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| "Hello Cheeky DVD" |
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 Thanks to Andrew Pixley, Ian Greaves, and Andrew Williams for all posting or passing along the news that Network DVD has announced a release of all surviving episodes of "Hello Cheeky", the Yorkshire TV version of the hit 1970's radio show starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Junkin and Barry Cryer.
The DVD is scheduled for release in the UK on July 19th. It can be ordered from Network's website.
Here are the details from that page:
Hello Cheeky fearlessly brought Radio Two’s long-running 1970s comedy show to television, featuring the legendary talents of Goodies star Tim Brooke-Taylor, fellow I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue stalwart and comedy writer Barry Cryer, and writer and actor John Junkin; composer Denis King provided musical accompaniment (and frequently became the object of ridicule for the other three).
The half-hour shows were pre-recorded in front of a live audience and replicated the original series’ trademark mix of preposterous sketches, appalling jokes, raillery and general silliness. Improvisation abounded, with the occasional blunder retained in an irreverent approach summed up by Cryer as ‘Laugh-In without the gloss, only desperation and rot’. A typical show might feature advice on looking after an armadillo, teaching your dog to samba or making your very own space rocket from a yard of lint, an operation on a false moustache, or even a gala dinner with the officers and crew of the Nancie Celeste...
This first-time release on DVD contains all 12 existing episodes from 1976. Unfortunately episode 10 no longer exists in the archive.
Parts of Tim, John and Barry appear by permission of the Official Receiver. Other parts are played by people, with the exception of Denis King who appears by arrangement with the Natural History Museum.
Catalogue Number: 7953267
Time: 300 mins approx
Region: 2 / PAL
Subtitles: None
Sound: Mono / English
Picture: 1.33:1 / Colour
Number of Discs: 2
Classification: 15
Barcode: 5027626326746
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Mailout - 14th May 2010 |
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The following is a mailing from the Official I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Mailing List.
-----Original Message-----
From: ISIHAC Info [mailto:isihac@btinternet.com]
Subject: I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Mailout - 14th May 2010
Dear I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Mailing List Member,
I bring you notice of three rather exciting shows in the next month or two. They will take place as follows...
* Friday 28th May at the Sands Centre in Carlisle.
A recording for BBC Radio 4. Tickets are priced at £9, £7, £6 and £4, and are obtainable via the theatre's box office, from 9am on Tuesday 18th May.
The Box Office number is 01228 625222, and it stays open until 9.30pm.
Tickets can also be booked online via www.thesandscentre.co.uk or www.ticketweb.co.uk 24 hr tel: 08448 472276 (ticketweb). Online ticket purchases are made with TicketWeb and not the Sands Centre. Ticketweb has an allocation of seats to sell.
The show starts at 7.30pm (doors 7pm) and finishes around 10.15pm.
The recording features Jack Dee in the chair, with Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer and Colin Sell at the piano. The guest is Sandi Toksvig.
* Tuesday 29th June at the Corn Exchange in Cambridge.
Another recording for BBC Radio 4. Tickets are priced at £9, £7 and £5, and are obtainable via the theatre's box office on 01223 357851, from 10am on Wednesday 19th May.
Tickets can also be booked online at www.cornex.co.uk
To book online simply go to the what's on page and click on the 'book now' icon next to the show of your choice. Please note that only MasterCard, Maestro and Visa are accepted when booking online.
Tickets can also be purchased by calling in person at The Cambridge Corn Exchange Box Office, Wheeler Street, Cambridge CB2 3QB The box office is located on the same side of the road as the venue - 2 doors down. The Box office opening hours are Monday - Saturday 10am - 6pm (or 30 minutes after the start of a show on performance days). The phone lines close at 6pm.
The show starts at 7.30pm (doors 7pm) and finishes around 10.15pm.
The recording features Jack Dee in the chair, with Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer and Colin Sell at the piano.
The guest is David Mitchell.
* Friday 18th June at the Royal Festival Hall in London's Southbank Centre.
We will be performing our acclaimed 'live' theatre show as part of this year's Meltdown Festival at the Southbank. We have been invited to take part by this year's Festival Curator, the brilliant Richard Thompson (he of Fairport Convention etc). The show will be hosted by Rob Brydon and will feature a line up of Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer, Jeremy Hardy and Colin Sell at the piano. This is the online link for tickets: http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/dance-performance/tickets/im-sorry-i-havent-a-clue-53714
Tickets have started to sell for this event - so you'll need to book quickly.
Finally, thank you to all who came to the wonderful Memorial Concert for Humph on Sunday 25th April. I received many lovely emails from people who were there and enjoyed it. It was a terrific celebration of the great man.
If you didn't make it - don't despair. The show was recorded for Radio 4 (broadcast date TBC) and will be released in full on CD in due course. All money raised to go towards the Humph Trust, devoted to supporting and encouraging young jazz musicians.
That's about it for now. Hope to see you at one or more of the above.
With best wishes,
Jon Naismith
Producer, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Mailout 16.04.10 |
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The following is from the official "I’m Sorry I Haven't A Clue" mailing list.
Dear I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Newsletter Subscriber,
I bring news of the first recording in the Spring series of 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue'.
We will be recording the programme on the evening on Friday 30th April at the Centaur in Cheltenham.
The Centaur is a large venue located within Cheltenham Racecourse. This is the address of the venue: The Centaur, Cheltenham Racecourse, Evesham Road, Prestbury Pk, Cheltenham GL50 4SH, Tel. 01242 539 538.
We'll be performing two editions of 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue' to be broadcast on BBC Radio 4. The shows will be hosted by Jack Dee, and the panellists will be Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Jeremy Hardy, with Colin Sell at the piano. The evening starts at 7.30pm (door open 6.45pm) and should be finished around 10.15pm. It contains one 20 minute interval.
Tickets cost £9.50, £7.50 and £6 and will be obtainable via the Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham from 10am on Monday 19th April. These are the box office details:
For those wishing to pay for tickets in person, the Everyman's address is:
Everyman Theatre, Regent St, Cheltenham GL50 1HQ For those wishing to book by phone, The Everyman Box Office phone number is 01242 572573.
For those wishing to book online, the website address is www.everymantheatre.org.uk <http://www.everymantheatre.org.uk/
A direct link to the page just for the show will become active at 10am on Monday 19th April and is:
https://tickets.everymantheatre.org.uk/loader.asp?target=show.asp?shcode=2274
The Everyman box office is open Mon - Fri 9.30am - 8.30pm, though tickets won't be on sale for the show until 10am on Monday 19th April.
Tickets are limited to no more than four per applicant. They will be advertised only to subscribers to this newsletter and the 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue' mailing list until Tuesday 20th April, so book early to avoid disappointment!
Apologies to all who've not received replies to emails sent to this address recently. It's become a bit too large for me to manage, but help is at hand, and in the next month or so it should all be running properly again.
In other news, Graeme would like you to know there's a petition for anyone keen to see another Goodies DVD:
http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?2010gds&1
And Linda Smith's partner Warren would like you to know there's a 'gala comedy night' show in her memory at The Rose Theatre, Kingston-upon-Thames on Sunday 9th May at 7.30pm featuring Andy Hamilton, Jeremy Hardy, Sandi Toksvig, Arthur Smith and Hattie Hayridge.
With best wishes
Jon Naismith
Producer, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
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Posted by lisa at 17/04/2010 00:00 GMT |
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| Graeme will appear in "The Unbelievable Truth" next Monday |
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Graeme will be appearing in a second episode in the new series of "The Unbelievable Truth"; it will air on BBC Radio 4 next Monday, Mon, 19 Apr at 18:30 and then repeated the following Sunday at noon. The show will be available for a week after the Monday broadcast from Listen Again.
Use the "click here for more" link for a list of other upcoming shows of interest to Goodies fans.
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Posted by lisa at 14/04/2010 00:00 GMT |
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| Graeme in "The Unbelievable Truth" next Monday / ISIRTA Listen Again link |
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* Graeme will be on the panel in BBC Radio 4's "The Unbelievable Truth" next Monday, which is episode 1 in a new series. The show's broadcast will be available online from the Radio 4 website (www.bbc.co.uk/radio4); it will be available for a week after broadcast from Listen Again.
Here's a listing for this episode from http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rv4db: "David Mitchell hosts another series of the panel game in which four comedians are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past their opponents. Marcus Brigstocke, Henning Wehn, Lucy Porter and Graeme Garden are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: Sleep, Beer, Childbirth and Sir Isaac Newton. The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. The producer is Jon Naismith, and this is a Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4."
* The Listen Again link for this week's BBC Radio 7 repeat of "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again" (which is the episode with "Moll Flounders") is http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00rm4xh/Im_Sorry_Ill_Read_That_Again_Series_3_Episode_2/
* For the Barry Cryer fans - this week BBC Radio 7 is repeating "Barry Cryer's You Won't Believe This But...", in which Barry reads excerpts from his autobiography. The 15 minute episodes air Monday-Friday; the following link should give you the list of episodes available from Listen Again (episode 1 is available through next Monday).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/search/?q=you%20won't%20believe%20this%20but
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| Humphrey Lyttelton Memorial Concert - Sunday 25th April |
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The following is information from the official "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" mailing list about the April 25th memorial concert for Humphrey Lyttelton to be held at the Hammersmith Apollo. Tim and Graeme are among the celebrities taking part in the event.
Please note that tickets go on sale Monday, March 1st. Ticketing information is provided at the end of the announcement.
Clue fans should also note that Jack Dee will be chairing the Spring series of the radio series; as stated below, the recording dates will be announced in late March/early April.
-----Original Message-----
Dear I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Mailing List Member
This is to bring you news of a memorial concert for Humphrey Lyttelton on the evening of Sunday 25th April at the Hammermsith HMV Apollo, which is being organised by Humph's son Stephen, who has set up a charitable fund in his father's name to assist talented young jazz musicians. The concert will serve both as a memorial to Humph and a fund-raiser for the charity, which will operate in conjunction with the Royal Academy of Music's jazz department. The team from 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue' will be taking part, and tickets go on sale on Monday 1st March. You are advised to book early to avoid disappointment!
Here's how the concert describes itself:
Humphrey Lyttelton - A Celebration Concert
Launching The Humphrey Lyttelton Royal Academy of Music Jazz Award
Sunday 25th April HMV Apollo
The life and work of Humphrey Lyttelton, jazz musician and broadcaster, is celebrated in a unique concert that brings together band members, guest musicians and the I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue team for an evening of jazz and joviality that will raise funds for the Humph Trust.
Never one to revel in his own popularity, Humph got tremendous joy from encouraging and assisting the work of young jazz musicians. The aim of the Trust will be to build on this legacy by supporting and developing the careers of budding new talent.
The Humphrey Lyttelton Royal Academy of Music Jazz Award
Humphrey Lyttelton championed jazz music in the United Kingdom for his entire career. Having a more prominent position in the jazz scene than almost all other jazz musicians in the UK, this was clearly beneficial to an often under publicised form of music.
There is a lot to be proud of in jazz music coming out of the UK these days and The Royal Academy of Music has produced many of the exciting new wave of talented jazz artists on the current national/international scene.
"At the age of 15, I met Humph for the first time on a concert and his enthusiasm and encouragement had a profound effect on me, inspiring me to practise and also to feel part of a tradition and lineage. I was also even more pleased, when meeting Humph over subsequent years, that he always asked me how I was getting on and showed genuine interest! It is therefore a great pleasure to see this award set up in Humphrey Lyttelton's name at the Academy, to help create support and guidance into jazz for future generations of players."
Gerard Presencer, Head of Jazz, Royal Academy of Music.
The Concert
The line up for the evening features a glittering array of musicians and comedians paying tribute to Humph.
The Humphrey Lyttelton Bands:
Adrian Macintosh - Ray Wordsworth - Robert Fowler - Ted Beament - Tony Fisher - Tony Coe - Jimmy Hastings - Wally Fawkes - John Picard - Dave Green - John Barnes - Karen Sharp - Eddie Taylor - Eddie Harvey - John Rees-Jones
With Special Guests:
Courtney Pine - Elkie Brooks - Charlie Watts - Jools Holland - Ben Waters - Stacey Kent - Graeme Garden - Jack Dee - Tim Brooke-Taylor - Rob Brydon - Barry Cryer - Andy Hamilton - Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen - Jeremy Hardy - Acker Bilk and his Paramount Jazz Band - Tony Hawks - Tina May - Louise Parker - Sue Richardson - Colin Sell - Sandi Toksvig - Jim Tomlinson
Tickets: £45, £35, £25
For tickets please visit The HMV Apollo Website - http://venues.meanfiddler.com/apollo/home OR call Ticket Line: 08448 44 47 48.
Alternatively visit Ticketmaster - http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk
I will be sending details of the three Spring recordings of 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue' in late March/early April. The series will feature Tim, Barry, Graeme and Colin as usual, with Jack Dee in the chair.
With best wishes
Jon Naismith
Producer, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
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Posted by lisa at 28/02/2010 00:00 GMT |
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| "Whoops Apocalypse" DVD set to be released in the UK in March |
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Next month Network DVD in the UK will be releasing "Whoops Apocalypse – The Complete Apocalypse". The set will include both the television series and the film (in which Graeme makes an appearance).
Here's a description of the set from http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=72225:
Whoops Apocalypse – The Complete Apocalypse - Andrew Marshall and David Renwick's (Hot Metal, 2point4 Children, One Foot in the Grave) razor-sharp satire, chronicling the events leading up to World War Three. Featuring Barry Morse, John Barron, Richard Griffiths, Peter Jones, Geoffrey Palmer and Alexei Sayle, this 1982 comedy was a cult success for ITV. Four years later it was made into a feature film, which starred Peter Cook, Loretta Swit, Alexei Sayle, Rik Mayall, Richard Wilson and Graeme Garden. This set contains both the complete series and the film.
Extras include: Image Galleries for both TV Series and Film; Script PDF for Film and episode one of the series; Original Film Press Release Pack PDF.
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Posted by lisa at 24/02/2010 00:00 GMT |
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| Holiday repeats on BBC 7, Comedy Channel Aus, & NZ Comedy Central |
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Among the holiday offerings from BBC Radio 7 this year are repeats of Christmas episodes of "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" and "Hello Cheeky" plus Hamish & Dougal's Hogmanay Special".
Goodies fans in Australia who get The Comedy Channel can enjoy a Christmas Day showing of "The Goodies and The Beanstalk", whlie fans in NZ who get SKY's Comedy Central can see both "The Goodies & The Beanstalk" and "The Goodies Rule - OK?".
EDITED (on 24 Dec) to add: Graeme contributes to "The Story of Slapstick" on BBC 2 on Boxing Day.
For details about these as well as other upcoming shows of interest to Goodies fans use the "click here for more" link below.
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Posted by lisa at 23/12/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| ISIRTA returns to BBC 7 / Barry Cryer on Loose Ends |
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* Episode 5 in the current series of "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" airs later today on BBC Radio 4. It will be available for a week after broadcast from Listen Again.
* BBC Radio 7 is beginning another run of Bill, Tim, & Graeme's 1960's radio series "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again" (the series also starred John Cleese, David Hatch, and Jo Kendall). The show will air on Wednesdays. According to the latest issue of the station's newsletter, "In future weeks [BBC Radio 7 will] be bringing you some episodes that haven't been heard since their original transmission."
* Barry Cryer from ISIHAC appeared on BBC Radio 4's show "Loose Ends" this past Saturday, Dec. 12th. The show can be heard from the BBC iPlayer (at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00p7h3r/Loose_Ends_12_12_2009/) until this Saturday evening (19 December at 7pm London time).
* While this isn't Goodies news, I'll throw it in as long as I'm writing. Many of you were acquainted with "Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off" thanks to Graeme's writing contributions in the early series. Fans of the series may be interested to learn that a new series of "Giles" began today on BBC Radio 4; here's the listen again link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00p87r0/Giles_WemmbleyHogg_Goes_Off_Series_4_Episode_1/
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Posted by lisa at 14/12/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| Slapstick 2010 will include contributions from Tim and Graeme |
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The schedule for Slapstick 2010 (the silent comedy film festival in Bristol, England, to be held January 21-24) has become available. The good news is that Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor, and Barry Cryer will all be participating in multiple events over the course of the four day festival. Please note: there isn't a Goodies-specific event.
The festival's home page is http://www.slapstick.org.uk/ , from which you can download the festival brochure (the direct link for that is http://www.slapstick.org.uk/docs/Slapstick2010.pdf ).
Use the "click here for more" link below for a quick cut & paste of the sessions involving Tim and/or Graeme. Please consult Slapstick's official website/brochure for full details and ticketing information.
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Posted by lisa at 07/12/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| Graeme hosting Michael Palin session at Slapstick 2010 |
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Graeme Garden will once again be appearing at Bristol's Silent Comedy Festival this coming January. He is scheduled to appear at Slapstick 2010 as host of an evening billed as "Something Almost Completely Different", with special guest Michael Palin.
Here are the details listed on http://www.slapstick.org.uk/ :
Venue: Colston Hall
Booking: 0117 922 3686
Online: www.colstonhall.org
Thurs 21 Jan 2010, 7.30pm
£16/£12concs/£6 (under 11s)
Tickets are on sale for the event from http://www.colstonhall.org/whatson/Event1016 , which provides this description of the show:
Slapstick Silent Comedy Festival Gala Opening Night
Something ALMOST Completely Different
with very special guest Michael Palin
Hosted by Graeme Garden
Bristol's Slapstick Silent Comedy Festival invites you to a star-studded evening of classic comedy and live entertainment for its Sixth Slapstick Gala.
This unique event presents two great comedy icons. Comedy legend and and national treasure Michael Palin will be on stage to discuss his illustrious career in comedy, with fellow writer performer Graeme Garden.
On screen - in homage to Michael's travelling legacy - we present one of Buster Keaton's greatest comedies THE NAVIGATOR (1924), with the world premiere of a live musical accompaniment by The Slapstick Boys.
This newly- formed five-piece musical ensemble features Oscar-winning film animator and cornet virtuoso Richard Williams and world-acclaimed silent film maestro Günter Buchwald on violin and piano, along with their international friends.
With other celebrity guests on stage and on screen, this is a once-in-a-lifetime event not to be missed! Early booking is recommended to avoid dissapointment.
Website www.slapstick.org.uk
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Posted by lisa at 04/12/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| new series of ISIHAC starts next week (plus other upcoming shows) |
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Tim & Graeme's BBC Radio 4 show "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" returns with a new series on November 16th. Before then we have the final episodes in the current series of "The Unvarnished Truth" and "One", both of which feature Graeme this week.
Here's a blurb about the new series of Clue:
I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue Monday 16 November 6.30-7.00pm BBC RADIO 4
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, BBC Radio 4's legendary antidote to panel games, returns for its 52nd series.
In the role of chairman for the series is Jack Dee, taking part in recordings at the Old Vic Theatre in London, Chichester Festival Theatre and the Futurist Theatre in Scarborough.
Joining regular panellists Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden at the three recordings are Rob Brydon, David Mitchell and Jo Brand respectively. In the case of David and Jo, it is their first time on the show. Colin Sell provides piano accompaniment.
For a list of other upcoming shows of interst to Goodies fans use the "click here for more" link below.
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Posted by lisa at 08/11/2009 10:00 GMT |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Mailout 04.11.09 |
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The following is from the official I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue mailing list.
Dear I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Mailing List Member
This is to let you know that the final recording in the Autumn series of the show (which starts transmission at 6.30pm on Monday 16th November) will take place at the Futurist Theatre in Scarborough on Sunday 6th December. Jack Dee will be chairing the show with the regular panel of Tim, Barry and Graeme plus Jo Brand as special guest. Tickets will go on sale at 10am on Monday 9th November and are priced at £7.50 and £5. The tickets will be obtainable from the theatre's box office, either by telephone (Tel. 01723 365789 / 374500 / 370742) or by turning up in person. The theatre's address is: Futurist Theatre, Foreshore Road, Scarborough, North Yorkshire YO11 1NT. The box office hours are Monday till Saturday 10am till 6pm (Sunday 11am till 4pm). It's a large theatre (over 2000 seats) so we've been able to keep the ticket price down, and I'm hopeful that more people will be able to obtain tickets than is often the case, but as always it's best to book early as they will almost certainly sell out on the day they go on sale.
Thank you to all who attended our recording at the Old Vic on Monday 26th October and made it such an enjoyable evening. I hope the lottery ticketing distribution system was deemed to be a less frustrating booking process than before. The box office had six times as many applications for tickets as there were seats available, so it would appear we did the right thing. I look forward to seeing many of you at our recording in Chichester next Monday.
With best wishes
Jon Naismith
Producer, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
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Posted by lisa at 04/11/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| Listen Again links for shows with Graeme (Satsuma, One, Unbelievable Truth) |
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Here are Listen Again links for three radio shows with Graeme. Please note that the "available until" is the time in the UK (though the shows can be heard worldwide).
* The Unbelievable Truth - Series 4 - Episode 3
David Mitchell hosts the game show in which panellists are encouraged to tell lies and compete to see how many items of truth they are able to smuggle past their opponents.
With Arthur Smith, Phill Jupitus, Tony Hawks and Graeme Garden.
Available until: 6:02pm Monday 26th October 2009
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00n80b1/The_Unbelievable_Truth_Series_4_Episode_3/
* The Long Hot Satsuma Episode 8
Sketch show with Paul B Davies, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Julia Hills and Alison Steadman. From July 1989. Available until: 2:32am Monday 26th October 2009
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00njcy2/Comedy_Catch_Up_The_Long_Hot_Satsuma/
* One - Series 3 Episode 3
Sketch show written by David Quantick, in which no item features more than one voice.
With Graeme Garden, Dan Maier, Johnny Daukes, Deborah Norton, Katie Davies, Dan Antopolski, Andrew Crawford and David Quantick.
Available until: 10:17pm Wednesday 28th October 2009
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00n8pdm/One_Series_3_Episode_3/
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Posted by lisa at 23/10/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Mailout 19.10.09 |
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The following is a message from the official I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue mailing list.
-----Original Message-----
From: ISIHAC Info [mailto:isihac@btinternet.com]
Subject: I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Mailout 19.10.09
Dear I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Mailing List Member
This is to bring you news of the first two recordings in the forthcoming series of 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue'.
