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When Wagon Wheels Were Bigger

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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Now displaying: August, 2021
Episode 330 - Words, Words, Words 0
Aug 30, 2021

What do you get when you cross the Pink Windmill kids with Let's Pretend? This shambles about a load of over-enthusiastic stage school adults jumping about and singing whilst using half a dressing-up box.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling

Episode 329 - Alphabet Castle 0
Aug 23, 2021

Alphabet Castle is under siege by the soldiers of Number Castle, and they're pouring boiling oil over the parapets to burn all the Number people whilst battering rams smash through the walls!

Or, someone done a painting of a letter whilst wearing a cardboard crown.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling

Episode 328 - Budgie The Little Helicopter 0
Aug 16, 2021

Budgie is a helicopter with a face whose friends are a load of other vehicles with faces, and nobody wants you to make the comparison to all the other books and TV shows about vehicles with faces, but if you don't do that you have to talk about Sarah Ferguson instead.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling

Episode 327 - The Junglies 0
Aug 9, 2021

Jungle all the way with more jungle fun this week as we watch the Junglies, which is about the jungle and or things that may or may not be from the jungle. Read this out loud and let us know at which point the word jungle lost all meaning.

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling

Episode 326 - Juniper Jungle 0
Aug 2, 2021

Did you ever wonder what inspired Bobby Ball to write Juniper Jungle? Of course not, nobody cares about Juniper Jungle!

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W4B theme composed by John Croudy
W4B theme acoustic arrangement by Joe Beckhelling

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