Career
He also had major roles in Naked Video, Absolutely, Public Quiz, and Jeff Global"s Global Probe, and is the narrator of children"s television show Peppa Pig. Sparkes starred in the sketch show Naked Video, where he played Siadwel, the geeky bedsit poet who wore an anorak and glasses. The character also appeared when Sparkes was part of the British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 comedy programme Bodgers, Banks & Sparkes.
After killing off Siadwel in Naked Video, Sparkes revived the character in 2014 for a new series of radio shows for British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Wales, which was recomissioned a year later.
He was one of the team behind the Channel 4 sketch show Absolutely, which ran for four years between 1989 and 1993. Following an award-winning radio special, a new series for British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 was commissioned for broadcast in September 2015. is Coming was a long-running comedy series for Independent Television Wales.
As well as playing, the hapless host of a chat show, Sparkes also plays other characters within the programme, such as public singer Gwyn, Old Mr Ffff and Fishguard news reporter Hugh Pugh. Although the series ended in 2004, it returned in 2007 for a series of one-off specials.
He provides the voice of the narrator and some other characters in the children"s animated series Peppa Pig (in which the voice of fellow Absolutely star Morwenna Banks is also featured), in Shaun the Sheep he voices Bitzer the Dog and the Farmer.
He also voices Mr. Elf and King Marigold in Ben and Holly"s Little Kingdom. He also voices Professor von Proton in The Big Knights, Steven in A Town Called Panic, and Fireman Sam in the 2003-2005 series.
