John Shuttleworth (created and performed by Graham Fellows) is a versatile singer/organist from Sheffield in South Yorkshire. He’s married to Mary, a dinnerlady at a local primary school, with whom he has two teenage children: Darren and Karen. His musical talents are usually expressed through his PSS portable keyboard.
The Shuttleworths’ various adventures have featured on several radio shows, including The Shuttleworths with Fellows supplying all the voices and performing on his organ.
He also made a four-part TV series supposedly filmed by Worthington, 500 Bus Stops (the title being a parodying reference to Frank Zappa’s 200 Motels), about a UK national tour thwarted very early when his beloved Y-reg Austin Ambassador broke down, but then continued by public transport. The venues visited were invariably mundane and uninspiring, and situations experienced usually demoralising, but were optimistically dealt with as if they were defining moments in his career.
Ken Worthington is John’s next-door neighbour and sole agent.
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Two Margarines
on Loose Ends, BBC Radio 4, May 2006
Life Is Like A Salad Bar
on Loose Ends 13 February 1999 (during the Ken's Karvery tour)
I Can't Go Back To Savoury Now
Soundcheck gag
on Iain Lee's LBC radio show 21 June 2007
Romeo OAP
from Seven Songs By Sunset (1992, cassette), a comedy special in which John's manager, Ken Worthington, refuses to pay John unless he writes seven new songs by the end of the day. Part 1 | Part 2
Karen's Tangerine
on Radio 1 with Mark Radcliffe at Edinburgh 1994
John and Ken appeal to those who might pirate copy one of their cassettes
snippet from the Shuttleworth Live CD Chic Ken 2000
Mary Had A Little Lamb
on Later... with Jools Holland
Poor Ken
snippet from the Shuttleworth Live CD Chic Ken 2000
The A1111
on the Radcliffe & Maconie show on BBC 6 Music, 22 June 2016
Up And Down Like A Bride's Nightie
One Cup Of Tea Is Never Enough But Two Is One Too Many
I Can't Go Back To Savoury Now
live at The Big Chill festival 2010
Two Margarines
live at The Big Chill festival 2010
Graham and John on The Comedy Map Of Britain
Two Margarines
Another version - this time with Mark Radcliffe
Patrick Moore, Seán Cullen and Jenny Eclair on Radio Shuttleworth BBC Radio 4 17 November 1998
Katrina (and The Waves) Leskanich and Robert Wyatt on Radio Shuttleworth BBC Radio 4 23 March 2000