As you may have heard recently, Jack Dee has been confirmed as host for this series.
Our first recording is at the Old Vic Theatre, The Cut, London SE1 8NB, on Monday 26th October. Tickets are £10, £8 and £6. The panel will comprise the regulars (Tim, Graeme and Barry) plus Rob Brydon. The recording starts at 7.30pm and will finish no later than 10.30pm. As the theatre is in London and not large (around 1000 seats) and in the light of the huge inconvenience many people suffered trying to book tickets to the show at Her Majesty's Theatre in April, I have decided to take the advice many of you have been giving me and set up a lottery system for this recording via the Ambassadors Theatre Group ticketing agency used by The Old Vic. If you are free on the date and would like to attend the recording, to take part in the lottery, you need to click on this link:
http://www.ambassadortickets.com/form.aspx?id=33
Simply follow the instructions and fill in the form. You have until 6pm tomorrow (Tuesday 20th October) to have registered your interest in buying tickets - then the ATG booking office will make a random selection. To increase people's chances of getting tickets and hopefully cut down on the touting of tickets, we've restricted them to no more than 2 per applicant.
So - fingers crossed.
Our second recording is at the Festival Theatre, Oaklands Park, Chichester, West Sussex P019 6AP on Monday 9th November. Tickets are again £10, £8 and £6, and again the recording will feature the regular panel plus this time special guest panellist David Mitchell. Again the recording starts at 7.30pm and will finish no later than 10.30pm. Tickets for this show are again limited to 2 per applicant and can be obtained from 10am tomorrow (Tuesday 20th October). They are bookable 24 hours a day at www.cft.org.uk http://www.cft.org.uk/ or via the theatre's box office on 01243 781312 which is open Monday-Saturday from 10am-8pm (6pm when no performance). You would be strongly advised to book early!
Very sorry to the many of you who have been kind enough to send emails to this address. I've been on tour and just haven't had a moment to deal with any of them. I'm not going to get through the backlog for a while - apologies.
With best wishes
Jon Naismith
Producer, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
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Posted by lisa at 18/10/2009 23:00 GMT |
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| ISIHAC ranks highly in influential viewers' group poll |
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From http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/6276001/BBC-Radio-4s-Today-programme-named-the-most-admired-show.html
BBC Radio 4's Today programme named the 'most admired' show
BBC Radio 4's Today has been named as the ''most admired'' programme in British broadcasting by an influential viewers' group.
Published: 7:00AM BST 09 Oct 2009
The agenda-setting news programme topped a list of the 25 most respected shows of the past quarter century to mark the 25th anniversary of the Voice Of The Listener And Viewer.
Leading programme makers and broadcasters were among those who cast their votes.
The accolade comes shortly after the programme provoked the ire of broadcasting minister Ben Bradshaw who complained it was ''biased'' towards the Tories.
Radio 4 controller Mark Damazer said: "We will celebrate soberly and parsimoniously – but we are much cheered. And more than 25 years after the arrival of breakfast television Today goes from strength to strength.
"There remains a huge appetite for the programme – the occasional wart and all. Because it delivers impartial, vigorous, broad and – yes – witty journalism that is unmatched at that time of the day. By a crack team."
Presenter John Humphrys and editor Ceri Thomas collected the award at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in London on Wednesday night.
Second in the largely highbrow list was the BBC Proms, the world's largest music festival.
Jewel In The Crown and Inspector Morse were the top-ranked dramas, while Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue – whose long-time presenter Humphrey Lyttelton died last year – was the highest placed comedy.
Richard Lindley, chairman of voice of the Listener and Viewer, said: "These are tough times for broadcasting, with nobody yet sure how we are going to pay for high quality programmes in the future.
"VLV has always campaigned to keep British broadcasting the best in the world. We want this celebration of our 25th anniversary to encourage everyone to make sure we don't let this great British success story end."
Six million listeners tune in every week to catch the Today programme, which has been running since 1957.
The list of the 25 most admired programmes is:
1. Today (BBC Radio 4)
2. The BBC Proms (BBC Radio 3 and BBC TV)
3= The Jewel in the Crown (ITV, 1984)
3= Inspector Morse (ITV)
5= I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (BBC Radio 4)
5= Planet Earth (BBC TV, 2006)
7. Blackadder II (BBC TV, 1986)
8. Death of Yugoslavia – Wars Of Independence (BBC TV, 1995)
9. Bleak House (BBC TV, 2005)
10. Our Friends in the North (BBC TV, 1996)
11. The Singing Detective (BBC TV, 1986)
12. Death On The Rock (This Week) (ITV, 1988)
13= From our own Correspondent (BBC Radio 4)
13= Edge of Darkness (BBC TV, 1985)
15. The Spy Who Never Was (World in Action) (ITV, 1984)
16= In Our Time (BBC Radio 4)
16= 28 Up (ITV, 1984)
16= The Two Ronnies (BBC TV)
19= Dispatches (Channel 4)
19= South Bank Show (ITV)
19= State of Play (BBC TV, 2003)
19= Channel 4 News (Channel 4)
19= The Thick of It (BBC TV)
19= Newsnight (BBC TV)
25. Test Match Special (BBC Radio 5 live Sports Extra)
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| ISIHAC tour review from the Liverpool Daily Post |
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"I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" tour review from the Liverpool Daily Post (at http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-life-features/liverpool-arts/2009/09/30/review-i-m-sorry-i-haven-t-a-clue-southport-theatre-92534-24815045/ )
REVIEW: I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue, Southport Theatre
Sep 30 2009 by Peter Elson, Liverpool Daily Post
LIKE a comedy comfort blanket, the I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue stage show wrapped itself warmly around a packed Southport Theatre.
The stage version of the iconic, yet iconoclastic Radio 4 antidote to panel games was indistinguishable from its parent, complete with series producer Jon Naismith acting as warm-up man.
Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor have been panellists with the radio show for 38 years – and that’s as long as I've been faithfully listening to it.
Like many of the audience, I could mouth along to some of the routines, such as the Julie Andrews Censored Song Book.
So-called “newcomer” Jeremy Hardy has been with this celebration of silliness for years and is equally adept at the quick wit for which the show is famed.
But the big problem has been finding a substitute chairman for the late, great Humphrey Lyttleton.
Luckily, his successor here, Jack Dee, has a comic persona strong enough to effortlessly anchor the mayhem.
The panel may be looking a bit jowly, paunchy and grey-haired, but their enthusiasm and comic timing are undimmed.
But then, what’s not to like in a show where you walk away at the end of the night with a free kazoo?
PETER ELSON
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Posted by lisa at 30/09/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| new series of "The Unbelievable Truth" & "One" with Graeme start next week |
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New series of "The Unbelievable Truth" and "One" start on BBC Radio 4 next week. Graeme will make appearances in both series. Below are blurbs about both series,. Use the "click here fore more" link below to see a list of other upcoming shows.
THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH
Six episodes starting Monday, 5 October
6.30-7.00pm BBC RADIO 4
David Mitchell hosts the fourth series of this acclaimed general knowledge-based comedy panel game, in which four comedians are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another to see how many items of truth they are able to smuggle past their opponents.
Each panellist has to deliver a lecture on a given topic - for example Elizabeth I, Cats, The Human Body or Morris Dancing - which must be entirely untrue, except for five unlikely facts. The job of their opponents is to challenge if they think they've detected an element of truth.
Devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the team behind BBC Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, the new series begins with a special recording from this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival featuring comedians Rhod Gilbert, Adam Hill, Shappi Khorsandi and Reginald D Hunter.
Presenter/David Mitchell, Producer/Jon Naismith
ONE
Six episodes starting Wednesday 7 October 11.00-11.15pm BBC RADIO 4
The sketch show in which each sketch features only one voice, returns for a new series.
The comedy features internal monologues, speeches, video diaries, messages, broadcasts, dictation - any form of solitary communication or monologue, with one voice only per sketch.
One is written and conceived by David Quantick with additional material by Graeme Garden, Dan Maier, Kevin Cecil, Johnny Daukes and Katie Maskell. It features the vocal talents of Deborah Norton, Lizzie Roper, Johnny Daukes, Dan Antopolski, Graeme Garden, Andrew Crawford, Alistair McGowan, Richard Bacon, Dan Maier and David Quantick.
Producer/Jon Naismith
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Posted by lisa at 29/09/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| The Guardian's "Comedy preview" of the ISIHAC tour |
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From http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/sep/26/sorry-havent-clue-tour
Comedy preview: I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, on tour
James Kettle
The Guardian, Saturday 26 September 2009
Like Private Eye, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue is one of those comic institutions where the idiosyncrasies and familiar jokes are glorious fun for the initiated, but mildly baffling to the outsider. If you're yet to master the non-rules of Mornington Crescent or blind to the enormous humorous value of the words "Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia", then do persevere. Sooner or later it's going to hook you, and you'll wonder how you ever sat in an early evening tailback without it. Now, just a few years from its 40th anniversary, Clue is still delivering top-drawer consistency, despite the passing of beyond-legendary chairman Humphrey Lyttelton. Master of ceremonies for this tour is Jack Dee, providing a deadpan pivot for the flurry of puns and silliness to be expected from regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor.
• Centaur, Cheltenham, Sat; New Wimbledon Theatre, SW19, Sun; Symphony Hall, Birmingham, Mon; Southport Theatre, Tue; Grand Opera House, York, Wed
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Posted by lisa at 25/09/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| review of Portsmouth ISIHAC stage show (contains SPOILERS) |
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Here's a brief review of the I’m Sorry I Haven't A Clue stage show at the Portsmouth Guildhall. It does contain some spoilers. (A list of other upcoming dates can be found in our FAQ.
From http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/entertainment/I39m-Sorry-I-Haven39t-A.5666866.jp
I'm Sorry, I Haven't A Clue
At Portsmouth Guildhall
22 September 2009
By Simon Evans
I've been a listener to the comic meanderings of the ISIHAC (as they are known for short!) team for as long as I can remember, but never seen them perform on stage before.
I was worried. Would seeing the show be as much fun as just hearing it?
The worry was misplaced. The teams; Tim Brooke-Taylor with Jeremy Hardy and Graeme Garden with Barry Cryer were on good form. Although much of the show is scripted there is room for improvisation.
The music rounds have always made me laugh most and tonight – with the marvellous Colin Sell on piano – we witnessed a treat. In Old Songs New Words we saw Barry Cryer perform an admirable My Old Man's A Dustman to the tune of Heartbreak Hotel but the limelight was stolen by the musically challenged Jeremy Hardy whose Kung Fu Fighting sung to the tune of Scarborough Fair was hilarious.
Many of the old-favourites made an appearance; the slogan round (Portsmouth: Gateway To Havant was one gem), and Uxbridge English Dictionary ('insolent' redefined as: 'to fall off the Isle Of Wight ferry).
The second music round, Pick Up Song where the contestant is asked to sing along to a song which is faded out, attempting to keep pace when it's faded back in again, proved to be my highlight.
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Posted by lisa at 22/09/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Mailout 16.09.09 |
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Here's a message from the official I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue mailing list:
Dear I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Mailing List Member,
Just to let you know we will be announcing the venues and hosts for the forthcoming series of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue in early October. It is our intention to continue with different hosts for each show, at least for the next series.
Meantime, we are soon to be in the midst of a small tour of the UK. Do come and see the show if you can. We had a terrific reception in Woking and Carlisle for the July dates.
The show stars the regular team with Jeremy Hardy our guest panellist and Jack Dee in the chair.
Apologies to those who booked in Dartford only to find the show was cancelled due to a power cut. We were waiting in a nearby hotel to see if the power could be restored in time. Alas, it couldn't.
Most of these tour dates are completely sold out, but some do still have tickets available. Our booker Helen Chattwell has been phoning round the theatres to see if they can come up with any offers exclusive to members of our mailing list. Here's what she's managed:
SEPTEMBER
Fri 18 - MANCHESTER OPERA HOUSE (0844 847 2295) Are offering £5 off tickets in the Grand Tier to members of this list. The offer is only available by phone, and you need to quote the password 'Jack Dee'.
Sun 20 - BRISTOL HIPPODROME (0844 847 2325 or www.ticketmaster.co.uk/venue/189858)
Are also offering £5 off tickets in certain seats. The offer is available over the internet (password 'Mornington') and with the password 'Mornington Crescent offer' if booking by phone.
Mon 21 - PORTSMOUTH GUILDHALL (023 9282 4355) Are also offering £5 off selected seats to members of this list. It's only available to phone bookers, and you need to quote the password 'Mornington Crescent'
Sat 26 - CENTAUR CHELTENHAM (01242 572573 booking via the Everyman Theatre Box Office) Will offer £5 off selected seats to members of the mailing list, but only if they telephone the box office and quote the 'Mornington Crescent' password.
Sun 27 - NEW WIMBLEDON THEATRE (0844 871 7646 or www.ambassadortickets.com/New-Wimbledon-Theatre)
Are offering a discount on tickets to an added matinee performance at 2.30pm just to members of this mailing list. They say: 'On the 19th September we will release 100 tickets at a special price of £19 especially for ISIHAC fans. Available on Price Band A and B, matinee performance only. Only available by calling the box office on 0844 871 7646'.
You need to say you're on the mailing list and our calling about the discounted tickets.
Each show starts at 7.30pm and should be finished by around 10pm.
Finally, I should alert you to the fact that a book entitled 'The Clue Bible - The Fully Authorised History of 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue', from Footlights to Mornington Crescent', by Jem Roberts, is shortly to be published by a division of Random House. We'll have an offer for members of the mailing list in the next mailout. Meantime, here's how the book describes itself: "The official, definitive, exhaustive, complete, history and doings of the antidote to panel games: I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. With forewords by Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor".
That's about the size of it. We'd like to thank you all for your continued support, and look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at our forthcoming shows.
With best wishes
Jon Naismith
Producer, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
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Posted by lisa at 16/09/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| Satsuma link / Graeme interview / Humph in Oxford Dictionary of Quotations |
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A couple of news stories from the last few days.
* The Listen Again link for episode 4 of "The Long Hot Satsuma", which made its BBC Radio 7 debut today, is at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00mq4pf/The_Long_Hot_Satsuma_Episode_4/ The show, which features Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer, & Alison Steadman, can be heard through next Tuesday evening (London time).
* An interview with Graeme, to promote the I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Official Stage Tour, appeared in yesterday's edition of the Liverpool Daily Post. Use the "click here for more" link below for a cut & paste of the article.
* A quote from Humphrey Lyttelton is to appear in the new edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. The quote is: "As we journey through life, discarding baggage along the way, we should keep an iron grip, to the very end, on the capacity for silliness. It preserves the soul from desiccation". The full story, from The Telegraph, can be read using the "click here for more" link below.
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| The Long Hot Satsuma episode 2 / ISIHAC Volume 11 |
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* The second episode of "The Long Hot Satsuma" (starring Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer, & Alison Steadman) was aired on BBC Radio 7 for the first time yesterday. The show can be heard worldwide for a week (until Tues, 8 Sept at 10:30pm London time) from the BBC iPlayer at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b007k3q5/The_Long_Hot_Satsuma_Episode_2/
* I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Volume 11 has been released; it is available as a 2 CD set and also as a digital download. The latest set includes four compilation episodes featuring chairman Humphrey Lyttelton, panelists Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, & Barry Cryer, and guest panelists Stephen Fry, Jack Dee, Rob Brydon, & Jeremy Hardy. Perhaps not coincidentally, Stephen, Jack & Rob were the guest chairs for the most recent series of Clue (which was broadcast a few months ago on BBC Radio 4).
Here's a more detailed description of the set from
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Im-Sorry-Havent-Clue-Audio/dp/1405688378/ :
Another four compilations from the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series. This eleventh collection of the antidote to panel games finds the late Humphrey Lyttelton giving regular panelists Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden silly things to do to - along with special guests Stephen Fry, Jack Dee, Rob Brydon & Jeremy Hardy. Highlights include One Song to the Tune of Another, 84 Chicken Cross Road, Sound Charades, Notes & Queries, Uxbridge English Dictionary, Tennis Chat-up Lines, Swanee Kazoo and, of course, the brilliantly baffling, fiendishly funny Mornington Crescent. So get ready to laugh out loud as Humph and the gang indulge in more wonderful wordplay, accompanied by Colin Sell on the piano and the lovely Samantha, who likes to sit on Humph's left hand. 'Risky, rude, brilliantly written and superbly performed' - The Judges, Sony Radio Academy Awards.
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Posted by lisa at 02/09/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| reminder/updates about ISIHAC official stage tour |
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Just a reminder that the 2009 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Official Stage Tour resumes in a few weeks. Here are updates about a few venues:
* Wimbledon - has added a 2:30pm show in addition to the 7:30pm show (both on Sept. 27th)
* Basingstoke - the 7:30pm show has sold out. Tickets are still available for the 2:30pm show
* Leicester - currently sold out online. Please contact the Box Office (on 0116 233 3111) for current availability
Please visit our FAQ for a more detailed list which includes URLs to the venues, box office phone numbers, and online booking links.
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Posted by lisa at 02/09/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| radio repeats / Unbelievable Truth tickets |
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* BBC Radio 4 is repeating the first series of "I've Never Seen Star Wars" on Thursday nights. Tim appeared in the fifth episode, which should air on September 17th.
* BBC Radio 7 is repeating two series in which Graeme contributed as a writer or script editor. The first series of "The Hudson & Pepperdine Show" is being repeated on Monday evening. Starting next week the first series of "Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off" returns on Wednesday evenings.
* The first episode of "The Long Hot Satsuma" is available from the BBC iPlayer at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b007jwxv/The_Long_Hot_Satsuma_Episode_1/ until next Tuesday at 10:30pm London time. Note that this episode is one of the two which have previously been repeated by BBC Radio 7 (it features a Tennessee Williams parody).
* Many thanks to Jenny_Gibbon for posting the following in the www.goodiesruleok.com forums:
I got a mail out from the BBC audience ticket list. The next series of The Unbelievable truth is being recorded next month. And Graeme's in the cast list.
Here's a copy of the mailout.
The Unbelievable Truth
10 and 17 September, Shaw Theatre
Book now
David Mitchell hosts the fourth series of The Unbelievable Truth.
A panel game in which panellists are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another to see how many items of truth they are able to smuggle past their opponents
Panellists will be:
Henning Wehn
Clive Anderson
Fi Glover
Dom Joly
Arthur Smith
Phill Jupitus
Tony Hawks
Graeme Garden
Recording on Thursday 10 and 17 September at the Shaw Theatre, 110 Euston Road, London NW1 2AJ. Doors open at 7pm.
To apply for tickets, visit the BBC Tickets Website or call the BBC Ticket Line on 0370 901 1227*.
We look forward to seeing you in our audience very soon.
Kind regards
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Posted by lisa at 28/08/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| BBC7 repeats full series of "The Long Hot Satsuma" starting Tues, Aug. 25 |
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On Tuesdays starting 25 Aug, BBC Radio 7
(www.bbc.co.uk/radio7) will be repeating the full eight-episode series of "The Long Hot Satsuma", the late 1980's radio series starring Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer, and Alison Steadman. Each episode will be available for a week after broadcast from Listen Again.
Use the "click here for more" link below to see information about other upcoming shows of interest to Goodies fans.
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Posted by lisa at 23/08/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| Bill's episode of "Raiders of the Lost Archive" coming up at last |
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"Raiders of the Lost Archive" episodes 2 & 3 are finally being screened on ITV on Tues, July 21st & 28th. The first episode should air at 22:30; check your local listings to confirm times for both episodes. Bill Oddie appears in the second edition, which includes clips from "BBC3" and "Engelbert and the Young Generation". (Thanks to Sosia & Andrew Pixley for this info).
Also of note, Goodies repeats are currently running on The Comedy Channel in Australia and Comedy Central New Zealand
For a list of other upcoming TV & radio shows of interest to Goodies fans use the "click here for more" link below.
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Posted by lisa at 14/07/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| Tim & Graeme to appear at Sydney's World's Funniest Island Festival in Oct |
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More details at last about Tim & Graeme's return to Australia, as reported in today's Sydney Morning Herald (at http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/arts/comedy-castaways/2009/07/09/1246732417051.html):
Comedy castaways
July 10, 2009
Cockatoo Island is about to host a weekend of wall-to-wall laughs, writes Elissa Blake.
An ambitious new comedy festival is aiming to turn Cockatoo Island into an annual laugh extravaganza. It plans to feature dozens of local and international acts ranging from burlesque, street theatre and student reviews to renowned comics, a controversial musical and even a clever remake of Mad Max with overdubs.
"This is a festival for a city with attention deficit disorder," cackles John Pinder, director of World's Funniest Island, the "world's first all-day, all-evening comedy festival", which takes over the Sydney Harbour venue on October 17-18.
"We know Sydney is a city that wants things to happen right now and be over by Monday morning. So this will be like a rock festival, only full of hilarious comedy."
World's Funniest Island will feature more than 200 international and local comedians performing in 18 venues over two days. One of the headline acts will be legendary British comedian, actor and author Alexei Sayle, best known as the students' landlord in The Young Ones, for the spoken word hit 'Ullo John! Got A New Motor? and a minor yet memorable role in Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade.
"Alexei Sayle is one of a pantheon of great British comedians," Pinder says. "They had a little show in a London strip club and Alexei would host the show saying, 'Hello I'm an alternative comedian and I'm non-racist, non-sexist and not f---ing funny!' Then he'd have a string of jokes that are totally unprintable," Pinder says.
Sayle will perform two shows at the World's Funniest Island. One is based on excerpts from a selection of the comic novels he's written over the past decade. The other will be an "Evening With Alexei Sayle", with anecdotes from his time with The Young Ones and the Comic Strip Club. "He's older and balder now but still incredibly funny," Pinder says.
Some of the other early acts announced include British comedy legends The Goodies' Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden in a show hosted by The Chaser's Andrew Hansen (see box), stand-up comics Wil Anderson and Fiona O'Loughlin and radio stars Merrick and Rosso.
