Graeme garden biography
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Born in Aberdeen on 18 February , David Graeme Garden read medicine at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He joined the Footlights in his second year, becoming President in Whilst writing and performing in the hit radio series I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again, he passed his final medical exams.
He had reached the crossroads in his career: entertainment or medicine, and chose the former.
His television career was launched as a writer and performer with Bill Oddie, Michael Palin and Terry Jones in the sketch show Twice a Fortnight (BBC, ).
Bill oddie net worthHe then created, with Tim Brooke-Taylor, Broaden Your Mind (BBC, ) and, with Bill Oddie thrown into the mix, the trio created The Goodies (BBC, ; ITV, ). In the long-running series Graeme's boffin character slowly evolved with each of his outrageous inventions into a mad professor.
Garden's medical training wasn't entirely wasted.
John Cleese and Graham Chapman were pre-occupied with developing Monty Python's Flying Circus (BBC, )