Popular Culture
The BBC comedy series Not The Nine O'Clock News presented a sketch in which Griff Rhys-Jones, imitating the narrative manner of James Burke, delivered a passage of elaborately mischievous prose that concluded: "So, there we have it. It’s all really very simple, and if it isn’t, I make it up. So, until then, goodbye." He then exits the scene, but suddenly reappears: "Hello again. Ha! That fooled you, didn’t it; or, did it?"
The pop song The Black Hit of Space, by The Human League, mentions him in the final verse: "Get James Burke on the case". The song describes a gramophone record that distorts space and time when played, and how it affects the world. The reference is in the album Travelogue (1980), and coincided with the broadcast of Burke’s television programme The Real Thing, about human perception.
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