The controversial new comic musical Beaconsfield: The Musical, a hit of the Melbourne Comedy Festival, is also part of the line-up. Other musical acts include the
a capella choir Spooky Men's Chorale and Die Roten Punkte, an outrageous - allegedly German - rock act. There will also be a whole venue dedicated to all-day student revue-style comedy sponsored by the University of Sydney.
At the end of each night, Mad Max The Remix, a crazy one-hour comic cut-up of all three Mad Max films by performer Eddie Sharp, will screen with overdubs by a team of live actors. The story follows Max, the greatest dancer of all time, on his quest to join Miss Tina's prestigious Bartertown Dance academy.
More headline acts will be announced on July 14 when the website goes live (worldsfunniest island.com) with more to be announced in the coming weeks.
Cockatoo Island, which has already played host to the Biennale of Sydney and the Nick Cave-curated music festival, All Tomorrow's Parties, will be crawling with street performers, musicians and stand-up comics during the two-day festival. There will be more than 60 market stalls, 20 food outlets and 15 bars. The festival is an all-ages event with children under five allowed in free with an adult, there will be over-18 wristbands to purchase alcohol and some shows will be adults only.
Ferries will run in three shifts in the morning and late at night with punters being asked to nominate their preferred departure time (from Circular Quay or King Street Wharf) at the time of ticket purchase.
"If you come early there will be a breakfast gala showcasing a potpourri of performers that you can choose to see again later in the day," Pinder says. "Then there will be a big bang of headline acts around midday and peak shows mid-evening. Everyone will be out by 1am at the latest and they can come back the next day and do it all over again."
A group claiming to be not a comedy act is riotous Die Roten Punkte. Brother and sister Otto and Astrid have been stunning audiences throughout the world with their high-energy Ramones-meets-the Cure tomfoolery. "Our manager keeps booking us into comedy festivals but ve are real rock and roll," Otto insists in his flamboyantly German-accented English. "Sometimes ze people are laughing but ve don't mind. Ve are playing at ze end of both nights unt ve just vant people to rock out, ja!"
WORLD'S FUNNIEST ISLAND
October 17-18, 10am-midnight, Cockatoo Island, one-day pass $120, two-day pass $210. One ticket offers access to all shows on that day. Tickets on sale July 20.
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Posted by lisa at 10/07/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Mailout - UK Tour Dates 2009 |
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Here's a mailing from the official ISIHAC mailing list about the upcoming tour.
Please note that some of the shows are starting to sell out. If a show is sold out online it may be worthwhile calling the box office, as they sometimes have a separate allocation of tickets.
Dear I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Mailing List Member,
I hope you have been enjoying the new series of the programme. I've been inundated with emails in praise of Jack Dee's recent chairmanship, which is just as well, as Jack will be hosting our third UK Tour of the show, which starts with three dates in July, and continues in late September and early October. Apologies to those of you in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - we were unlucky with venues but will try for some further dates in early 2010. In the meantime, this is the full schedule:
JULY
Wed 22 - ORCHARD THEATRE, DARTFORD (01322 220 000 or www.orchardtheatre.co.uk)
Thurs 23 - NEW VICTORIA THEATRE, WOKING (0844 871 7627 or www.ambassadortickets.com/New-Victoria-Theatre)
Sat 25 - SANDS THEATRE CARLISLE (01228 625 222 or www.thesandscentre.co.uk)
SEPTEMBER
Fri 18 - MANCHESTER OPERA HOUSE (0844 847 2295 or www.ticketmaster.co.uk/venue/189249)
Sun 20 - BRISTOL HIPPODROME (0844 847 2325 or www.ticketmaster.co.uk/venue/189858)
Mon 21 - PORTSMOUTH GUILDHALL (023 9282 4355 or www.portsmouthguildhall.co.uk)
Tues 22 - CAMBRIDGE CORN EXCHANGE (01223 357 851 or www.cornex.co.uk)
Wed 23 - ROYAL CONCERT HALL, NOTTINGHAM (0115 989 5555 or www.royalcentre-nottingham.co.uk)
Fri 25 - ST GEORGES CONCERT HALL, BRADFORD (01274 432000 or www.bradford-theatres.co.uk)
Sat 26 - CENTAUR CHELTENHAM (01242 572573 or https://tickets.everymantheatre.org.uk - booking via the Everyman Theatre Box Office)
Sun 27 - NEW WIMBLEDON THEATRE (0844 871 7627 or www.ambassadortickets.com/New-Wimbledon-Theatre)
Mon 28 - BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY HALL (0121 780 3333 or www.thsh.co.uk)
Tues 29 - SOUTHPORT THEATRE (0844 847 2380 or www.ticketmaster.co.uk/venue/189855)
Wed 30 - YORK GRAND OPERA HOUSE (0844 847 2322 or www.ticketmaster.co.uk/venue/189384)
OCTOBER
Sat 3 - DERNGATE, NORTHAMPTON (01604 624811 or www.royalandderngate.co.uk)
Sun 4 - BASINGSTOKE ANVIL (01256 844244 or www.anvilarts.org.uk)
Mon 5 - PRINCESS THEATRE, TORQUAY (0844 847 2315 or www.ticketmaster.co.uk/venue/189861)
Tues 6 - EASTBOURNE CONGRESS THEATRE (01323 412000 or www.eastbournetheatres.co.uk)
Wed 7 - DE MONTFORD HALL LEICESTER (0116 233 3111 or www.demontforthall.co.uk)
Not all the September/October venues may have put their tickets on sale yet, but all should have within a few days. Like previous touring shows, this show will include some of the most popular rounds played on the programme over the years - there should be be some real highlights. And once more, Tim, Barry and Graeme will be joined by Jeremy Hardy. As usual it's advisable to book early as the shows tend to sell out quite quickly. Each show starts at 7.30pm and should be finished by around 10pm.
That's about the size of it. We'd like to thank you all for your continued support, and look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at these shows.
With best wishes
Jon Naismith
Producer, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
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| update about ISIHAC stage tour dates |
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An update about the I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Official Stage Tour, which runs from July 22 - Oct 7, 2009. Full details, including URLs for the theaters, can be found in our FAQ
* Dates currently on sale: Dartford, Woking, Carlisle, Manchester, Bristol, Portsmouth, Cambridge, Nottingham, Bradford, Cheltenham, Birmingham, Southport, York, Torquay
* Wimbledon is currently only on sale to Friends of the Theatre; tickets are to go on sale to the general public soon. Details at http://www.ambassadortickets.com/1354/679/Wimbledon/New-Wimbledon-Theatre/I'm-Sorry-I-Haven't-A-Clue
* The previously announced Oct. 4th date in Bournemouth has dropped off the official ISIHAC website (http://www.isihac.net/tour_dates2.html). It's likely this date has been cancelled.
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Posted by lisa at 01/07/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| the return of ISIHAC and other shows |
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Use the "click here for more" link below to see the latest "upcoming shows" list.
One particularly exciting item is the start of a new series of "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" next Monday on BBC Radio 4. For our UK members - let us know if you spot any articles about the return of the show. Scans of articles not appearing on line would be greatly appreciated. The club has a gmail address to which you can send large attachments to be posted on the site: groksite@gmail.com
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Posted by lisa at 11/06/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| more 2009 ISIHAC tour dates |
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Chortle is listing 19 dates for the 2009 I’m Sorry I Haven't A Clue Stage Tour (note this is not the BBC Radio 4 recordings) at
http://www.chortle.co.uk/shows/tour/i/17368/im_sorry_i_havent_a_clue_2009. Note that most of these dates haven't been officially announced so it is possible there will be changes to this list.
Following is an admittedly crude cut & paste of the dates & venues from that website.
Wednesday 22nd Jul, '09
Venue: Dartford Orchard Theatre
Prices: £25
Show starts: 19:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Thursday 23rd Jul, '09
Venue: Woking New Victoria Theatre
Saturday 25th Jul, '09
Venue: Carlisle Sands Centre
Prices: £22 to £24
Friday 18th Sep, '09
Venue: Manchester Opera House
Sunday 20th Sep, '09
Venue: Bristol Hippodrome
Monday 21st Sep, '09
Venue: Portsmouth Guildhall
Tuesday 22nd Sep, '09
Venue: Cambridge Corn Exchange
Wednesday 23rd Sep, '09
Venue: Nottingham Royal Centre
Friday 25th Sep, '09
Venue: Bradford St George's Hall
Saturday 26th Sep, '09
Venue: Cheltenham The Centaur
Sunday 27th Sep, '09
Venue: New Wimbledon Theatre
Monday 28th Sep, '09
Venue: Birmingham Symphony Hall
Prices: £23.50 and £25.50
Tuesday 29th Sep, '09
Venue: Southport Theatre
Wednesday 30th Sep, '09
Venue: York Grand Opera House
Saturday 3rd Oct, '09
Venue: Northampton Royal & Derngate
Sunday 4th Oct, '09
Venue: Bournemouth Opera House
Monday 5th Oct, '09
Venue: Torquay Princess Theatre
Tuesday 6th Oct, '09
Venue: Eastbourne Congress Theatre
Wednesday 7th Oct, '09
Venue: Leicester De Montfort Hall
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| articles about Victoria Wood which mention the new series of ISIHAC |
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Several articles appeared in UK newspapers today about British comedy writer & performer Victoria Wood. The articles primarily concern Victoria's complaint about British panel shows being too male dominated, but the pieces also mention Victoria's forthcoming appearance in the new series of "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" (which begins on BBC Radio 4 next Monday).
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Here's an excerpt from The Telegraph article (at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/5478241/TV-panel-shows-are-to
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The double BAFTA winning comedienne will appear in the 51st series of the radio programme, I'm Sorry I haven't a Clue, the first show go on air without Humphrey Lyttelton, who died in April last year, aged 86.
In his role as chairman for 35 years, he gave the panel of four comedians "silly things to do" in what was billed as "the antidote to panel games".
Wood, 56, will make her debut appearance on the show with veteran panellists Barry Cryer, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden in a recording chaired by Stephen Fry, who is currently 'hot-desking' the role with Jack Dee and Rob Brydon.
Victoria Wood will appear as a panelist on the first 2 episodes of the new series of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue starting on the 15th June 2009.
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Plus an excerpt from The First Post (at
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/48658,news,victoria-wood-attacks-testosterone-
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lop-merton ):
Wood's comments come as she prepares to make her debut appearance on the 51st series of the BBC Radio show, I'm Sorry I haven't a Clue, billed as "the antidote to panel games". It will be the first time the show has gone on air without its host of 35 years, Humphrey Lyttelton, who died in April last year, aged 86. Wood will be the only woman on the show, appearing alongside veteran panellists Barry Cryer, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden in a recording chaired by Stephen Fry, who is currently sharing the role with comedians Jack Dee and Rob Brydon.
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Posted by lisa at 09/06/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| forthcoming book: "Faces of Humph: Caricatures and Memories" |
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Amazon.co.uk is listing a new book by Humphrey Lyttelton (former chair of Tim & Graeme's radio series "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue") to be published in October. Here is the description of "Faces of Humph: Caricatures and Memories" from
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Faces-Humph-Caricatures-Humphrey-Lyttelton/dp/1906779627
When Humphrey Lyttelton died in June 2008 he left behind him an amazing record of his life in the form of cartoons and drawings. From sketches of family and jazz musicians, and Christmas cards, to illustrations for jazz flyers, there's little Humph didn't record. Humphrey Lyttelton enrolled in arts at Camberwill School of Arts and Crafts in 1947 where he decided that cartooning and caricature were the way forward (as well as jazz, of course).
He had already been drawing sketches from childhood - of housemasters or his wartime service in a coal town in Wales where he drew characters such as 'Toomph'. Through fellow band member, Wally Fawkes, known to the cartoon world as 'Trog', he secured a job as column breaker for the Daily Mail. His career as a cartoonist was relatively short as he went on to create his own band and become one of the greatest jazz musicians in the UK. But all the while, Humph kept doodling and sketching at every opportunity - on the back of envelopes, in margins of books, as well as more formal work, such as sketches of the Clue team and album covers. And in this unique collection we can enjoy these cartoons, drawn in his own inimitable style - witty, clever and unassuming - along with his compelling stories that surround his subjects. Poignant, fascinating and high enjoyable, this little book is a hand-drawn memory of a life. Every Monday night from 1967 until 2008, Humphrey Lyttelton wrote and presented BBC's The Best of Jazz, and he was, famously, Chairman of the anarchic, award-winning radio programme, I'm Sorry, I Haven't A Clue. He wrote nine books, and composed over two hundred tunes, and has Honorary Doctorates at the universities of Warwick, Loughborough, Durham, Keele, Hertford and de Montfort.
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Posted by lisa at 09/06/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Mailout - June 2009 |
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Here's an announcement about Tim & Graeme's show "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" from the show's official mailing list:
Dear I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Mailing List Member,
Just to let you know, the new series of 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue' (Series 51) will start on Radio 4 from Monday 15th June at 6.30pm on Radio 4.
The hosts for the shows are Stephen Fry, Jack Dee and Rob Brydon, and apart from Tim, Barry and Graeme, the panellists will be Victoria Wood (making her debut on the show - she was actually due to guest on the recordings we were forced to cancel after Humph was hospitalised in 2008), Jeremy Hardy and Phill Jupitus. All the recordings went very well and I'm sure it will be a fine series.
Mneawhile, after the success of our Tours in 2007 and 2008 (both complete sell-outs), we are planning another Official Theatre Tour of 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue' in July, September and October this year, to be hosted by the brilliant Jack Dee. The show is a brand new 'Best Of', featuring the most successful rounds in the 38 years of 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue'. It'll be a different show from the one we toured in 2007 and 2008, and with Jack at the helm, it promises to be a lot of fun. The panel will comprise Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Jeremy Hardy with Colin Sell at the piano.
We'll be visiting Manchester, Bristol. Portsmouth, Cambridge, Nottingham, Bradford, Cheltenham, Wimbledon, Birmingham, Southport, York, Northampton, Bournemouth, Torquay, Eastbourne and Leicester, and I'll be sending out full details in a few weeks time.
Meantime I can reveal the three dates we'll be doing in July. These are:
Wednesday 22nd July at the Orchard Theatre in Dartford
Show starts 7.30pm (finishes at around 10pm) Tickets - currently on sale. £25.
Box Office 01322 220000 Website www.orchardtheatre.co.uk
Thursday 23rd July at the New Victoria Theatre in Woking
Show starts 7.30pm (finishes at around 10pm) Tickets - should be on sale in a week. £26, £24 and £22
Box Office 0844 871 7615 Website www.ambassadorticket.com
Saturday 25th July at the Sands Theatre in Carlisle
Show starts 7.30pm (finishes at around 10pm) Tickets - currently on sale. £24 and £22 Box Office 01228 625222
Website www.thesandscentre.co.uk
With best wishes
Jon Naismith
Producer, "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue"
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Posted by lisa at 06/06/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| summary of 2009 ISIHAC stage show dates currently on sale |
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The following summary comes from The Officially Unofficial I’m Sorry I Haven't A Clue Web Pages at http://www.isihac.co.uk/tour.html. Please note these dates are for the stage tour, not BBC Radio 4 recordings.
The following are the first known 2009 tour dates and venues. There has been no official announcement of the 2009 tour dates and venues yet. When there is an announcement the remaining dates and venues will appear here.
Each show normally starts at 7.30pm, and finishes around 10pm. Exceptions will be noted when known.
22nd July
The Orchard Theatre, Home Gardens, Dartford, Kent, DA1 1ED
Tickets: £25
Box office: 01322 220000
venue URL: http://www.orchardtheatre.co.uk/index.asp
event URL:
http://www.orchardtheatre.co.uk/wrt-productions_details.asp?pid=2733
25th July
The Sands Centre, Carlisle, CA1 1JQ
Tickets: £22 and £24
Box office: 01228 625222
Notes: £1.85 postal delivery charge.
venue URL: http://www.thesandscentre.co.uk/
online bookings:
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_northeast&query=detail&event=324819
28th September
Symphony Hall, Broad Street, Birmingham, B1 2EA
Tickets: £23.50 and £25.50
Box office: 0121 780 3333
Notes: £2 transaction fee unless booked in person at the Box Office.
venue URL: http://www.thsh.co.uk/
event URL: http://www.thsh.co.uk/view/im-sorry-i-haven-t-a-clue
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Posted by lisa at 04/06/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| Sunday Times article about new series of "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" |
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The following article about recordings for the new series of "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" (which starts on BBC Radio 4 on June 15th) appears in the May 24, 2009 issue of The Sunday Times at
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article6320434.ece
From The Sunday Times
May 24, 2009
I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue after Humphrey Lyttelton
The ‘antidote to panel games’ returns after the death of its chairman, Humphrey Lyttelton
Neil Smith
My feet are size 12½ — but that’s nowhere big enough to fill the shoes of the imponderably great Humph,” says Stephen Fry. The urbane broadcaster was speaking before the first recording of I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue since the death of its long-time host, Humphrey Lyttelton. A Radio 4 staple since 1972, this self-styled “antidote to panel games” has delighted millions with its inventive wordplay, running gags and rounds, familiar to devotees but inexplicable to anyone else, such as Swanee-Kazoo, One Song to the Tune of Another and Mornington Crescent. It was the crusty, cantankerous “Humph” who held it all together, though, the veteran jazz-man’s patrician demeanour and faux-innocence allowing him to deliver the sauciest innuendos this side of a Donald McGill postcard.
When Lyttelton died in April last year at 86, it looked as if the show might perish with him. “We spent a while debating whether to bring the show back,” says Graeme Garden, a regular panellist who, along with Barry Cryer and his erstwhile fellow-Goodie Tim Brooke-Taylor, has been “given silly things to do” since it started. (The comedian Willie Rushton rounded out the quartet until his death in 1996.)
“A lot of people said, ‘Keep it going,’ which was reassuring. But a year ago was not the right time to make a decision about the future of the show, or anything else.”
The Clue team had been touring the UK when Humphrey was taken ill; in the event, the comedian Rob Brydon filled in while he underwent surgery for an aortic aneurysm in a London hospital. “We all knew it was a dangerous operation,” says Jon Naismith, the show’s producer since 1991. “He had tried to go for a safer option, which did keep him alive for an extra 2½ months. In the end one tube was just too fragile; they tried to replace it, and the whole system collapsed.”
Naismith knew replacing Clue’s figurehead might prove perilous. “But Humphrey’s partner and agent said that he would have wanted us to go on,” he says. “And his son, Stephen, said the same thing.”
“Humph once told us if he went under a bus, he didn’t want any displays of loyalty,” smiles Cryer. “He was being jovial, but we knew what he meant. We left it a while, a decent period of respect. And now we’re just going for it again.”
On the last Sunday of April at Her Majesty’s in London’s Haymarket (normally home to Phantom of the Opera), the only visible sign of the departed chairman is a man in the front row of the audience bearing his face on a T-shirt. When Naismith appears on stage to introduce the recording, though, he says what everybody is thinking: “It’s appropriate to dedicate tonight to Humph,” he declares, to thunderous applause. “Thank you for all the wonderful letters encouraging us to continue, and apologies to the few telling us not to.” When white-haired Cryer strolls on, he pays his own tribute, by telling one of Lyttelton’s favourite jokes: “The one about the blacksmith who was asked if he had ever shooed a horse. He said, ‘No, but I once told a pig to piss off.’ ”
It cannot be easy for the guest chairman Fry to officiate on such a charged occasion. But, he says, “I felt that the astounding goodwill of the audience, the brilliance of the regulars and the excellence of the format made the idea of recording a few games worth trying.” In fact, he fills in with aplomb, with the help of the regulars Colin Sell tinkling the ivories and Samantha, the imaginary scorer. Says Fry: “It was most extraordinary to be sitting in Chairman Humph’s chair, and failing to control Barry, Graeme, Tim and, in a stunning debut, Victoria Wood.”
The laughter comes freely and frequently — something Rob Brydon trusts will be repeated when he hosts a recording in Newcastle in June. (Jack Dee presents the other two editions in this series.) “I know we’re all doing it in the best spirit, with Humph very much in our minds,” says Brydon. “There’s a real family feel to the show. It doesn’t seem like work — which is good as it doesn’t pay particularly well! I’m just proud to be a small part of it.”
Once this series is over, though, could Fry, Dee or Brydon take over on a full-time basis? “Any of them could be a potential long-term replacement,” says Garden. “Equally, we’ve got a list of 20 or 30 other people. Our hope is that in time we’ll settle for a permanent chairperson of suitable standing.” Cryer, though, is happy to take one show at a time. “We would be sad if it finished — but it has been 37 years after all, and we’d have to say, ‘What have we got to complain about?’”
Stephen Fry agrees: "Damn, I had a good time,” he smiles. “If Humph was watching, I hope he wasn't too horrified. But he was probably too busy playing the trumpet with Louis Armstrong."
I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue returns to BBC Radio 4 on Monday June 15
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Posted by lisa at 24/05/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| the latest upcoming TV & radio shows list |
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Here's a list of upcoming TV & radio shows of interest to Goodies fans. "(NEW)" indicates shows added since the last update (some of which may be repeats). It's advisable to check your local listings for details & to watch for schedule changes.
Feel free to let us know about anything that should be added to the list - contributions & corrections are always welcome! (Thanks to everyone who's been helping with the spottings!).
(NEW) * Sun, 17 May - "Percy Edwards Showdown", with Bill in the cast, is repeated on BBC Radio 4 at 13:30. The show can be heard worldwide from www.bbc.co.uk/radio4 and will be available for a week after broadcast from Listen Again.
(NEW) * Mon, 18 May - "Cilla" on BBC 4 at 1:30am is a repeat of the vintage episode featuring an appearance by Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, & Graham Chapman.
(NEW) * Thurs, 28 May - "The Long Hot Satsuma" on BBC Radio 7 at 23:00 is the repeat of the first of two episodes from the radio series which starred Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer, & Alison Steadman, among others. The second episode will air the following Thursday. The show can be heard worldwide via the internet at www.bbc.co.uk/radio7; each episode will be available for a week from the BBC iPlayer (aka Listen Again).
(NEW) * Mondays starting 15 June - The new series of "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" will begin on BBC Radio 4.
