Episodes
| Series | Episode | Title | First Broadcast | Repeated | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 01 | Keyboards And Stringed Instruments | 20030804 | 20031007 | This edition looks at keyboards and stringed instruments. |
| 01 | 01 | Keyboards And Stringed Instruments | 20030804 | 20031007 | This edition looks at keyboards and stringed instruments. |
| 01 | 02 | Percussion Instruments | 20030805 | 20031008 | This edition looks at percussion instruments. |
| 01 | 03 | Nose Flutes | 20030806 | 20031009 | This edition features the extraordinary sound of the nose flutes of the Pacific Islands. |
| 01 | 04 | Kazoo | 20030807 | 20031010 | Richard Collins investigates the world of the musically inexpensive. The humble kazoo takes up the whole of today's show. Richard meets an all-female kazoo band from Boston, discusses technique with Tim Brooke-taylor and Graham Garden of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue and is subjected to the loud noise of Canada's Nihilist Spasm band, which features two customised kazoos, neither of which sounds remotely like a kazoo. |
| 01 | 04 | Kazoo | 20030807 | 20031010 | Richard Collins investigates the world of the musically inexpensive. The humble kazoo takes up the whole of today's show. Richard meets an all-female kazoo band from Boston, discusses technique with Tim Brooke-taylor and Graham Garden of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue and is subjected to the loud noise of Canada's Nihilist Spasm band, which features two customised kazoos, neither of which sounds remotely like a kazoo. |
| 01 | 05 LAST | The Swannee, Slide Or Song-whistle | 20030808 | 20031011 | Richard Collins concludes his exploration of cheap musical instruments from around the world with the swannee, slide or song-whistle. He visits Simon Topman of Birmingham's Hudson's Whistles, makers of the definitive acme slide-whistle, learns how the swannee takes the female role in I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, meets Oliver Postgate, creator of The Clangers and discovers how the creatures from outer space came to talk. |
| 01 | 05 LAST | The Swannee, Slide Or Song-whistle | 20030808 | 20031011 | Richard Collins concludes his exploration of cheap musical instruments from around the world with the swannee, slide or song-whistle. He visits Simon Topman of Birmingham's Hudson's Whistles, makers of the definitive acme slide-whistle, learns how the swannee takes the female role in I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, meets Oliver Postgate, creator of The Clangers and discovers how the creatures from outer space came to talk. |