, eh?).

Cheerio

Steve

Nick appeared on Carrots Lib with Chris Barrie - both of them had worked together before on Radio 4's Son of Cliche, written by the fiarly unkown Rob Grant & Doug Naylor. I think some of the Carrot's Lib stuff was penned by them too - the humour seemed similar. This was back when Grant & Naylor were good of course, not trying to write funny versions of Star Trek.