* Thursdays & Sundays - SKY NZ's New Comedy Central channel is repeating "The Goodies". (Thanks for raymond for this info!) http://www.comedycentral.co.nz/shows/the-goodies
* various dates & times - The Comedy Channel in Australia occasionally is repeating episodes of "The Goodies". Consult their website (at
http://www.comedychannel.com.au/WhatsOn/Detail.aspx?id=211 ) for details about any episodes coming up in the next 7 days.
(NEW) * date TBA - Sky Arts 1 once again is repeating the second series of "What the Dickens?" starting Weds, 27 May. Watch for Graeme's appearance in an upcoming episode.
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| ISIHAC merchandise update |
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* The current release date for "I’m Sorry I Haven't A Clue - Volume 11", according to http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1405688378, is July 2nd. This will be released as a 2-CD Audiobook and will also be available for digital download.
Here's the description from Amazon: This eleventh collection of the antidote to panel games finds the late Humphrey Lyttelton giving regular panelists Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden silly things to do to - along with special guests Stephen Fry, Jack Dee, Rob Brydon & Jeremy Hardy. Highlights include "One Song to the Tune of Another", "84 Chicken Cross Road", "Sound Charades", Notes & Queries, Uxbridge English Dictionary, Tennis Chat-up Lines, Swanee Kazoo and, of course, the brilliantly baffling, fiendishly funny Mornington Crescent. So get ready to laugh out loud as Humph and the gang indulge in more wonderful wordplay, accompanied by Colin Sell on the piano and the lovely Samantha, who likes to sit on Humph's left hand
* Scheduled for an October 8th release is "The Clue Bible: The Fully Authorised History of "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue", from Footlights to Mornington Crescent" by Jem Roberts. The book cover currently being shown on Amazon (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1848091303/ ) says it has a "Forward by Graeme Garden, Afterward by Tim Brook-Taylor, and Something by Barry Cryer".
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Posted by lisa at 11/05/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| ISIHAC recording with Stephen Fry |
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The first two episodes of the 51st series of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue were recorded in London this evening; the new series begins Monday, June 15th on BBC Radio 4.
The recording went very well; Stephen Fry did an admirable job as the show's first guest Chair. Based on the audience's response, Clue fans won't be disappointed when they hear the new series.
For those of you interested in more details, there's a write-up in our Events Forum in the thread entitled "ISIHAC London".
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Posted by lisa at 26/04/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| Cilla repeat with Tim & Graeme plus other spotteds |
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* Graeme's appearance in "What the Dickens?" is being repeated on Sky Arts 1 on Weds, 22nd April at 00:15 and 13:15
* On Saturday, 25 April on BBC4 at 22:30 is "Cilla" with Tim & Graeme. Here's a listing - an "Edition of Cilla Black's 1960s TV series. Cilla sings Step Inside Love and Pass Me By, and performs duets with Georgie Fame on For Once in My Life and Dusty Springfield on If You're Ever (Friendship). Dusty and Georgie also take the mic for solo numbers. Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman and Graeme Garden do a Top of the Form take-off and a ritual Japanese wrestling act, while comedian Tom Ward does a drunk act."
Edited to add:: Thanks to Andrew Pixley for posting the following in our forums: "In addition to "Cilla" on BBC4's "Queens of British Pop" supporting bill, the edition of "Lulu's Back in Town" at 11.45pm that night may also be of interest due to the inclusion of Bill's material (including one of his best songs)."
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| Hamish & Dougal repeats on BBC Radio 7 |
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I've just noticed that "Hamish & Dougal: You'll Have Had Your Tea" series 1 has returned to BBC Radio 7's Thursday schedule starting today. This "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" spin-off stars Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer, Jeremy Hardy, & Alison Steadman. Series 1 Episode 1 ("The Musical Evening") airs at 22:45 (London Time) tonight; it can be heard online from
www.bbc.co.uk/radio7 and will be available from Listen Again afterwards for a week after broadcast.
Marcus Brigstocke fans might like to know that his series "Think the Unthinkable" follows "Hamish& Dougal" at 23:00 (starting with series 1, episode 1 this evening).
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Posted by lisa at 12/03/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| articles from The Guardian and The Times about ISIHAC's return with guest hosts |
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Two more articles about the Clue guest hosts.
From The Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/tvandradioblog/2009/feb/25/lyttelton-sorry-havent-clue):
It'll take three men to replace one Humphrey Lyttelton
No one person could take over from Lyttelton. Perhaps that's why Radio 4 are replacing him with three British comedy giants
Jazz musician and radio broadcaster Humphrey Lyttelton, who died on April 25 2008 aged 86. Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images
You have to expect some plangent enthusiasm when a person's just died, but Iain Pattinson, the writer on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue sounded measured, not hyperbolic, when he said Humphrey Lyttelton made things about 10 times funnier than they were when he wrote them. "Which is the opposite of what usually happens," Pattinson continued, in case anyone thought he was doing that naff, self-deprecation thing they do at the Oscars.
I think, beyond the eulogy, there's a point here, which is that Lyttelton brought something particular to the way I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue worked.
It wasn't just any old comedy show; you couldn't fish those jokes out and use them for The News Quiz, or as a funny monologue-filler on Broadcasting House. The "isn't this a rubbish show, and aren't we all rubbish at it?" jokes needed it to be incredibly good, which they were. The double entendres in particular needed Lyttelton's delivery. The jokes were incredibly puerile, so they needed a presenter who would commit to them totally – any hint of "why am I even saying this? It's so childish!" would have sunk them. And yet at the same time, anyone at all self-satisfied (imagine Angus Deayton) committing totally to this childishness would have just sounded very annoying. The presenter had to be a total performer, but with a humility quite at odds with performing; it's a once-in-a-generation combination. I just cannot imagine anybody else doing it.
But now I'm talking myself out of finding a replacement for Humph, and I desperately would like him replaced, because I miss the show. It was more than one voice, and none of the others are dead. There is not one aspect of it I'd like to see binned; not even the swanee whistle is stale ... well, maybe that's a bit stale, but freshness was never really the point.
Humph is to be replaced by three men. It was announced today by the BBC that the rotating chairmanship is to be split between Stephen Fry, Rob Brydon and Jack Dee. Fry has been doing panel-duty on and off for 21 years, even before Willy Rushton died (I guess he did holiday cover), and I have to say, it never once did not amaze me, the disgusting stuff he came out with. I feel that he could bring something, not Humph-like, but definitely new, to the double entendre. Rob Brydon did a rendition of Danny Boy on the show once, so powerful and moving that he can do whatever he likes, really. When Jack Dee first appeared, on a special, he said he wouldn't do it again because his voice spoilt it. So I guess he will be making a feature of that: the opposite of Humphrey Lyttelton, the person whose voice makes everything much less funny.
Oh, it'll be fine. Only an idiot would worry about a situation in which three huge beasts of British comedy rotate in one tiny chair. They can't mess it up - maybe sometimes - but not all the time.
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From The Times (http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article5802568.ece):
From Times OnlineFebruary 25, 2009
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue back with Stephen Fry, Rob Brydon and Jack Dee hosting
Veronica Schmidt
The hugely popular Radio 4 panel show I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue is to return to Radio Four this summer with Stephen Fry, Jack Dee and Rob Brydon sharing hosting duties.
The new series, which will begin recording in April, will be the first since the show's iconic chairman Humphrey Lyttelton died last spring.
The news will be a surprise to many who assumed the programme was finished. The final series was cancelled last April after Lyttelton underwent surgery on an aortic aneurysm. He died that month, aged 86.
Famed for his endless supply of innuendo, Lyttelton, also a jazz musician and cartoonist, was the show’s host from its inception in 1972. It regularly attracted 2 million listeners.
A year before Lyttelton's death, regular panellist Tim Brooke-Taylor was asked to contemplate the future of the show without its presenter. He said: “Humph is the most important component. Willie Rushton and I talked about it once and we agreed that if Humph isn’t there it’s not worth doing.”
Gavin and Stacey star Brydon, stand-up comic Dee and the medium-straddling Stephen Fry all appeared on the show during Lyttelton’s 36-year reign in the chair.
Today, Brydon said he would not try to fill Lyttelton's shoes "because that couldn't be done - he was a complete one-off".
Radio 4 will begin broadcasting the series in June.
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| news stories about ISIHAC guest hosts |
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Here are a few of the stories in the media today about the guest hosts for the upcoming series of "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue". Broadcasts of the next series begin on BBC Radio 4 on Monday, June 15.
BBC Radio 4 Blog: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radio4/2009/02/im_sorry_i_havent_a_clue.html
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
Mark Damazer
24 Feb 09, 06:01 PM
It was nice to think that Humphrey Lyttelton would live forever.
When - alas - he died last April I was confronted with the sort of dilemma that R4 faced when John Peel (Home Truths) and Ned Sherrin (Loose Ends) died. Should we take the programme out of the schedules forever in the belief that that presenter was so intimately bound up with the programme that it would be impossible for anyone else to present it - or should we continue in a different way?
It took me a while to work out how to proceed on Saturday mornings and there was a chance that Home Truths would work out post Peel. In many ways it did - but, after nine months, not quite enough to convince me to keep it.
Some immediately thought that we should end 'Clue' - that Humphrey's dry and self-deprecating wit was so central to the alchemy that it would not work without him. I waited before saying anything - not least because the programme team was much affected by the great man's death. But in the event the programme and the station received a fair amount of correspondence suggesting they could not do without 'Mornington Crescent', 'One Song to the Tune of Another' and other assorted brilliant tomfoolery. And the programme team decided they would like to come back - after a period of time
So - unlike 'Home Truths' I thought we should go ahead. I said a while ago (on Feedback) that 'Clue' would return but did not specify when and how. These judgements are tricky.
For Clue we wrote down the names of three people we thought we would like to chair the show - and we knew we would not immediately ask one person to do all of the first run. That would be a big burden - post Humphrey. The three names we wrote down all said yes. And here they are - Messrs Stephen Fry, Jack Dee and Rob Brydon. It's wonderful they all agreed. Of course it won't be the same as before - but these are three men of huge talent and I am confident that the show will work. So fingers crossed, and I look forward to the shows.
A reminder of the dates of the recordings and the venues, with two programmes being recorded each night:
Sunday 26th April at Her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket, London, with guest host Stephen Fry.
Tickets will be available from 1000 on Tuesday 3rd March
Sunday 17th May at the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton, with guest host Jack Dee.
Tickets will be available from 0930 on Monday 2nd March.
Thursday 4th June at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle, with guest host Rob Brydon.
Tickets will be available from 0900 on Monday 9th March
Please contact the theatres for tickets.
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Today Show interview with Rob Brydon and Barry Cryer: http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7909000/7909546.stm
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BBC News: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7909533.stm
Fry, Dee and Brydon take on Clue
Stephen Fry, Jack Dee and Rob Brydon are to share hosting duties for a new series of BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue this summer.
The series, which begins recording in April, will be aired in June and will be the show's first appearance since host Humphrey Lyttelton died in 2008.
Comedian Brydon said he was "hugely proud" to be asked to present.
Lyttelton, famed for his innuendo, died in April, aged 86. He was chairman of the series since its 1972 inception.
He died following complications from surgery to repair an aortic aneurysm.
Just before the operation, the BBC had announced it was cancelling recording of the latest series of the show.
Gavin and Stacey star Brydon, who like all the new presenters has appeared as a guest panellist on the show, said it was "not really a question of filling Humph's shoes because that couldn't be done - he was a complete one-off".
"I'm a real latecomer to it, I only came to it about three years ago but I'm so proud to be a small part of it and this is really just about continuing that lovely atmosphere.
"People don't do it for the money, they do it for the enjoyment of it and it's a unique radio show and one that I think we're all hugely proud of."
He added: "It's a unique atmosphere on that show of such warmth that I've never really found on any other show and I think it's important for people to realise that it's a group of friends playing games together."
'E-mail torrent'
Regular panellist Barry Cryer, who has also appeared on the show since the beginning, said Lyttelton's were "big shoes to fill".
"It was a strange sort of watershed when dear Humph went, there was a relatively small movement that you must never do this show again," he said.
"And then a torrent of e-mails and stuff came in saying you must go on, you must go on.
"It's no disrespect to Humph at all.
"It's just people want the show to carry on and we'll be pleased to do it, even without the great man."
Announcing the changes on the station's blog, Radio 4 controller Mark Damazer said the new presenters were "men of huge talent and I am confident that the show will work".
Veteran trumpeter Lyttelton retired from hosting Radio 2's The Best of Jazz programme a month before his death after more than 40 years presenting the show.
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The Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1155362/Stephen-Fry-Jack-Dee-Rob-Brydon-job-share-presenters-radios-Im-Sorry-I-Havent-A-Clue.html
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The Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/4805733/Im-Sorry-I-Havent-A-Clue-returns-to-Radio-4.html use the "click here for more" link below to see the text of this article
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Posted by lisa at 24/02/2009 21:00 GMT |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Mailout - Spring 2009 |
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The following is a mailing from the official I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue mailing list.
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Dear ISIHAC Mailing List Member,
I bring news of the long-awaited return of 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue', back for its 51st series following the death of our beloved chairman Humphrey Lyttelton last year.
We will probably need to start looking for a permanent replacement for Humph at some stage in the future, but for this series at least, and probably for the next, we will simply be asking past panellists from the wider 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue' family to deputise in the role.
ISIHAC stalwarts Stephen Fry, Jack Dee and Rob Brydon have all agreed to host the shows in this series.
These are the three recordings dates:
1. Sunday 26th April at Her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket, London, with guest host Stephen Fry.
TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM 10am ON TUESDAY 3rd MARCH
We will be recording two editions of the programme at Her Majesty's Theatre with guest host Stephen Fry. Tickets cost £10.50, £8.50 and £6.50 and can be purchased by phone by calling See Tickets on 0844 412 4657. The lines are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Alternatively tickets can be booked online via the theatre's website at http://www.seetickets.com
2. Sunday 17th May at the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton, with guest host Jack Dee.
TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM 9.30am ON MONDAY 2nd MARCH
We will be recording two editions of the programme at the Mayflower with guest host Jack Dee. Tickets cost £8, £6.50 and £5 and can be purchased by phone by calling the Mayflower's Box Office on 02380 711811. The lines are open from Monday to Saturday 9.30am (10am Fridays) to 8.30pm. The phone lines close at 5.30pm on Saturdays when there is no performance. Alternatively tickets can be booked online via the theatre's website at http://www.mayflower.org.uk/bookinghow.asp
3. Thursday 4th June at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle, with guest host Rob Brydon.
TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM 9am ON MONDAY 9th MARCH
We will be recording two editions of the programme in Newcastle Mayflower with guest host Rob Brydon. Tickets cost £8 and £6 and can be purchased by phone by calling the Theatre Royal's Box Office on 08448 11 21 21. The lines are open from Monday to Saturday, 9am - 8pm (Wednesday 10am - 8pm). On Sundays and Bank Holidays they are open from 2 hours before a performance. Alternatively tickets can be booked online via the theatre's website at http://www.theatreroyal.co.uk/whats_on/show_details.asp?Course_ID=102030
All three recordings start at 7.30pm and are likely to finish around 10.30pm latest. We don't recommend the recordings for children under the age of 14. Tickets are limited to no more than four per applicant, and you are advised to book early as they sell very fast.
Beware of purchasing tickets for the show from a non authorised source - should any show be cancelled, if you have not purchased the ticket direct from the box office, you would not be eligible for a refund.
Each theatre will keep the details of the first 30 callers to miss out on tickets, so those with tickets who suddenly find they can't attend will be able to re-sell them at the theatre's box office to a deserving member of the mailing list.
With best wishes
Jon Naismith
Producer, 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue'
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Posted by lisa at 19/02/2009 23:00 GMT |
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| some spottings (upcoming tv shows) |
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Some spottings, courtesy of wackywales:
- Sat 14th Feb,Graeme's episode of What the Dickens is repeated on at 4.30pm on Sky Arts.
- 15th Feb at 1.25am on BBC4 is another repeat of Timeshift: The Comic Songbook
- Thurs 19th Feb, Stately Stoats is on at 9.50pm on BBC2. "Bill Oddie monitors the exploits of a family of stoats being raised in the grounds of Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire. The grand surroundings provide shelter and a playground for the kits - as well as plenty of rats and rabbits to prey on"
- Fri 20th Feb, Saturday Kitchen on UKTV Food at 6.30am, 10.30am, 3.30pm and 8.30 pm is a repeat of Bill's episode - "James Martin is joined by Sarah Raven and Nick Nairn, while Bill Oddie faces his food heaven and hell"
- UKTV Style Gardens are repeating the series Bill Oddie Goes Wild on Thurs 19th Feb 7-8pm, Sat 21st Feb 10-11am, and Friday 20th Feb 7-8pm.
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Posted by lisa at 12/02/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| tickets now available for the next series of The Unbelievable Truth |
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Thanks to Jenny_Gibbon for the following info:
Tickets are available for the recordings of the next series of The Unbelievable Truth. Bookings can be made on the BBC Tickets website:
http://shows.external.bbc.co.uk/help/shows/the_unbelievable_truth
Here are some details from that page:
The Unbelievable Truth
David Mitchell hosts this brand new panel game in which panellists are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another to see how many items of truth they are able to smuggle past their opponents.
Panellists include Graeme Garden, Jack Dee, Sean Lock, Arthur Smith, Fred MacAulay, Jeremy Hardy, Will Self, Clive Anderson and Tony Hawks.
26 February
The Shaw Theatre
7pm
This is a single recording. Minimum age is 14
Maximum tickets per request: 4
04 March
The Shaw Theatre
6.30pm
This is a double recording. Minimum age is 14
Maximum tickets per request: 4
22 March
The Shaw Theatre
7pm
This is a single recording. Minimum age is 14
Maximum tickets per request: 4
26 March
The Shaw Theatre
6.30pm
This is a double recording. Minimum age is 14
Maximum tickets per request: 4
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Posted by lisa at 09/02/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| "The South Bank Show: Beyond the Footlights" (+ other upcoming tv & radio shows) |
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Sun, 1 Feb - "The South Bank Show: Beyond the Footlights" on ITV1 Sun, 1 Feb from 22:15-23:15 is about the Cambridge Footlights. Here's a listing: "A look at the history and influence of the Cambridge Footlights - a breeding ground for comedy writers and performers, many of whom are now household names. The programme follows the company from the 1960s, when it really began to flower, to the present Footlights Review at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival. Featuring clips and contributions from a who's who of comedy, from Peter Cook to David Mitchell. Footlights' influence is immeasurable, providing a launching pad for the Goodies, several of the Monty Python team, Stephen Fry, Armstrong and Miller, and a host of others."
Use the "click here for more" link below for info on other upcoming shows that may be of interest to Goodies fans.
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Posted by lisa at 29/01/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| Evening Standard article with Graeme anecdote |
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The following article appeared in The Evening Standard yesterday (January 14, 2009):
Messing about on the river ; The Londoner's Diary
VETERAN comedians Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden performed a double act at yesterday's Oldie literary lunch at Simpson's-in-the- Strand, promoting their book, The Doings of Hamish and Dougal, You'll Have Had Your Tea.
Garden recalled that, while fishing on the Spey, he noticed that ghillies displayed a wonderful mixture of contempt and respect. "Don't bugger about with your reel, SIR," he was once told while landing a fish. Garden said that, after a bad day, his ghilly suggested they should try Rifkind's pool. "Would that be the Secretary of State for Scotland, later Foreign Secretary?" said Garden.
"Does he catch a lot of fish?" "No," said the ghilly, "only the one"
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Posted by lisa at 14/01/2009 23:00 GMT |
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| upcoming tv & radio shows |
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* Fri, 16 Jan - "Time Shift - The Comic Song Book" and "Comedy Songs - the Pop Years" are being repeated on BBC 4 at 21.00 and 22.30, respectively. Thanks to Jenny_Gibbon for this info.
* Sat, 17 Jan - "Outtake TV" on BBC 1 at 21:20, whose listing reads, "Anne Robinson presides over a brand new collection of hilarious outtakes. Featuring clips starring Dawn French, Bill Oddie and Alan Titchmarsh."
Use the "click here for more" link below for info about other upcoming shows of interest to Goodies fans.
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Posted by lisa at 14/01/2009 20:00 GMT |
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| ISIHAC tops BBC Radio 7 Listen Again over the holidays |
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According to the January 9th edition of BBC Radio 7's newsletter, repeats of Tim & Graeme's radio show "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" topped the list of shows people were listening to using the BBC iPlayer/Listen Again (audio on demand service) over the holidays.
Here's an excerpt from the newsletter:
The BBC iPlayer has radically changed listening habits, so I was also interested to find out what some of you were "listening to again" on the iPlayer over the Christmas period.
"Top Ten entries" included:
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (peaking at No.1)
His Dark Materials (peaking at No.2)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (peaking at No.5)
Adolf Hitler - My Part in his Downfall (peaking at No. 6)
The Doctor Who Commentaries (also peaking at No. 6)
Doctor Who - The Chimes of Midnight (peaking at No. 7)
Hancock's Half Hour (peaking at No. 
Hercule Poirot's Christmas (peaking at No.10)
And also at No. 10 in the chart, I was pleasantly surprised to see the Old Curiosity Shop Omnibus.
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Posted by lisa at 09/01/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| Barry Cryer interview from Michael Ball's Sunday Brunch (Jan 4th) |
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Thanks to Sosia for posting the following info in the club forums:
"Barry Cryer was on Michael Ball's Sunday Brunch (hosted by Clive Anderson this week!) this [Sunday, 4 January]. He was talking a lot about Clue, especially the DVD, and his career. He was asked about the return of Clue and said that they would be having rolling hosts unless someone shows 'signs of setting in', then they might be asked to stay. He also said they would have be totally different from Humph.
The show is available for a week via iPlayer here (I hope this link works for everyone) The interview starts at at 1 hour 20 minutes in, with the info on the new Clue at around 1 hour 43."
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Posted by lisa at 07/01/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| a variety of spottings |
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* "The Unbelievable Truth Christmas Special" is available from Listen Again via the BBC iplayer at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00fz863 until mid-day next Monday (London time).
* Thanks to Sosia for spotting that Graeme's cameo in "Agatha Christie's Miss Marple" has finally been scheduled for a UK airing on ITV1 on New Year's Day (1st Jan) at 9pm.
* Thanks to Jennny_Gibbon for spotting that on Sunday, 21 December BBC Radio
7 will be airing Christmas editions of "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again" and "Hello Cheeky"
* For the Humphrey Lyttelton Fans, "Omnibus: The Wonderful World Of Louis Armstrong" (Friday 19th December on BBC 4 02:55 to 04:00) includes a tribute from Humph.
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Posted by lisa at 16/12/2008 00:00 GMT |
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| Graeme to appear in 2nd event at the Slapstick 2009 Festival |
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Graeme will be appearing at a second event during the Slapstick 2009 festival in Bristol. In addition to The Goodies (Tim & Graeme) in Conversation with Phill Jupitus session on January 22nd, Graeme is also due to participate in "An Audience with Eric Sykes".
Here are details about both events, from http://www.slapstick.org.uk/old-vic.htm
* The Goodies
Thu 22 Jan 2000hrs Bristol Old Vic
Slapstick ‘09 welcomes two of Britain’s much loved comic performers as a modern day homage to the great silent comedians of the past. For over a decade, The Goodies TV show delighted millions of viewers with their inventive and often hilarious slapstick comedy and its writers/performers became household names and major pop stars. We are delighted to welcome both Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden to discuss their unique show with
comedian and Goodies fan Phill Jupitus.
Tickets: ranging from £20.00 to £10.00 full / half price concessions available To book, contact Bristol Old Vic’s Box Office on 0117 987 7877 or visit bristololdvic.org.uk
* An Audience with Eric Sykes
Sun 25 Jan 1600hrs Bristol Old Vic
Comedy icon, writer and actor Eric Sykes comes to Bristol’s Slapstick Festival as our special guest to discuss his extraordinary career in television and film and his association with British comedy legends including Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Frankie Howerd. In conversation with Graeme Garden and using extracts from three decades of the silent comedy shorts he produced for cinema and television including his masterpiece The Plank (1967), this promises to be an unmissable event and a rare chance to hear a comedy master talking about his craft.
Tickets: ranging from £20.00 to £10.00 full / half price concessions available.
To book, contact Bristol Old Vic’s Box Office on 0117 987 7877 or visit bristololdvic.org.uk
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Posted by lisa at 09/12/2008 00:00 GMT |
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| news from Graeme - ISIHAC DVD may be released in Australia |
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I received the following news from Graeme this morning (thanks, Graeme!):
Good news for Oz fans - 2|entertain are hoping to release the Clue DVD in Australia in March 2009.
We recorded a Christmas edition of the Unbelievable Truth last night - due for broadcast on Dec 15th. On the panel were me, Jack Dee, Armando Ianucci and Sean Lock. I think it will be a very funny half hour - we recorded nearly 120 minutes!"
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Posted by lisa at 04/12/2008 00:00 GMT |
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| The Unbelievable Truth Christmas Special |
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Thanks to Sosia for posting the following in the club's forums:
The Radio Times for a fortnight's time (I'm confused by how many editions have fallen through my letterbox this week!) is listing the Christmas Unbelievable Truth as being broadcast on Monday 15th December at 6.30pm on Radio 4. I presume it will be in IPlayer for the following week.
Details are
The Unbelievable Truth Christmas Special
Monday 15 December
6:30pm - 7:00pm
BBC Radio 4
David Mitchell hosts a special Christmas edition of the game show in which panellists are encouraged to tell lies and compete to see how many items of truth they are able to smuggle past their opponents. The panel are Graeme Garden, Jack Dee, Armando Iannucci and Sean Lock.
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Posted by lisa at 03/12/2008 00:00 GMT |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Mailout 17.11.08 |
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The following info is from the official I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue mailing list.
Dear I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Mailing List Member
This is the last mailout of 2008.
Firstly we'd like to tell you that 2 entertain (co-owned by BBC Worldwide) have recently published the long-awaited DVD of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. It was filmed at the Lowry Centre on Sunday 6th April, just ten days before Humph went into hospital. It has been listed at No 1 in the The Independent's selection of 'The Ten Best Comedy DVDs' and Time Out say of it that the team "really are as funny as the sound on the radio; there's no snappy editing here, this is just 100 minute of improvised brilliance". The DVD distributor has arranged a discount of £3.75 to members of this mailing list if you purchase the DVD from the BBC Shop online. Here's how you do it:
1. Log onto the ISIHAC DVD link at the BBC Shop by clicking here:
http://www.bbcshop.com/Game-Shows/Im-Sorry-I-Havent-A-Clue-Live-DVD/invt/bbcdvd2869
2. Keep clicking 'Checkout' until you get the the page saying 'Please sign in' when you add your email address, and if you're not a returning customer, click 'Checkout as guest', or set up an account. It'll then ask you to add some details, address, phone number etc.
3. When you get to the page, 'Order Summary', click on the option 'Redeem a Promotion Code' under the red banner heading saying 'Additional Services'. In the box provided type in the code: ISIHAC08 and click 'Continue'
The £3.75 off your order is as follows: £1.30 is 10% off the DVD which they are currently selling at £12.99 and remaining £2.45 is the price of the postage. The offer expires 31st December - a user can use the code only once - this code is exclusive to the ISIHAC DVD.
Secondly, Random House Books would like you to know that they are offering 'Lyttelton's Britain' (Humphrey's collected opening histories to all the towns and cities we visited during his chairmanship of the show) and Barry and Graeme's new Hamish & Dougal Book as a "2 for 1" offer. It works out a couple of pounds cheaper than Amazon and there are no product codes required. Both are hardbacks. Here's the link:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/clue2for1
Thirdly, free tickets have just become available for a one-off Christmas Special of 'The Unbelievable Truth', the Radio 4 panel game devised by Graeme Garden and myself, which we're recording on Wednesday 3rd December 2008 at the Shaw Theatre in Euston Road (doors open, recording starts 7.30pm). It's hosted by the excellent David Mitchell, and the panel includes Graeme Garden and Jack Dee. You'll need to order swiftly as there's only 400 available and they'll go quickly. Here's a link:
http://shows.external.bbc.co.uk/help/shows/the_unbelievable_truth
Fourthly, there are two other excellent ISIHAC-related books that would make good Xmas presents. The first is 'The New Uxbridge English Dictionary':
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-New-Uxbridge-English-Dictionary/dp/0007263937
And the other is: 'Last Chorus: An Autobiographical Medley', a collection of Humph's writings by his son Stephen, which includes many Humph cartoons, photos and some fascinating previously unpublished diaries:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Last-Chorus-Autobiographical-Humphrey-Lyttelton/dp/1906217181
Fifthly, in response to a request by many of you for the date when BBC4 will be repeating the Humphrey Lyttelton Tribute documentary - the latest from BBC4 is that this will now happen on Tuesday 16th December at 8pm.
And finally, Jeremy Hardy has asked me to let you know that he is on tour and hopes you might be able to catch his show at a theatre near you. Here are the dates:
http://www.offthekerb.co.uk/listings/index.php?artist=jeremy_hardy
And that's about the size of it once more. Here's wishing you a very Merry Christmas. We look forward to seeing you once again in 2009.
With best wishes
Jon Naismith
Producer, "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue"
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Posted by lisa at 17/11/2008 00:00 GMT |
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| Tim's Doctor Who & Clue Christmas on BBC 7 / new series of "One" |
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Thanks to wackywales for posting the following items in the www.goodiesruleok.com forums.
1. "I'm Sorry I haven't A Christmas Carol" was repeated on BBC7 this past Saturday (Nov. 15th) as part of Comedy Winners. It can be heard from Listen Again through next weekend from http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007s0q0
Here's the listing: "Mark Radcliffe introduces a further prize selection of comedy from the likes of Linda Smith, Stephen Fry, Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt. I'm Sorry I Haven't a Christmas Carol (25/12/2003), The Nick Revell Show (01/02/1992), The LL files (08/06/2000), The Now Show (09/05/2003), The Boosh (16/12/2002)"
2. Tim's Doctor Who episode - The Zygon who fell to Earth - will be on BBC Radio 7 this Sunday (Nov. 23rd) at 6pm and available the following week from Listen Again at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00fn4b2
2. This is from a longer article about David Quantick, a man who apparently has very good taste - "A third series of One, a show that began as a bright idea in the shower one day, is coming too. (Expect more starring roles for Graeme Garden, of whom he is in awe)."
The full article can be found here - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/11/15/nosplit/bvtvgillian15.xml
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Posted by lisa at 16/11/2008 23:00 GMT |
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| Slapstick 2009 Festival with Tim & Graeme |
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Here's some early information about the Slapstick 2009 Festival from
www.slapstick.org.uk. Tim & Graeme are schedule to appear at the festival again this year.
Slapstick returns for its fifth year to bring laughter to Bristol just when we need it most. At this year's festival we present some of the world's funniest silent comedies, brought to life by an unprecedented line-up of special guests. Paul Merton is back once again as the inimitable host of Slapstick's Friday night gala at Colston Hall, presenting Buster Keaton's Our Hospitality accompanied live by the finest silent film ensemble in Europe, The Prima Vista Social Club. This year, Bristol Old Vic is delighted to play host to some of the festival's major highlights and to welcome an array of very special guests including beloved national treasure Eric Sykes and The Goodies in conversation with Phill Jupitus.
The Slapstick festival evolved from our ongoing Bristol Silents programme at Watershed and our close working relationship with Paul Merton. Our shared passion for silent films and especially silent comedy led to the first Slapstick weekend in 2005. The festival was such a success it's been an annual event ever since and it even lead to the commisioning of a BBC TV series Paul Merton's Silent Clowns screened in 2006 and 2007.
I hope you will join us at Slapstick in January and discover the wonderful world of silent comedy.
The blog at
http://bioscopic.wordpress.com/2008/11/13/slapstick-is-here-again/ quotes a blurb from the festival as saying:
We are expecting unprecedented demand for these tickets and expect them to sell out quickly. A limited amount of priority tickets have been put aside for Bristol Silents Members and those people who purchase festival passes until 17th November and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. All Bristol Silents members and delegates will be able to purchase tickets at discounted rates.
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Posted by lisa at 13/11/2008 00:00 GMT |
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| ISIHAC repeats return to BBC Radio 7 (plus other upcoming shows) |
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Here's a list of upcoming tv & radio shows of interest to Goodies fans. "(NEW)" indicates shows added since the last update (some of which may be repeats). It's advisable to check your local listings for schedule changes.
Feel free to let us know about anything that should be added to the list - contributions & corrections are always welcome! (Thanks to everyone who's been helping with the spottings!)
* Mon-Thurs through Nov 6 - "Autumnwatch" with Bill Oddie returns for a new series of live shows on BBC 2 at 20:00.
(NEW) * Sun, 2 Nov - "Chairman Humph - A Tribute" will be repeated on BBC Radio 7 at noon (then again later in the day at 5pm and 5am). It can be heard online from www.bbc.co.uk/radio7; repeats will be available for a week after broadcast. Here's a description from BBC Radio 7's newsletter, "For over 30 years Humphrey Lyttelton entertained Radio 4 listeners as chairman of the enduringly popular "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue". In an affectionate tribute broadcast shortly after Humph's death, Stephen Fry presents this homage in conversation with close friends and admirers. The programme includes highlights from 'Clue'."
(NEW) * Thursdays starting 6 Nov - "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" repeats return to BBC Radio 7. The first repeat is from January 1989 with Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer and Willie Rushton. The show will be available online from www.bbc.co.uk/radio7; repeats will be available for a week after broadcast.
(NEW) * Fri, 7 Nov - "Green Balloon Club" on CBeebies at 16:00 is scheduled to include an appearance by Bill. The episode will be repeated Sun, 9 Nov at 09:00. Here's a listing: "Lily-Rose and friends travel Great Britain in a green hot air balloon hearing stories from children. As part of the Autumnwatch season Green Balloon Club team are having a good look at Autumn - how the leaves change colour and whether it is possible to preserve their lovely shades. Jelly pays a visit to Bill Oddie and finds out what's happening in his bird boxes at this time of year. Starring: Isabella Blake-Thomas, Adam Wells".
(NEW) * Sat, 8 Nov - the first series of "What the Dickens?" (in which Tim is one of the team captains) is being repeated on Sky Arts from 4:00-7:00pm (thanks to wackywales for spotting this). The second series of the show then begins on Weds, 12 November. While Tim is not returning as a team captain, Graeme will appear as a panelist in one episode.
Use the "click here fore more" link below to see the rest of the list.
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Posted by lisa at 01/11/2008 00:00 GMT |
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| Beyond the Vortex / Feedback / repeat of Humph tribute |
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Thanks to wackywales and bushbaby for pointers to these two shows (which are available from Listen Again) in the www.goodiesruleok.com forums
1. wackywales said, "People might be interested to listen to the first ten minutes of last Friday's Feedback (a radio 4 program that talks about that weeks radio and any controversial shows) as it's talking about I've Never Seen Star Wars. Bill Dare (the producer) is defending the program and there's quite a bit of discussion about Tim buying pornography and Bill talks a bit about how this came about. It should be available on listen again until Friday." The show can be heard from the Listen Again link at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/feedback.shtml
2. The Doctor Who adventure "Max Warp" with Graeme aired on BBC Radio 7 yesterday (Listen again available from http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00f676q). bushbuby pointed us to the show "Beyond the Vortex", a behind the scenes look at "Max Warp" by director Barnaby Edwards, saying there's a big chunk about Graeme in the show (and that Barnaby is a Goodies fan!). "Beyond the Vortex is available from Listen Again from http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00f68gg
3. Coming up on BBC Radio 7 (www.bbc.co.uk/radio7) this coming Sunday, Nov. 2nd at noon, a repeat of "Chairman Humph, A Tribute". This tribute, narrated by Stephen Fry and including contributions from Tim & Graeme (among others), aired earlier in the year on BBC Radio 4. The show is scheduled for at noon (with repeats later in the day)
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Posted by lisa at 27/10/2008 00:00 GMT |
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| "Humph in Wonderland" CD |
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Yet another "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" item to add to your holiday shopping list - The "Humph in Wonderland" special, which was originally broadcast on Christmas 2007, is scheduled to be released on CD on November 13th. Note that the CD will include an extra 20 minutes of bonus material not heard in the broadcast.
Here's the blurb from Amazon (at http://www.amazon.co.uk/Im-Sorry-Havent-Clue-Wonderland/dp/1408426005/):
"The "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" team present their unique take on "Alice in Wonderland" in this BBC Radio 4 special. "Humph in Wonderland" stars chairman Humphrey Lyttelton in the title role, with Tony Hawks as the Narrator, Sandi Toksvig as the Queen of Hearts, Tim Brooke-Taylor as the Duchess, Graeme Garden as the Cook and Barry Cryer as Humpty Dumpty, Andy Hamilton also features as the Caterpillar, with Rob Brydon as the Mad Hatter, Jeremy Hardy as the March Hare, Jack Dee as the Cheshire Cat and Colin Sell as the White Rabbit. Among the fun and games are: Mornington Crescent, Swanee Kazoo, Cheddar Gorge, new definitions for the "Uxbridge English Dictionary", as well as Recipes for Nigella Lawson's "Saucy Mouthfuls" (she makes a great sticky tart). Including 20 minutes of bonus material not heard on transmission, this thoroughly daft take on Lewis Carroll is also a fitting tribute to the late, and much-missed, Humphrey Lyttelton."
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Posted by lisa at 17/10/2008 00:00 GMT |
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| news from the official I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue mailing list |
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The following message was sent to the official I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue mailing list by the show's producer, Jon Naismith.
I believe the offer from Preface books may only be open to people with addresses in the UK and the Republic of Ireland.
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Dear I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Mailing List Member,
I bring further programme-related news. The next series of the show will transmit on Monday 15th June 2009 on Radio 4 at the usual time of 6.30pm. I won't know the precise recording dates until well into the New Year, and will of course let you know the details as soon as they are confirmed.
Meantime, there are various ISIHAC-related items that you may want to rush out and purchase:
1. Lyttleton's Britain. This book is the complete collection of Humph's introductions to all the places we visited over the past seventeen years or so, written by Iain Pattinson and collected in gazetteer form. It contains a fair amount of previously unbroadcast material. It was published on 9th October and is already number 35 in the non fiction book chart. Click on this link to read all the blurb and see some sample pages from the book: http://www.prefacepublishing.co.uk/books.asp#lytteltonsamples and to see a PDF image of the dust jacket, you can click on this link: http://www.prefacepublishing.co.uk/downloads/lyttelton_b_format.pdf
As I mentioned in the last mailout, the publishers Preface are offering a special discount to subscribers to this mailing list. If you click on http://www.chairmanhumph.co.uk/ you can order a copy of Lyttelton's Britain at 35% off the retail price, which I'm told is cheaper than Amazon. All you have to do is click on 'pre-order now' and enter the promotional code 'Lyttelton' before purchasing, and the price will amend to £9.74 plus £2.75 postage, so £12.49 in total. I'm told it doesn't amend the price straight away - not till just before you complete your order.
2. The New Uxbridge English Dictionary. This is a follow up to The Uxbridge English Dictionary, the very popular first collection of 'new definitions' from I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, and is beautifully illustrated throughout. It contains new definitions by the ISIHAC regulars, with additional contributions from Rob Brydon, Jack Dee, Stephen Fry, Andy Hamilton, Jeremy Hardy, Tony Hawks, Ross Noble and Sandi Toksvig. Here's a link: http://www.harpercollins.co.uk/Contents/Title/Pages/default.aspx?objId=38997 The book is just £4.62 on Amazon, and Tim wanted me to point out that it is described by one reviewer as "the funniest book I have ever read".
3. The Doings of Hamish & Dougal - You'll Have Had Your Tea, by Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden. This is a collection of the complete scripts to the popular Hamish and Dougal radio series, with accompanying photos and captions. Here's the Amazon link to this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Doings-Hamish-Dougal-Youll-Have/dp/1848090234/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224253545&sr=8-3
4. I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue - Live On Stage. This is a DVD of the Tour show filmed at the Lowry Centre in Salford on 6th April 2008, just ten days before Humph went into hospital. It features the regular team of Tim, Barry, Graeme and Humph with Jeremy Hardy. And Colin on the piano of course. It contains nearly 2 hours and 12 minutes of material, and is a priceless souvenir for all fans of Humph and the show. It will be published on 10th November. I am negotiating with BBC Worldwide to see if they can do a discount price for members of the mailing list. I will send further details when I have them.
Finally, many of you have asked when the BBC4 tribute to Humphrey Lyttelton is going to be repeated. BBC4 tell me that they are thinking it will be in the run-up to Christmas, but don't yet have an exact date. I will of course let you know the details of this when I have them.
With best wishes
Jon Naismith
Producer, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
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Posted by lisa at 16/10/2008 21:00 GMT |
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| reminder: Tim on "I"ve Never Seen Star Wars" this Thursday (plus other shows) |
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Here's a list of upcoming tv & radio shows of interest to Goodies fans. "(NEW)" indicates shows added since the last update (some of which may be repeats). It's advisable to check your local listings for schedule changes.
Feel free to let us know about anything that should be added to the list - contributions & corrections are always welcome! (Thanks to everyone who's been helping with the spottings!)
(NEW) * Thurs, 16 Oct - "I've Never Seen Star Wars" with Tim on BBC Radio 4 at 18:30. It can be heard online from www.bbc.co.uk/radio4 and will be available for a week after broadcast from Listen Again.
(NEW) * Sat, 18 Oct - "The Archive Hour" this day is entitled "How Radio Comedy Changed a Nation" and includes contributions from Barry Cryer, among others. The program will air on BBC Radio 4 at 20:00-21:00 and can be heard online at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4. I don't know if the show will mention any of Tim, Graeme, & Bill's projects, but it sounds interesting - "Nicholas Parsons explores how radio comedy has developed and how it reveals much about the way the British live. Through rarely-heard archive material and interviews with writers, performers and comedians, he investigates the impact that radio comedy has had upon the nation. Including contributions from Paul Merton, Barry Cryer, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson and Sanjeev Bhaskar."
(NEW) * Tues, 21 Oct - "The Wright Stuff" on Five at 09:00-10:30. Bill is scheduled to be a guest on this day. (thanks to wackywales for posting this info in the club's forums)
(NEW) * Thurs & Fri, 23-24 Oct - "The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs", presented by Bill, is repeated on UKTV Documentary each day at 9:00. I suspect part 1 is airing Thursday and part 2 on Friday, but you should check your local listings to confirm this.
(NEW) * Mon, 27 Oct - an episode of "Bill Oddie Goes Wild" is repeated on UKTV Gardens at 20:00
* Mon-Thurs, Oct 27-Nov 6 - "Autumnwatch" with Bill Oddie returns for a new series.
* Mondays - "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again" with Tim, Graeme & Bill is being repeated on BBC Radio 7 at 12.30pm and 7.30pm. The show can be heard worldwide via the internet from www.bbc.co.uk/radio7; each episode will be available for a week after broadcast from Listen Again at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b009zbr2
* Sundays - "Hello Cheeky" on BBC Radio 7 at 13:30 (repeated later in the day at 19:30 and Monday morning at 6:30). The show can be heard worldwide via the internet from www.bbc.co.uk/radio7; each episode will be available for a week after broadcast from Listen Again (on the BBC 7 website or at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00db2x8).
* various dates & times - The Comedy Channel in Australia occasionally is repeating episodes of "The Goodies". Consult their website (at http://www.comedychannel.com.au/WhatsOn/Detail.aspx?id=211) for details about any episodes coming up in the next 7 days.
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Posted by lisa at 14/10/2008 00:00 GMT |
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| Bill's "Comedy Controller" being repeated on BBC 7 tomorrow |
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Bill's appearance in BBC 7's "Comedy Controller" is scheduled to be repeated tomorrow (Sat, Oct 11th). Below is a listing for the show.
Please note that BBC 7 has changed its name to BBC Radio 7 (I won't guarantee how long it'll take me to remember to say "Radio 7" instead of "BBC 7".  The show can be heard online from http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio7/ during broadcast; it will be available from Listen Again (via the BBC iplayer) for a week after broadcast.
Comedy Controller: Bill Oddie
There's a difference to this week's selection programme as Bill Oddie delivers his thesis on The Development of Radio Comedy in the 20th Century. This hugely entertaining lecture from Oddie the Ornothologist, incorporates: 'Up The Pole' (1st broadcast 01/11/1948), 'ITMA' (06/01/1949), 'Archie's The Boy' (11/11/1954), 'Beyond Our Ken' (27/05/1960), 'On The Hour' (14/05/1992) and 'On The Town with the League of Gentlemen' (27/11/1997).
Saturday at 9am, 8pm and 3am
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Posted by lisa at 09/10/2008 22:00 GMT |
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| new ISIHAC CD - "Chairman Humph A Tribute" |
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The tribute to Humphrey Lyttelton which was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 a few months ago is scheduled to be released on Audio CD on 13 November. Here are the details:
"I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue: Chairman Humph A Tribute"
Audio CD
Release Date: 13 Nov 2008
Suggested Retail Price: £8.99
Product Description
"Stephen Fry presents a special tribute to Humphrey Lyttelton, the sublime host of "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue", through the eyes of his close pals on the show and distinguished admirers, from Dame Judi Dench to Radiohead. The programme features many highlights taken from his thirty-six years at the helm of Radio 4's perennial antidote to panel games."
As a reminder for Clue fans, a number of other titles (listed below) are scheduled for release in the near future. If you'd like to write a review of any of these items, we're always eager for contributors to club's website and the Clarion & Globe newsletter (send any C&G submissions to
clarion@goodiesruleok.com)
* I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue: v. 11 (Audio CD)
Scheduled release date: 9 Oct 2009
Recommended Retail Price: £12.99
Product Description
This is the eleventh quartet of "Clue" editions from recent series, with the regular team of Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Barry Cryer - plus special guest players - being given silly things to do by chairman Humphrey Lyttelton.
* Lyttelton's Britain: A User's Guide to the British Isles as Heard on BBC Radio's "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" (Hardcover)
Scheduled release date: 9 Oct 2008
Recommended Retail Price: £14.99
Short Product Description
The "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" team of Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor, in the company of their esteemed chairman Humphrey Lyttelton, have been recording their BBC radio show around the UK for longer than any of them can remember...that's about week - or twenty minutes in the case of Barry Cryer. At each venue Humph would present a short history of the location, written by Iain Pattinson, to the mutual delight of the audience, the team and their delightful scorer Samantha (who somehow always found time for a rewarding poke in the area's back streets).We are privileged to present, in gazetteer form, the very best of Humph's local histories from Radio 4's multi award-winning 'antidote to panel games'.
* Last Chorus: An Autobiographical Medley (Hardcover)
by Humphrey Lyttelton
Scheduled release date: 25 Oct 2008
Recommended RRP: £18.99
Short Product Description
A feast for all his many fans and admirers, this is the great Humphrey Lyttelton s last book, a sparkling autobiographical kaleidoscope of memories, anecdotes, and entertaining stories from his colourful life, from his childhood as the son of a famous Eton Housemaster, through to his role as the irrepressible chairman of I m Sorry I Haven t a Clue.
* I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Live On Stage (DVD)
Release Date: 10 Nov 2008
Run Time: 90 minutes
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Posted by lisa at 08/10/2008 22:00 GMT |
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| Tim won't be in series 2 of "What the Dickens?" |
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Thanks to Alison Bean for passing along the following info about series 2 of "What the Dickens". It appears Tim will not be one of the panelists (he was a team captain in series 1).
WHAT THE DICKENS?
What The Dickens? is an exciting and lively panel show about the arts, covering films, books, music and theatre. This brand new series is presented by perhaps Britain’s - and definitely Denmark’s - funniest woman, Sandi Toksvig, who delivers more laughs per inch than any other performer working today. The team captains are Lab Rats & The Ape that Got Lucky comedian Chris Addison and this year's Maestro winner Sue Perkins.
Following on from the successful first series, which included, among others, Dave Gorman, Marcus Brigstocke, Robin Ince, Rich Hall and Dom Joly, the panellists will again hail from the worlds of comedy and TV, with a sprinkling of writers and actors, who will take part in a series of hilarious and witty rounds, with the emphasis on getting laughs as well as getting the answers right. This year's panellists will include Richard Herring, Jenny Éclair, Stephen K Amos, Dave Gorman, Mark Steel & Jackie Clune.
This series will be recorded at Sky’s studios in West London (nearest tube: Osterley in zone 4 of the Picadilly line, nearest station: Syon Lane) on Tuesday 7th, Friday 10th, Monday 13th October & Monday 10th, Monday 17th, Tuesday 18th November 2008 at 7.00pm. If you would like to join us, then apply now!
Booking is now open and may apply online via our website at http://www.sroaudiences.com
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Posted by lisa at 30/09/2008 19:00 GMT |
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| news from the I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue mailing list |
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The following is a mailing from the official I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue mailing list.
An additional piece of ISIHAC news comes from last week's BBC 7 Newsletter, which said, "Fans of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue will be pleased to know that the series (archive programmes of course) will be returning to BBC 7 later in the autumn."
-----Original Message-----
From: ISIHAC Info [mailto:isihac@btinternet.com]
Subject: I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Mailout 17.09.08
Dear I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Mailing List Member,
It seems an opportune moment to communicate after the hiatus caused by the death of our beloved Chairman Humph in April this year.
Firstly, on behalf of the team, I'd like to thank the thousands of you who sent us messages of condolence. There were so many I regret I have still not replied to 900 or so - I promise I will in due course. And belatedly, on Humph's behalf, I'd like to thank the thousands who sent Humph "Get Well" messages when he first went into hospital. I spent several hours printing out as many as I could and took a huge pile of them in for Humph to read in his hospital bed. I'm so pleased he was able to able to appreciate the scale of everyone's affection for him at what must have been a very worrying time.
You will probably have heard the various Radio tributes to Humph since his death. I do hope you caught the ISIHAC team's tribute to the great man on 15th June narrated by Stephen Fry. If you didn't, I'm pleased to say that BBC Audiobooks will be releasing it later this year, together with the show Humph In Wonderland which we recorded last Christmas. I will send further details of these in due course.
And you might also have read Radio 4's announcement that we will be continuing with I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue in 2009. We have all been slightly ambivalent about continuing the show without Humph, but have been greatly encouraged by the huge number of emails you've sent encouraging us to keep going. Despite the rumours, we've made no decisions about possible replacements for Humph, and are unlikely to make any decisions this year at least. Certainly I don't envisage us selecting anyone on a permanent basis for several series.
For anyone suffering withdrawal symptoms in the absence of their biannual dose of 'Clue', there are several programmes and publications either currently available or in the pipeline...
* On BBC iPlayer you can currently catch both the BBC4 tribute to Humph, and a half-hour excerpt from the ISIHAC Tour show we filmed at the Lowry Centre in Salford earlier this year. This is the only complete film of ISIHAC in existence and was the last recording Humph made before he went into hospital just ten days later. We will be releasing the entire show as a DVD in due course, hopefully by Christmas. The links to the iPlayer shows are as follows: For the BBC4 Humph Tribute it's http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00ddwcy/ and for the half-hour tour show except it's http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00dmpd2/
* On 10th October our publisher Trevor Dolby at Preface Books is bringing out the complete collection of Humph's introductions to all the places we visited over seventeen years touring the show, written by Iain Pattinson. The book is entitled Lyttelton's Britain and contains a large amount of previously unbroadcast material. As I say in a foreword to the book, I think the combination of Iain Pattinson and Humphrey Lyttelton has been the single most important writer/performer partnership in British Radio since Galton & Simpson started writing for Tony Hancock. It's a wonderful and hilarious collection and I confidently predict it will be a best-seller. You can pre-order a copy of Lyttelton's Britain now, and Trevor is offering this book at a special discounted rate of 35% off the retail price to members of this mailing list - that's less than Amazon. Just go to http://www.chairmanhumph.co.uk/ and click on 'Pre-Order Now', then enter the promotional code 'Lyttelton' before purchasing, and the price will amend to £9.74 plus £2.75 postage, so £12.49 in total.
* Finally, I must tell you that our good friend and Clue regular Andy Hamilton is touring his one man show 'Hat of Doom' around the country over twenty dates from now until early December. You will of course know Andy from his regular appearances on The News Quiz as well as Radio 4's Old Harry's Game. Andy was co-creator and writer of Channel 4's legendary Drop The Dead Donkey and has recently co-created and written the stunningly good BBC1 sitcom Outnumbered, which returns for a second series this Autumn. For the complete list of Andy's tour dates, go to: http://www.varietylives.com/schedule.html
And that's about it for now. I will of course keep you posted of any future developments.
With best wishes
Jon Naismith
Producer, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
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Posted by lisa at 17/09/2008 02:00 GMT |
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| Graeme Garden & Barry Cryer interviews |
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Thanks to Edna for letting us know that Graeme & Barry were interviewed on Les Ross's Show on BBC WM today (Weds, Sept. 10th) to promote their new book, "The Doings of Hamish & Dougal". This episode should be available on Listen Again until next Wednesday's edition airs from http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks/wm/aod.shtml?wm/les_ross_wed. Graeme & Barry's interview starts around the 2 hour mark.
Also, thanks to the good folks at the Saucy Gibbon forum who reported that Graeme & Barry will appear on the Alan Titchmarsh Show on ITV 1 tomorrow (Thurs., Sept 11th); the show airs from 3-4pm.
Let us know if you spot any of Graeme & Barry's other radio interviews!
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Posted by lisa at 10/09/2008 00:30 GMT |
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| the latest upcoming shows list |
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Use the "click here for more" link below to see the latest list of upcoming tv & radio shows of interest to Goodies fans.
Also, be on the lookout for Graeme Garden & Barry Cryer's local radio interviews tomorrow (Wednesday, Sept. 10th) and their upcoming appearance on Alan Titchmarsh's TV show to promote their new book "The Doings of Hamish & Dougal". Let us know if you spot the info!
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Posted by lisa at 09/09/2008 00:30 GMT |
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| BBC 4 Humph & ISIHAC specials (Sept 12th & 13th) |
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Here's a summary of the Humphrey Lyttelton & I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue specials to be shown on BBC 4 this coming Friday & Saturday.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12th:
21:00-22:00 Legends
Humphrey Lyttelton.
A profile of the late jazz musician, band leader and broadcaster Humphrey Lyttelton's 60-year career. Louis Armstrong described him as Britain's top trumpeter, but for more than 40 years he was equally well-known for hosting some of the BBC's most successful radio shows, including Radio 2's Best of Jazz and the hugely popular antidote to panel game shows, Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, in which Humph propelled the art of the double entendre to new heights.
22:00-22:50 Humph's Last Stand
Jazz trumpeter and raconteur Humphrey Lyttelton in a performance at the 2007 HSBC Brecon Jazz Festival, which turned out to be his last ever television recording. With an all star line-up including guest saxophonist Scott Hamilton, it is a set full of sheer wit and superb music.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13th:
22:30 - 23:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
Filmed in April 2008, just three weeks before his death, Humphrey Lyttelton chaired his final I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue at the Lowry Centre's Lyric Theatre in Salford. This touring show features many of Humph's best lines favourite rounds from the Radio 4 series, and is the only complete filmed version of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue in existence. The cast is the regular line up of Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and pianist Colin Sell, with Jeremy Hardy as the guest panellist.
23:00 - 00:00 Legends (repeated)
00:00 - 00:50 Humph's Last Stand (repeated)
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Posted by lisa at 08/09/2008 00:00 GMT |
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| news from Graeme - forthcoming "Hamish & Dougal" interviews |
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Graeme Garden has kindly passed along the following info about upcoming publicity for their new book "The Doings of Hamish & Dougal":
Baz and I are doing some local radio interviews on Wednesday, and recording a piece for the Alan Titchmarsh TV show, but I don't yet know when any of them will be broadcast.
Thanks, Graeme!
Everyone - let us know if you spot listings for any of the interviews.
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Posted by lisa at 07/09/2008 01:30 GMT |
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| news from Graeme about "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" DVD & Sept. 13th broadcast |
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Thanks to Graeme Garden for passing along the following news:
We've been working on the video recording of the stage version of Clue from Salford. We're hoping to release a DVD in November, and BBC4 are hoping to broadcast a 30 minute version on Sept 13th - so tell the chums to keep an eye out for that.
Club member Sosia had spotted a preliminary listing for the DVD on Amazon. Expect the information there (including the release date) to be updated in the future.
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Posted by lisa at 03/09/2008 00:00 GMT |
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| "Humph Remembered" - Sept 12th on BBC 4 |
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Humphrey Lyttelton is the subject of the Friday, Sept. 12th edition of "Legends" on BBC 4 at 9pm. The show will include interviews with his Clue cast mates including Tim & Graeme.
The show will be followed by a special called "Humph's Last Stand", featuring his performance at a 2007 jazz festival (on BBC 4 at 10pm).
Following are more detailed listings for the two shows:
Humph remembered
Legends, showing Friday September 12th on BBC 4 at 9:00pm
In a career spanning more than 60 years, Humphrey Lyttelton, who was born in 1921 and died earlier this year, established himself as one of Britain's greatest musicians, successful band leaders and admired broadcasters.
As a jazzman, "Humph" composed and performed Bad Penny Blues - the first jazz recording to enter the charts - and was feted by no less a figure than Louis Armstrong, who described him as this country's top trumpeter.
For more than 40 years, he hosted some of the BBC's most successful radio shows, including Radio 4's hugely popular I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, the "antidote to panel game shows" in which Humph propelled the art of the double entendre to new heights, and Radio 2's Best Of Jazz.
In this programme, family, friends and colleagues pay tribute to this enormously popular entertainer. Featuring some never-before-seen home movie footage, archive films of his finest performances and interviews with regular I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue panellists Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer, Jeremy Hardy, Rob Brydon and Sandi Toksvig, as well as Humph's son, Stephen, this film celebrates the life and career of one of Britain's most admired musicians and best-loved broadcasters.
Did you know? Bad Penny Blues - a top 20 hit for the Humphrey Lyttelton Band in 1956 - is acknowledged as the first British jazz record to make the UK charts. Produced by the infamous Joe Meek - who was noted for his pioneering, experimental production work in the 1960s - it featured a catchy piano riff, played by Johnny Parker, brought up high within the mix.
Humph's Last Stand
Friday 12th September on BBC 4 at 22:00 to 22:50
Jazz trumpeter and raconteur Humphrey Lyttelton in a performance at the 2007 HSBC Brecon Jazz Festival, which turned out to be his last ever television recording. With an all star line-up including guest saxophonist Scott Hamilton, it is a set full of sheer wit and superb music.
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Posted by lisa at 01/09/2008 00:30 GMT |
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| possible on sale date for Tim and Graeme’s Classic Keaton Shorts in Berkhamstead |
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As was previously reported, Tim & Graeme will be reprising the Buster Keaton show they presented at Slapstick 2008 in September on 7 Sept at The Rex Cinema in Berkhamstead and on 14 Sept at The Barbican in London.
According to the Rex Cinema's website, their September tickets will go on general release this Saturday, 23 August, at 10.30am. Their Box Office can be reached at 01442 877759
Tickets for the Barbican show have been available from http://www.barbican.org.uk/film/event-detail.asp?ID=7876 or by calling the Box Office at 020 7638 8891 (9am-8pm daily).
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Posted by lisa at 20/08/2008 00:00 GMT |
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| "Would I Lie To You" with Graeme to be broadcast Aug. 29th |
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Thanks to wackywales for posting the following in the forums:
Well, he's kept us waiting till the end of the series but Graeme's episode of 'Would I Lie To You?' will finally be broadcast at 9pm, BBC 1 on Friday 29th August.
From my tv mag...
"Would I Lie To You? Last in the panel game series. Tonight's guests are former Eastender Phil Daniels, TV host Lauren Laverne, comedian Michael McIntyre and former Goodie Graeme Garden"
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Posted by lisa at 19/08/2008 00:00 GMT |
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| Humphrey Lyttelton autobiography to be published in October |
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"Last Chorus: An Autobiographical Medley" by Humphrey Lyttelton is scheduled to be published on October 25th.
Amazon's listing for the book can be found at http://www.amazon.co.uk/Last-Chorus-Autobiographical-Humphrey-Lyttelton/dp/1906217181/
An article at Bookseller.com gives more details about the book, including the fact that Humph's son Stephen has been involved in putting it together:
Encore for 'Humph'
14.08.08 Catherine Neilan
JR Books is publishing the "ultimate" Humphrey Lyttelton book, drawing on a collection of diaries, letters, caricatures, cartoons and photos spanning 50 years.
Last Chorus by Humphrey Lyttelton will be published in hardback in October priced £18.99. The book chronicles the life of the jazz musician and former chair of BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue". Lyttelton died in April aged 86.
Jeremy Robson, publisher at JR Books, described the collection as "absolutely captivating and a real treasure trove". He added: "The diaries, beautifully written in his own fine hand and often very revealing, are a work of art in themselves."
The 400 to 500-page book takes readers from his childhood as the son of an Eton housemaster and his time in the Army, through to his life as a jazz musician playing with legendary figures such as Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, and his many years on the Radio 4 comedy quiz show.
As well as hosting "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue", Lyttelton was also the host of BBC Radio 2's "The Best of Jazz" for more than 40 years.
"He was an absolutely wonderful writer—not a comma needed changing," said Robson. "I have been working closely with Humph's son Stephen on a daily basis, sifting and organising the material into what we see as the ultimate Lyttelton book. It is a real privilege to be publishing it."
Robson said the book would offer a rare glimpse into Lyttelton's life."What has been touching since he died is that thousands of people have been sending messages to the website, many of them quite young. They all talk as if they knew him, and [Stephen] feels this book is a way of knowing him for more than just being on the radio."
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Posted by lisa at 14/08/2008 01:00 GMT |
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| Humph wins Radio 2 Artist of the Year award |
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The following article (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7518616.stm) about the BBC Jazz Awards mentions that Humphrey Lyttelton won the Radio 2 artist of the year award:
Tobin wins best BBC jazz vocalist
Last updated at 00:13 GMT, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 01:13 UK
Christine Tobin has won best vocalist at this year's BBC Jazz Awards.
Saxophonist Tony Kofi picked up best instrumentalist at a ceremony hosted by Paul Gambaccini at The Mermaid Theatre in London.
The album of the year award went to Bristol quartet The Blessing, who have performed with acts such as Portishead and Robert Plant.
The lifetime achievement award went to the band Return To Forever, who include legendary keyboardist Chick Corea.
The Radio 2 artist of the year award went to Humphrey Lyttelton, who died in April aged 86, and who recorded the first jazz record to enter the UK singles chart in 1956.
The ceremony will be broadcast on Radio 2 on Tuesday 22 July at 2230 BST, with highlights played on the Jazz Line-Up show on Radio 3 on Saturday 26 July at 1600 BST.
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| update about latest ISIHAC CD (Live Vol. 2) |
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I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue Live Volume 2 is scheduled for release in the UK tomorrow. Besides being sold as a 2-CD set it should also be available for download from various retailers.
The product description has been updated to specify that the set will include shows from 1995 and 1996 which included Willie Rushton. Here's the full blurb from Amazon.co.uk:
This book contains two more specially compiled, extended editions featuring all the bits that were never broadcast on radio. For everyone who's ever wanted to attend a live recording of "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue", but never had the opportunity, here's your chance to catch the complete "Clue" experience. From out-takes and ad-libs to asides to the audience - including some very cheeky banter - here are all the bits you never get to hear on the radio, as well as all the puns, songs, silly games and sparkling comedy that you've come to expect from the Clue team.These two specially extended compilations, from 1995 and 1996, feature players Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Willie Rushton, with introductions by "Clue" producer Jon Naismith. Proceedings are chaired by the late, great Humphrey Lyttelton. They include all your favourite games: "One Song to the Tune of Another", "Cheddar Gorge", "Sound Charades", "Doctors' Song Book", plus there's "Name that Barcode", "Radio Times 2010", "Celebrity Organs", "Odd One Out", "Stars in Their Ears" - and one that features a famous Underground station...So get behind the scenes with this CD and find out just how much fun a "Clue" recording can be.
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| BBC Radio 4 "Humph Day" info & article from The Times |
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This Sunday BBC Radio 4 presents several tributes to Humphrey Lyttelton (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/schedule/2008/06/15/day/). The event is the top story in both Radio 4 and BBC 7's weekly newsletters; there is also an article in The Times (at http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article4105629.ece).
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Excerpts from the Radio 4 newsletter
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/newsletter/):
Friday 13 - Friday 20 June 2008
Hello fellow listeners,
As a tribute to our much loved colleague, the late Humphrey Lyttelton, we're broadcasting three programmes on Sunday in celebration of his life. Dubbed Humph Day, there's another chance to hear his final appearance on Desert Island Discs; an hour-long tribute presented by Stephen Fry; and a programme Humphrey Lyttelton made about Louis Prima - one of his own heroes.
Sunday 15 June
Desert Island Discs, 11.15am-midday
Another chance to hear Humphry Lyttelton's final appearance as Kirsty Young's guest. Note: not repeated on Friday.
Chairman Humph, 12.00-1.00pm
Stephen Fry presents a special tribute to Humphrey Lyttelton, the host of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, through the eyes of his close pals on the show and distinguished admirers from Dame Judi Dench to Radiohead.
The King of the Swingers, 1.30-2.00pm
Humphrey Lyttelton profiles Louis Prima, one of the most prolific and accomplished jazz musicians of the 20th century, who is sadly now remembered mostly for his role as a cartoon monkey.
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Excerpts from the BBC 7 Newsletter
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/newsletter/newsletter_thisweek.shtml):
Hello again
I don't usually begin my newsletter by recommending that you switch over to another radio station, but in this instance, I suggest that on Sunday some of you might like to join our sister station, Radio 4, to catch " Humph Sunday"
Humphrey Lyttelton, widely regarded as a National Treasure, was once described (apparently to his great delight) as " trumpeter and broadcaster, and purveyor of blue-chip filth to the nation"
Alongside his music, and his 36 years in the driver's seat of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue", Humph unquestionably brought fun, joy and laughter to millions of listeners.
When the news of his death was announced in April this year, the BBC was inundated by his many fans who wanted to pay tribute to him.
Radio 4 will be broadcasting its own special tribute and appreciation on 15th June, on what has been affectionately named Humph Sunday.
There will be almost three hours celebrating all sorts of things that are Humph, beginning with his Desert Island Discs, (from November 2007) followed by Chairman Humph, a one-hour homage warmly presented by Stephen Fry, with contributions from many friends and colleagues.
To finish off, you can catch Humph's profile of jazz musician Louis Prima (well-known in jazz circles, but most probably remembered as the voice King Louis, King of the Swingers in the film of The Jungle Book.
And King of the Swingers is the name of that programme.
I'll certainly be listening in.
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ARTICLE FROM THE TIMES ONLINE
(http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article4105629.ece):
From The Times
June 14, 2008
Radio 4 celebrates the life of Humphrey Lyttelton
Alan Franks
National monuments like Humphrey Lyttelton tend to have characteristics willed on to them by an admiring public. Many of these, for example his commitment to silliness, are accurate; others, such as the notion that he was endlessly freewheeling and gregarious, less so. Philip Larkin, the poet and jazz lover, surely got it right when he wrote of the veteran trumpeter and radio host: "One mustn't be misled by the amiable, bumbling persona...
He is a toughly intelligent man moving confidently in any kind of surroundings from Windsor Castle to Birdland."
That spectrum takes in the Mick Jagger Centre in Dartford, Kent, which is where I met him on a filthy Friday evening a year before his death. He was 85, and by then diminished to a mere 6ft - four inches less than the height of his prime. He was still an imposing, elegant figure. He had just driven down from his home in the far north of London, and was bearing the essentials of his trade; in one hand a trumpet case with a thoroughly lived-in look; in the other the lightweight suit still wrapped in the Mill Hill dry-cleaners' polythene.
In the sense that he was purposeful, punctual, eyeing the terrain for signs of his band members, he corroborated Larkin's reading. At the same time there was something mildly hunted about him. This may well have been because of the sheer freight of association with chaos that 34 years in the chair of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue would place on anyone's shoulders. While talking to him, and to people who knew him, I became convinced that his distinctive thing - his chop, as musicians say - was to border-cross; to be in places that you might not expect to find him, and then to give the probably accurate impression that he felt thoroughly at home.
It started with his birth, in 1921, which occurred in Eton. Once he had become famous in the postwar years, some thought he was having them on when he answered straight questions about his origins with straight answers. It was not just Eton the place, but Eton the school. His father was no less than the Hon George Lyttelton, who was a teacher there. So Humphrey was in effect born at Eton, duly went there as a pupil and might even have considered following in his father's professional footsteps if he had been more academically inclined and less crazy about music. One woman who knew him as a very young man on family holidays in Suffolk recalls a delightful, rather distrait character who couldn't be bothered with socks. In a classic and symbolic piece of bunking off, the teenage Humphrey walked off from an Eton v Harrow cricket match at Lords and went to Charing Cross Road to buy himself a trumpet.
Then there was the war, or rather the effects of it - the erosion of class barriers and the easing of a "downward" passage into what was considered bohemia. But again, if you look at something that had happened to him before he joined the Army (he served in North Africa and Italy) - it explains much of his deliberate journey away from privilege. "One of my father's brothers was the director of a steel firm in South Wales," he said. "My cousin and I went down there to work. It was most uncomfortable because the workers there thought we were management spies. Eventually a foreman called Fred befriended us and got us to meet the rest of the workforce. He asked the MD if we could work in the smelting shop, which meant throwing all kinds of stones, dolomite, manganese into the furnace. It was the lowest form really.
He took us to the working men's clubs and I started playing the trumpet there."
It might not have been quite such a public renunciation of class birthright as that of the public school-educated former 2nd Viscount Stansgate Tony Benn, but a socialist he was. When, at the Mick Jagger Centre, I asked him if it was true that he had turned down a knighthood from John Major, he effectively snubbed the question by doing an impression of a senior moment.
It was, in a different sense, pure class. Even his chairmanship of Clue could be seen as a subversion of authority, even if that authority was notionally his own.
Although he never tried to disguise his roots, he never flouted them. Far from the Old Etonian tradition of sticking close with your fellow alumni, visible still through David Cameron, Lyttelton was wary rather than proud if a bunch of them turned up at his gigs.
For someone who was for so long in the public eye, and who had chosen the most extroverted of instruments, the intensity of his privacy may have looked odd; it was of course, as Larkin implied, a necessary part of keeping the show on the road. Most musicians who worked with him had nothing but respect and affection, but even they were alarmed to discover that none of them had his phone number, and that if by some error it ever leaked, he would have it changed immediately. To my surprise he did talk of the pain of losing his wife Jill the previous year after a long struggle with the degenerative brain disease progressive supranuclear palsy. "Oh, it was a horrible thing," he said, shaking his head. "Eight or nine years. All the things she loved doing, they shut down one by one."
But then, like a bandleader striking into a brighter number: "No good agonising. I don't agonise over many things. I mean, I could agonise over my father's treatment of me in the Easter holidays. We can all allow these things to hang on and take over our lives."
It was not until he died that I realised the biggest boundary he crossed in his life was the one between the past and the present - for want of a subtler definition, the pre- and the post-Diana Britains. This was both a stoical gentleman from the war generation and an artist who enacted such New Age-friendly ideals as living in the moment, acknowledging the healing power of music and becoming the person he was meant to be.
His funeral in London on May 6 was a private affair. Family and friends only. On the order of service were these words, written many years before, by Lyttelton: "As we journey through life, discarding baggage along the way, we should keep an iron grip, to the very end, on the capacity for silliness.
It preserves the soul from desiccation." He knew as well as any educated Englishman the link between that deceptive word "silly" and its Germanic origin selig, meaning blessed.
After my article appeared I got a letter with a Suffolk postmark. It was from the woman who recalled his youthful charm - Patricia, his first wife and mother of their daughter, Henrietta, who is now a grandmother herself.
Humphrey had left when the girl was 2, and there were periods when there was not much contact. Patricia tells of an occasion when she and Henrietta surprised him in the interval of a concert at Aldeburgh by joining the queue for signed CDs. Henrietta says she developed a very warm relationship with him, and with her two brothers and sister. "He was a wonderful father to have," she says. "Very interested, and always tremendous company." Whatever happened all those years earlier, both women seem to have enacted his principle of no agonising.
Lyttelton also rang me to leave a message, saying thanks for the chat. I rang back but got caller withheld ... naturally. In such a long playing life, it was one of the few numbers of which there was no record.
Radio 4 on Sunday: Desert Island Discs, 11.15am; Chairman Humph - a Tribute, noon; The King of the Swingers - Lyttelton profiles Louis Prima, 1.30pm
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| Barry Cryer article from The Times - "How will we ever get over the Humph?" |
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The following "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" related article appears in today's edition of The Times Online:
From The Times
June 9, 2008
How will we ever get over the Humph?
Humphrey Lyttelton was loved by millions but known only by a few, yet it's hard to know who could take his place
Barry Cryer
I knew Humph for 53 years. I worked with him on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue for 36 years. But the first time I saw his house was on the day of his funeral. None of us had been there, because he was an obsessively private man. He never told anyone his phone number. If his number was ever leaked, he changed it. If you wanted to get in touch, you rang his manager, Sue, who rang Humph, who rang you. That was fine. That was just Humph.
His house, it turned out, was totally Humph. It had no windows on the outside. All the windows faced inwards into some sort of courtyard.After Jill, his wife, died in 2006, he started talking a bit more about how he felt about things. But he kept a strict divide between his personal and his professional life. We all respected that.
He died on April 25, after an operation on an aortic aneurysm. After his death, it was a bit like when Eric Morecambe or Willie Rushton died. People felt they knew them. Certain people impinge on the general consciousness like that, they make an impact on people.
He was 50 when he first did Clue. He'd already had a life, was already a jazz star. And he relished it. He talked a lot about how he admired Kenneth Horne. You can see the lineage - the urbane chairman among the idiots, the squire and the incompetent gardener. But Humph brought the grumpiness, then built up the air of irritation and boredom over the years.
He never swore - too much style for that. Well, hardly ever. The last show we ever did with him was on our live tour, in Harrogate, just a few weeks ago. We were all at the same hotel. At breakfast he had prunes. He took one bite, looked up from his bowl and said: “How can you f*** up a prune?”
There's nobody like him. You can't say someone is a sort-of Humphrey Lyttelton. It's his era. The patrician courteousness. He broke the mould: Old Etonian, the Guards, then jazz. Labour Party all his adult life.
I never saw him lose his temper. A lot of band leaders are respected but not really liked. He wasn't liked by his musicians, he was loved. And he loved the contrast between Clue, where everything was prepared for him, and organising the band.
A lot the obituaries quoted his lines - Humph used to call them “blue-chip filth” - as if they were written by him. In fact they were written by Iain Pattinson. But nobody else could have got away with delivering those doubles entendres. He created this air of “Well, I've been given this to do”. He made it look effortless, which of course it wasn't.
He was good at everything he did, really. Ornithology. Cartooning. Calligraphy. It sounds as if I'm talking about a saint. Well, he was a three-dimensional man. But if I'm asked to list his faults, I fail to find any.
I'm going to miss the recordings, of course. As to whether the show continues without him, it's all up in the air. There is a strong school of thought that says we should stop now. Then again, Humph once said, ‘If I went under a bus, there should be no misplaced loyalty'.
Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and I had to talk about this now and then. It was always painful. We could smugly suggest that we'll continue as a tribute to him. More selfishly, we'd continue because we adore doing it. Maybe it could be like Have I Got News For You, with guest hosts. We'll see. But Humph was the hub. It will never be the same again, I know that much.
Humphrey Lyttelton Day is on Radio 4 on Sunday from 11.15am.
As told to Dominic Maxwell
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Posted by lisa at 09/06/2008 00:00 GMT |
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| info about Radio 4's ISIHAC repeats & Humph tributes (plus other upcoming shows) |
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Six classic episodes of "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" will begin airing on BBC Radio 4 on Mondays starting 16 June. The first repeat will be a 1993 episode featuring Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Willie Rushton, with Humphrey Lyttelton in the chair and Colin Sell on piano.
The day before, Radio 4 will air several tributes to Humphrey Lyttelton.
For details about these and other upcoming shows of interest to Goodies fans use the "click here for more" link below.
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Posted by lisa at 07/06/2008 00:00 GMT |
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| "Lyttelton's Britain" (ISIHAC tie-in book) to be published in October |
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Thanks to wackywales for spotting this.
A book entitled "Lyttelton's Britain: Humphrey Lyttelton's Gazetter of the British Isles" is scheduled to be published in the UK on 2 Oct 2008. Here's a description, from Amazon.co.uk:
For 35 years Humphrey Lyttelton and the team of Barry Cryer, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden have toured this great country in search of the perfect audience. In the next 30 or 40 years, they hope to brush with at least one. At every venue a short history is presented both to the audience and their delightful scorer Samantha (who it seems is always happy to rub along with the local gentlemen). This is a collection, a Baedeker, an AA guide if you will, of things little-known about our great island, seen through their eyes, travelling from the celebrated Judi Dench Cottage in the Lakes to the 'Venice of the South' also known as Camden's Hawley Arms. 'Britain, Britain, Britain,' as was once said by lesser mortals. Well, now here it is...
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Posted by lisa at 29/05/2008 00:00 GMT |
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| Bill on "Star Portraits", Goodies repeats, and other upcoming shows |
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A full list of upcoming shows of interest to Goodies fans can be found by using the "click here for more" link below. Here are a few of the highlights from that list:
* Sun, 18 May - "The Goodies" episode "The Baddies" is being repeated by The Comedy Channel in Australia at 10:00pm.
* Mon, May 19 - episodes of "The Goodies" (probably from the LWT
series) will be repeated on Paramount Comedy 2 in the UK at 21.00 & 21.30.
They will be shown again at 24.00. Paramount Comedy 2+1 will show the episodes an hour later than the main channel. (Thanks to Jenny_Gibbon for posting the info in the forums and Michael C. for posting additional details to goodies-l)
* Tues, 20 May - "Star Portraits with Rolf Harris" on the ABC (Australia) at 8:00pm is supposed to be the episode featuring Bill Oddie (details at http://www.abc.net.au/tv/guide/netw/200805/programs/ZY8744A003D20052008T200000.htm). Thanks to mynameishelga, RatDog, and Daniel B.for posting the details in the forums & on goodies-l
* Mondays - "The Unbelievable Truth" returns for a second series on BBC Radio 4 at 18:30. The show will be available online at
[url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks/radio4/aod.shtml?radio4/unbelievabletruth]www.bbc.co.uk/radio4[/url[ and for a week after broadcast from Listen Again at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks/radio4/aod.shtml?radio4/unbelievabletruth.
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Posted by lisa at 15/05/2008 00:00 GMT |
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| BBC 7 competition to win signed ISIRTA box set (open to UK residents only) |
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The new issue of BBC 7's newsletter
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/newsletter/newsletter_thisweek.shtml) says "After the recording [of Graeme's "I Did It My Way", the producer] asked him if he would autograph some sleeves of CD boxed sets of "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again" and he was more than willing to oblige. As a result, we have 3 boxed sets of 8 CDs of I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again, consisting of 15 programmes from the groundbreaking series, including the first programme ever, plus the 25th anniversary edition. All beautifully packaged, and signed by Graeme Garden."
The competition info, from
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/newsletter/newsletter_thisweek.shtml#13:
To enter the competition, all you have to do is answer the following question Q "On what date was the first programme in the first series of "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again" broadcast, and what were the names of the entire cast?"
Email your answers to "Graeme Garden Competition" at bbc7@bbc.co.uk
Or alternatively send your entry by post to:
BBC7
Room 4015
Broadcasting House
London W1A 1AA
The competition closes at noon on Friday 30th May, when 3 names will be chosen at random from the BBC 7 Hat. Competition rules can be found by following this link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/help/rules.shtml
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Posted by lisa at 09/05/2008 00:30 GMT |
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| ISIHAC news: new date for tribute to Humph plus merchandise updates |
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According to The Officially Unofficial I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Web Pages (www.isihac.co.uk), the tribute show by the ISIHAC teams originally announced for this coming Sunday will now be part of BBC Radio 4's Humphrey Lyttelton Day on Sunday 15th June. The show is called "Chairman Humph - a Tribute" and will start at noon.
In ISIHAC Merchandise News:
* The New Uxbridge English Dictionary's publication date was yesterday (May 6th). Amazon.co.uk currently is reporting a 1-2 week delay before they'll have the books in stock. http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-New-Uxbridge-English-Dictionary/dp/0007263937/
* "I’m Sorry I Haven't A Clue Collection 3" was released on March 3rd. This is a boxed set of the previously released volumes 7, 8, & 9 (each of which is a 2 CD set). http://www.amazon.co.uk/Im-Sorry-Havent-Clue-Collection/dp/0563510420/
* "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Live Vol. 2" is a 2 CD set scheduled for release on July 10th. This release has been scheduled for a while; I forgot to mention it to the fan club when I first noticed it. I wanted to ensure people didn't think this is a new item being rushed out due to Humph having passed away.
This will be like ISIHAC Live Vol. 1, as explained in the official blurb (from http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sorry-Havent-Clue-Live-Collection/dp/140568836X/): "This is a second volume of two specially compiled, extended-length shows from Jon Naismith's production archive, featuring out-takes, ad libs and audience interaction from the Clue team. Taken from the early 1990s, these shows (edition dates t.b.c.) feature the classic Clue line up of Humphrey Lyttelton, Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Jeremy Hardy and the much-missed Willie Rushton. It may contain swearing."
* Amazon.co.uk has updated their description for the book, "The Doings of Hamish and Dougal: You'll Have Had Your Tea?", which is scheduled to be published on August 28th. The listing (at http://www.amazon.co.uk/Doings-Hamish-Dougal-Youll-Have/dp/1848090234/) now includes an image of the book's cover and this description:
"Hello there! You'll have had your tea? Dougal here. Well, here we go, with our wee book. It's a collection or pot pourri (I've no idea what Hamish means by that - it sounds like something to do with the Pope) of our activities or 'doings' in the village we call home, because that's exactly what it is. Together with our housekeeper, Mrs Naughtie, and of course, the Laird who lives up at the big hoose and shoots grouse and other bottles of whisky, these are the actual scripts of our wee show which we performed on the wireless, when most of you were probably in bed! Hamish and I have known each other all our lives - well, not yet, obviously! We have a very close relationship and also with each other. Mrs Naughtie been with us since we first met her at the Krankie Arms, where she was working as part-time barmaid and bouncer.In addition to the scripts you'll find all kinds of other things tucked away under its kilt. There's a hectic social life in the village. You'll visit the 'bide a wee' cafe, proud possessor of three Michelin tyres. You'll have a conducted tour of the big hoose by Big Tam, our local guide (not during opening hours).
You'll marvel at the site of the Battle of Auchtermuchty, now allotments. You'll peek into the Laird's social diary in 'oot and aboot' (40p at the post office). And a great deal more. Well, I hope this wee note will make you hurry to the till and spend the terrible amount of money these wee books cost these days. But then again this particular wee book is Scotland's answer to Richard and Judy! Hurrah! Away now."
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| BBC Radio 3 tribute to Humphrey Lyttelton this Saturday |
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The BBC Radio 3 show "Jazz Line-Up" will include a tribute to Humph on this Saturday's (May 3rd) show, which airs from 16:00 - 17:30. It can be heard online from the station's website and should be available after broadcast from http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/jazzlineup/
Here's the listing: "Claire Martin is joined by Alyn Shipton and Jack Massarick to pay tribute to Humphrey Lyttelton who died last week. We hear Humph talk about his heroes and his first encounter with the trumpet. Plus an exclusive session for the programme by the Teak Project."
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| Radio 4 to honour Humphrey Lyttelton with a tribute day on June 15th |
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At the end of Radio 4's April 30th tribute to Humphrey Lyttelton, it was announced that the ISIHAC teams will be paying their own tribute to Humph on Sunday, May 11th. The exact time is yet to be announced.
In addition, Radio 4 will honor Humph with a tribute day on Sunday, June 15th. The following news stories come from The Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/apr/30/bbc.radio1?gusrc=rss&feed=media) and Chortle (http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2008/04/30/6713/humphrey_lyttelton_day)
FROM THE GUARDIAN:
Radio 4 to honour Lyttelton with tribute day
Ben Dowell
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday April 30 2008
Radio 4 is to broadcast a Humphrey Lyttelton day in June to pay tribute to the presenter, who died on Friday aged 86.
The Radio 4 controller, Mark Damazer, has given the nod to a tribute programme to be broadcast on Sunday June 15 to mark the achievements of the veteran presenter of comedy panel show I'm Sorry I haven't a Clue.
This will be backed by a repeat of his Desert Island Discs episode and a repeat of his programme about jazz, The King of the Swingers.
In addition, his friend and fan Stephen Fry will present a specially commissioned profile of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue with extracts of the best programmes.
A Radio 4 spokeswoman confirmed the plans but declined to comment on the future of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, of which Lyttelton was chairman since its inception in 1972.
According to a Radio 4 source, however, the show is likely to continue. The source added that replacement presenter may be sought for Lyttelton but that this is unlikely to be filled by one of the current panel, which includes Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer.
Lyttelton, who celebrated 60 years as a bandleader in January, was admitted to hospital on April 16. He underwent surgery on Monday morning to repair an aortic aneurysm, but died following complications.
After his admission to Barnet general hospital in north London, the spring series of his show was cancelled, prompting a wave of goodwill messages from Radio 4 listeners.
As well as his jazz playing Lyttelton also had stints as a cartoonist, a restaurant critic for Vogue and a regular columnist on Punch.
But he became a household name for his broadcasting, most notably his deadpan performances as the innuendo-prone chairman of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, where he genially presided over games such as Mornington Crescent.
FROM CHORTLE:
Humphrey Lyttelton Day
R4 to broadcast tribute shows
Radio 4 is to dedicate a day of programming to Humphrey Lyttelton.
Shows will include a new tribute documentary, as well as repeats of both his Desert Island Discs episode and his programme about jazz, The King of the Swingers.
In addition, Stephen Fry will present a newly commissioned profile of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, with extracts of the best programmes.
The tributes will go out on June 15.
Meanwhile, speculation is rising about whether the 'antidote to panel games'
will continue following Lyttelton's death on Friday at the age of 86.
Although Humph's lugubrious presence and dry wit defined the show he hosted since 1972, insiders suggest the show is likely to find a new host.
Panellist Graeme Garden told the BBC's in-house paper Ariel: 'On a personal note, I do want the show to go on and the fans do, too. It can never be the same, bit I'd like to think it still had legs.'
But he said it would be a mistake to 'try to find a copy of Humph'.
Barry Cryer added: 'A few years ago, he jokingly said that if he went under a bus, there should be no misplaced loyalty and the show should go on.'
Rob Brydon stood in for Lyttelton on the last live date of the I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue tour.
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Posted by lisa at 30/04/2008 00:00 GMT |
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| BBC Radio 4 tributes to Humphrey Lyttelton |
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The classic episode of "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" which was repeated yesterday on BBC Radio 4 can be heard from Listen Again at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks/radio4/aod.shtml?radio4/cluespecial This is a 1995 episode from the Theatre Royal in Brighton with regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Willie Rushton and Tim-Brooke.
Thanks to Sosia for reporting in the club forums that BBC Radio 4's tribute to Humphrey Lyttelton will air this coming Wednesday morning at 9:00 a.m.
Also thanks to club member bushbaby for posting the following in the forums: "There's a special bit on Last Word on Radio 4- they added an extra bit on to today's repeat for Humph".
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Posted by lisa at 28/04/2008 00:30 GMT |
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| ISIHAC kazoo band might make it into Guinness World Records |
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According to an article in today's Times Online, a record setting kazoo band lead by Humphrey Lyttelton at the I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue date in London earlier this month might make it into the Guiness Book of World Records.
Humphrey Lyttelton delivers swansong with giant kazoo band
Maurice Chittenden
Humphrey Lyttelton, the jazz trumpeter who became doyen of the double entendre as chairman of the quiz show I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue, is to make a bid from beyond the grave to enter the record books as leader of the world’s biggest kazoo band.
Lyttelton, who died on Friday aged 86 after heart surgery, equipped every member of the 3,550-strong audience with a kazoo at a live version of the radio programme earlier this month at the Hammersmith Apollo in London and encouraged them to hum into the simple instrument.
The feat has been logged with Guinness World Records, which is likely to confirm the breaking of the previous official record set by 2,679 people in Rochester, New York, in 2006.
It will be a typical last achievement by a man who defied all logic to succeed in almost every career he put his hand to.
When once asked by an interviewer what was the secret of his success, Lyttelton leant back and said, only half-jokingly: “I’m sorry, I haven’t a clue.”
His radio programme, in which Lyttelton would make outrageous remarks about the erotic exploits of Samantha, the quiz’s fictitious scorer, was described yesterday by Mark Damazer, controller of Radio 4, as the “most successful” comedy show ever heard on the station.
It has run for 36 years and the BBC must now decide whether to relaunch it with a new chairman. The panel of Barry Cryer, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden yesterday ruled themselves out of daring to sit in Lyttelton’s chair.
Frontrunners for the role will include Rob Brydon, who hosted a live show in Bournemouth last week after Lyttelton had gone into hospital for an operation to repair a blocked artery; Jeremy Hardy, who frequently guested on the show to sing the words of one song set to the tune of another; and Paul Merton, who appears on television’s Have I Got News for You and Radio 4’s Just a Minute, the Clue’s closest rival in both longevity – it started in 1967 – and success.
Cryer said yesterday: “They are big shoes to fill. Humph was the very hub of the show and it revolved around him. Leading the kazoo band was typical of him.
“Long-running shows become like soaps with clearly defined characters and I don’t think it would work if a panellist became chairman. It would need somebody of stature to be parachuted in.
“Humph was the coolest man I knew. He was a polymath and an amazing man. He was a great ad-libber. A few years ago he suddenly stopped from reading some nonsense in the middle of a show and looked at the audience and said: ‘I’m 78 for chris-sake’. He got a huge laugh for that.”
Lyttelton did the last gig with his jazz band the night before he went into hospital. He even recorded a special message to introduce last Tuesday’s quiz show in Bournemouth: “Humphrey Lyttelton here. I can’t do the show tonight. I am in hospital. I wish I had thought of this earlier.”
Lyttelton was born in May, 1921, the son of an Eton house-master. He claimed he was descended from another Humphrey Lyttelton who was executed for collaborating in the gunpowder plot with Guy Fawkes.
His musical career started when at the age of 15 he slipped away from an Eton-Harrow cricket match at Lord’s to buy a trumpet.
When, as an acting captain in the Grenadier Guards, he stormed ashore during the allied invasion of Italy in 1943, he held a pistol in one hand and a bag containing his trumpet in the other.
Returning from the war, he became a successful cartoonist at the Daily Mail and a writer of books about music.
He was such an accomplished player of traditional New Orleans jazz that when he wrote his first autobiography at the age of 33 he called it I Play as I Please.
Two years later in 1956 he became the first British jazz musician to have a Top 20 hit single when Bad Penny Blues reached number 19 in the charts. Louis Armstrong, who was a friend, said he was Britain’s best trumpeter: “That cat in England who swings his ass off”.
Chris Barber, who was topping the bill at a jazz festival in Germany with his big band yesterday, said: “Unlike some people who talk about jazz eloquently, he played it right and with a great sense of dignity. He will be very much missed but much honoured in memory.”
Lyttelton had almost completed a new album and a new book before he died.
Kenneth Clarke, the former chancellor and an avid jazz fan, said yesterday: “He was a delightful, congenial and civilised man. He did a lot for British jazz. He wasn’t just trad. He was very much more sophisticated than that. He could swing. I always enjoyed listening to his band.”
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Posted by lisa at 27/04/2008 00:30 GMT |
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| vintage ISIHAC repeat on BBC Radio 4 Sunday, April 27th |
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As a tribute to Humph, BBC Radio 4 will be repeating a vintage episode of "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" on Sunday, April 27th at noon. The episode is from the Theatre Royal in Brighton, with Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Willie Rushton and Tim-Brooke Taylor. It can be heard online from www.bbc.co.uk/radio4
I've read that a tribute show is possibly being planned from this coming Wednesday, but don't know any details yet. Please pass along any information you may spot.
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Posted by lisa at 26/04/2008 00:00 GMT |
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| Humphrey Lyttelton 1921 - 2008 |
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We are extremely sad to report that Humphrey Lyttelton passed away earlier today. The following message appears on his official website, http://www.humphreylyttelton.com/:
Humphrey Lyttelton 1921 - 2008
Humph died peacefully with his family and friends around him on April 25th at 7.00pm following surgery.
We would like to thank everyone for their support and express our deep gratitude to the staff of Barnet General for the care that they gave Humph.
If you would like to leave a message or tribute on this site please click on Remember Humph
There will undoubtedly be many tributes to Humph in the coming days. One article, quoting fellow "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" cast mate Graeme Garden, can be found on The Telegraph's website Please visit the Main Forum, where we'll be posting links to other articles & tributes.
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Posted by lisa at 25/04/2008 01:00 GMT |
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| Humph update |
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The following is from Humph's official website (http://www.humphreylyttelton.com/)
Humph was admitted to Barnet Hospital on Wednesday 16th April and has undergone major surgery. He is currently in a stable condition.
We would like to thank everyone for their Get-Well Messages which kept him in sparkling form up until the op.
To send Humph a Get Well Message please click on http://www.humphreylyttelton.com/contact
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Posted by lisa at 23/04/2008 00:00 GMT |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Mailout 18.4.08 |
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The following message is from the official I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue mailing list:
Dear I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Mailing List Member,
I was expecting to announce the venues and dates of recordings in the Spring series of "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue", but unfortunately I've had to put these plans on hold as Humphrey Lyttelton has been detained in hospital for an operation to repair an aortic aneurysm.
We are unclear precisely how long Humph's recovery period will be, but it seems very likely that the Spring Series of "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" will have to be postponed.
Humph is otherwise fine and in very good spirits. However, if you wish to write him a get well message, send him an email to this address with the subject 'Get Well Humph' and I'll print it off for him. I imagine it'll be nice for him to have something to read in his hospital bed.
There's no need to worry if you have tickets for our "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" Tour Show at the Bournemouth Pavilion this Tuesday (22nd April). I'm delighted to say that ISIHAC favourite Rob Brydon has kindly agreed to deputise for Humph.
With best wishes,
Jon Naismith
Producer, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
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Posted by lisa at 18/04/2008 21:00 GMT |
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| email address for Humphrey Lyttelton get well messages |
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I've been told that get well wishes for Humphrey Lyttelton can be sent to isihac@btinternet.com; they will be forwarded on to him from there. Please use the subject line "Get Well Humph"
As mentioned yesterday, Humph is currently in the hospital for an operation to repair an aortic aneurysm. He is doing well, but has had to cancel various appearances for the next few months (including next week's ISIHAC show in Bournemouth and various jazz concerts).
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Humph's official website (http://www.humphreylyttelton.com/) now has the following message on its home page:
Welcome to Humphs website.
Humph is currently awaiting an operation on an aortic aneurysm and will be out of action for a little while. He is in good spirits and is enjoying the visits of family and friends.
To send Humph a message please click on Contact Humph
Almost all the Band dates are cancelled until further notice with the exception of the Bulls Head which will go ahead. I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue "Live tour 2008" will continue and a stand in will be announced shortly.
Updates of of Humphs progress will be found on this page from time to time. Meanwhile, we will be adding downloads to the site and some great new photos, amongst other things. And for those of you who are missing HL's " The Best of Jazz" radio show, watch this space!
"As we journey through life, discarding baggage along the way, we should keep an iron grip, to the very end, on the capacity for silliness. It preserves the soul from desiccation."
Chairman Humph in introspective mode
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Posted by lisa at 18/04/2008 01:00 GMT |
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| Humph unable to appear at Bournemouth ISIHAC show |
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Due to health reasons, Humphrey Lyttelton will be unable to appear at the final date in the current I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Official Stage Tour.
Here is information from the Pavilion Theatre's website (at
http://www.bic.co.uk/events/Event_Details.asp?event=4301):
We regret that the performance of "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" at the Bournemouth Pavilion this Tuesday (22nd April) will be taking place without the show's regular chairman Humphrey Lyttelton.
Regrettably, Humphrey Lyttelton has been detained in hospital for an operation to repair an aortic aneurysm. However, he is well and in good spirits.
We are delighted to confirm that another 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue'
favourite Rob Brydon, has kindly agreed to deputise at very short notice!
BBC Radio's multi award-winning antidote to panel games starts its first live tour in 35 years. Join Humphrey Lyttelton, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Jeremy Hardy and pianist Colin Sell for an unmissable evening of inspired nonsense.
"Whether the teams are singing the words of one song to the tune of another, making up serial rhymes or entering the mythic maze of Mornington Crescent, they have now become the National Theatre of fun"
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Posted by lisa at 17/04/2008 00:00 GMT |
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| article: "5 Things you might not know about ISIHAC" |
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The following article (which has a photo of the ISIHAC cast) appeared in The List:
5 Things you might not know about - I'm Sorry I Haven't Got A Clue
Source: The List (Issue 599)
Date: 27 March 2008
Written by: Brian Donaldson
1. Humphrey Lyttelton had a top 20 hit in the 1950s with ‘Bad Penny Blues’ and played on Radiohead’s ‘Life in a Glasshouse’. The Humph appeared on Desert Island Discs in 2006.
2. Tim Brooke-Taylor’s grandfather was a parson who played centre-forward for England in the 1890s. TB-T was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1981.
3. Big in Finland, Barry Cryer hit the top spot on their charts in 1958 with a version of ‘Purple People Eater’. Baz presented the early 1970s comedy game show Joker’s Wild in which panellists had to tell a joke based on topics picked at random.
4. Aberdeen-born Graeme Garden’s son John is keyboard player with the Scissor Sisters. GG was president of Cambridge Footlights in 1963, a role taken in 1962 by Tim Brooke-Taylor and in 1964 by Eric Idle.
5. Jeremy Hardy was booed by the Just a Minute audience in 2000 when reacting to the word ‘parasites’ with a skit about the Royal Family. Jezza hasn’t been invited back since.
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, Sun 30 Mar.
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Posted by lisa at 26/03/2008 00:00 GMT |
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| reminder: Frost Report special (with Tim) to air next Monday |
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The Frost Report special that was filmed last year (and should include a contribution from Tim) is scheduled to air next Monday on BBC 4. Here is a listing:
The Frost Report is Back!
Monday 24th March on BBC 4
from 21:00 to 23:00
"A celebration of the satirical comedy sketch series The Frost Report, which won the prestigious Golden Rose of Montreux in the 1960s. Hosted by Sir David Frost, it was highly influential and proved to be the launch pad for the likes of Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman and Sheila Steafel. Featuring rare archive skits, interviews with many of the old team and a complete showing of the award-winning show Frost Over England."
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Posted by lisa at 17/03/2008 00:00 GMT |
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| ISIHAC news: series 51 start date / stage tour almost sold out |
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The following information was sent to the "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" mailing list:
Dear I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Mailing List Member
The next series of ISIHAC is scheduled for broadcast on Radio 4 from Monday 16th June 2008 (1830 on BBC Radio 4) and we expect to be able to notify you of the three recording dates by the end of this month.
Meantime, the current I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Tour is all but sold out - we've just tickets to one date at the Hammersmith Apollo, which will be properly advertised from Tuesday next week. Please find details of the Hammersmith date below:
Thursday 3rd April - Hammersmith Apollo, London Show starts 7.30pm (finishes @ 10-10.15pm) Tickets £24.50. £21.50 and £18.50 Box office number is 08448 44 47 48 Box office is only open on shows days from 4pm Websites are:
www.hammersmithapollo.net
www.ticketmaster.co.uk
With best wishes
Jon Naismith
Producer, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
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Posted by lisa at 15/03/2008 00:00 GMT |
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| Congratulations to the ISIHAC team |
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Congratulations to the ISIHAC team who won the Outstanding Contribution to Comedy Award at the Chortle awards last night. A video of the event can be seen here - http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2008/02/26/6456/watch_last_nights_chortle_awards - with Tim and Barry appearing about 3/4 of the way through.
WARNING - the video contains swearing
There is also an article which says the following about the team:
"The biggest cheer of the night was reserved for the veteran team behind I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue.
Barry Cryer said: ‘Thank you very much indeed on behalf of Tim, myself, the great [Humphrey] Lyttelton, Jez Hardy, everyone whose ever been on the show with us.’
And Tim Brooke-Taylor, who added that the award was ‘in memory of the Willie Rushton’ joked: ‘When we walked in today it felt like No Country For Old Men.’"
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| Manchester Evening News article about ISIHAC tour |
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The Manchester Evening Post has a brief article about the I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue - Official Stage Tour.
The tour kicks back into gear tomorrow, with a show in Cambridge. While many of the upcoming show shows are sold out, a small number of tickets are still available for some of them. It might also be worth checking with the theatre box offices to see if returns are available - full details about the tour (including show dates, venues, & booking info, are available from the club's FAQ
From The Manchester Evening Post:
Need a clue to this hit show?
Adam Moss
22/ 2/2008
MULTI-AWARD winning Radio 4 show, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, is leaving London for the first time in April.
The regular line-up of Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Humphrey Lyttelton and Colin Sell, with guest Jeremy Hardy will travel with the touring show, which calls at Salford.
The show has dozens of websites devoted to it with some games running for months. It comes to The Lowry on Sunday April 6.
Tickets start at £22 and are available on 0870 787 5789 or at thelowry.com.
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Posted by lisa at 22/02/2008 23:00 GMT |
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| reminder: new series of "One" starts today (Thurs, Feb. 21) (+ other shows) |
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The new series of "One", which is slated to include contributions from Graeme, begins today (Thurs, Feb. 21) on BBC Radio 4 at 23:00. The show will be available from Listen Again after broadcast.
In the following list of upcoming shows (which you can see by using the "click here for more" link below) I've included "Bill Oddie's Wild Side" on Wednesdays. However, I don't actually see it in the listings for the next two weeks. Can someone in the UK please check the listings and see if they can find it? I believe there should be two more episodes in the series.
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Posted by lisa at 21/02/2008 00:00 GMT |
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| Official ISIHAC website |
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I don't think I've seen this mentioned on the site yet.
An official website for the I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue team has been set up at
http://www.isihac.net/
At present there's just a welcome message, along with options to join their mailing list and send a message. The site advises to "Watch this space" for future developments.
On a related note, a creative ISIHAC-related effort can be found at http://ablegents.com/. The author has changed the dialog in an old comic to make it about Mornington Crescent.
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Posted by lisa at 19/02/2008 00:00 GMT |
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| Frost Report special to air March 24th |
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Thanks to Michael Cahill for sending the following info to the goodies-l mailing list about the Frost Report special:
"According to the BBC's teletext service, the show will be a 2 hour special on Easter Monday, 24 March on BBC 4. The preview of the show mentions TBT as appearing, along with John Cleese, Ronnie Corbett and Michael Palin."
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Posted by lisa at 17/02/2008 00:00 GMT |
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| Frost Report special with Tim to be shown at Easter |
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**Edited by Wackywales to add: The programme will be broadcast on Easter Monday, 24 March.**
Today's Times Online has an article about the Frost Report special that was recorded a few months ago (with Tim in the cast). This was originally supposed to be a Christmas special but this article says it'll be shown "at Easter".
Here's the article (from
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_rad
io/article3376827.ece):
The Frost Report to return after 40 years
Adam Sherwin
The Frost Report, the satirical show that spawned comedy dynasties, will return for a special edition featuring surviving members of the original line-up.
John Cleese, Michael Palin, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Ronnie Corbett will join Sir David Frost for the The Frost Report Is Back, a BBC Four two-hour special, to be broadcast at Easter.
Launched in 1966, the successor to That Was The Week That Was, it lampooned Britain's still class-based society. Written by Antony Jay (later of Yes, Minister), the programme concentrated on a single topic each week, such as law or class.
The Frost Report united the Ronnies Corbett and Barker and gave Cleese his television debut. In the most famous sketch, the 6'5" Cleese illustrated the class divide by looking down upon the two Ronnies standing next to him.
It ran for two series, but The Frost Report graduates went on to form Monty Python's Flying Circus and The Goodies, and the programme influenced satirical comedy for decades.
Sir David said: "Putting The Frost Report Is Back together has been a joy, with so many memories - and even more important, so many laughs - along the way."
Musical satire on the show was provided by folk singer Julie Felix and Tom Lehrer. The sketches and monologues were written by such luminaries as Marty Feldman, Keith Waterhouse, Peter Tinniswood, Bill Oddie, Barry Cryer and Frank Muir.
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Posted by lisa at 14/02/2008 03:00 GMT |
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| ISIHAC tour tickets still available for some shows |
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The 2008 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Official Stage Tour starts on January 21st! Tickets are still available for some dates, although several dates are on the verge of selling out (so if you've been waiting to book don't wait much longer!)
Please note that in addition to the previously announced dates Salford is selling tickets to a 3pm show on Sunday, April 6th. The show will also be visiting Wolverhampton, Basingstoke, Cambridge, Buxton, Cardiff, Plymouth, Eastbourne, Edinburgh, London, Harrogate, and Bournemouth.
Complete details, includes dates, venues, and booking information, can be found in the club FAQ
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Posted by lisa at 11/01/2008 00:00 GMT |
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| The Financial Times mentions "Humph in Wonderland" |
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In the FT's radio column from December 24, 2007 they mention the "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" special "Humph in Wonderland", which will air on BBC Radio 4 on Christmas day.
Here's the excerpt:
RADIO - MARTIN HOYLE
Published: December 24 2007 02:00 |
Ahhs all round for Cinderella's Ponies , panto's inveterate Shetland scene-stealers (11.00am). *** Talking of which, although the BBC has abandoned its home-grown panto with serious broadcasters riotously relaxing, Humph in Wonderland (12.04pm) raises smiles. When the I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue lot avoid the traps of silliness, smut and Jeremy Hardy's knee-jerk politicising they are very funny, especially Sandi Toksvig's Queen of Hearts and Tim Brooke- Taylor's Duchess. And for that most famous smile in literature, who better as the Cheshire Cat than hatchet-faced Jack Dee?
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Posted by lisa at 23/12/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| Holiday Radio Treats from Tim, Graeme, & Bill |
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Among the various holiday offerings on BBC Radio 4 and BBC 7 over the holiday season are these shows which include contributions from our favorite trio. All can be heard online during the broadcast and will be available for a week afterwards from BBC Radio's Listen Again.
* Monday 24 December, Christmas Eve
BBC 7 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7)
I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again
The Wonder Show Christmas Edition: A festive show from 1969 including Scrooge in A Christmas Carrot. Starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie. [12.30pm and 7.30pm].
* Monday 24 December, Christmas Eve
BBC Radio 4 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4)
The Best of I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue, 6.30-7.00pm, repeated Sunday 12.00-12.30pm Chairman Humphrey Lyttelton introduces the “least worst” bits from recent series of the perennial antidote to panel games. With Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor, Stephen Fry, Jeremy Hardy, Rob Brydon, Jack Dee and Andy Hamilton.
With Colin Sell at the piano and Samantha scoring.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/clue.shtml
* Tuesday 25 December, Christmas Day
BBC Radio 4 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4)
Humph in Wonderland, 12.00 noon – 12.30pm The I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue team present their own, slightly adapted, version of Lewis Carroll’s much-loved children’s classic. With Humphrey Lyttelton, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Jeremy Hardy, Sandi Toksvig, Andy Hamilton, Rob Brydon and Jack Dee.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/pip/3bysi/
* Monday 31 December, New Years Eve
BBC 7 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7)
Hamish and Dougal: Hogmanay Special
A special New Year edition of the programme featuring Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden, playing two pawky Scots who occasionally pop up on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. In this episode they are joined by fellow Scot James Naughtie. (The show also features guest appearances from Tim Brooke-Taylor, Humphrey Lyttelton, Sandi Toksvig, & Colin Sell.)
New Years Eve at 10.30pm and 3.30am
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Posted by lisa at 22/12/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| Goodies DVDs on sale |
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Many UK vendors have Goodies DVDs on sale for under £8.00 each. These include www.Amazon.co.uk, www.sendit.com, and www.play.com.
Fans from Australia and New Zealand may be particularly interested in "The Goodies - The Complete LWT Series", since this set isn't yet available there. The UK set is encoded for both Region 2 and Region 4 (making it compatible for players in Australia & NZ).
Several low priced copies of the "Funky Gibbon - The Best of The Goodies" CD are available through Amazon.co.uk sellers. The CD includes the songs "Father Christmas Do Not Touch Me" and "Make a Daft Noise for Christmas"
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Posted by lisa at 18/12/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| Graeme in Jeremy Hardy repeat / Humph hosts Radio 4 show |
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* Graeme will appear in BBC 7's repeat of "When Jeremy Hardy Spoke to the Nation" next Tuesday, December 18th, at 23:00.
* For the Clue fans - Humph will be hosting a two part series called "When Hollywood Went to War"; the first part airs tomorrow (Thurs, Dec 13th) at 11.30am. Here's a description from http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_rad
io/article3040350.ece:
When Hollywood Went to War, Radio 4, 11.30am
"Humphrey Lyttelton, who first came to global attention in a war context, playing the trumpet at the gates of Buckingham Palace on VE Day, begins a two-part series about the Hollywood stars who took a break from their pampered lifestyle to do their bit from 1939 to 1945 (or, more to the point, 1941-45). What's surprising is how A-list many of them were - Jimmy Stewart (who stayed in the Air Force Reserve long after the war and even flew over Vietnam as an observer in a Superfortress), Clark Gable, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Henry Fonda. It's a bit like Tom Cruise volunteering to be a Top Gun for real."
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Posted by lisa at 11/12/2007 23:30 GMT |
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| tickets for Cardiff ISIHAC show on sale |
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Tickets for the March 14th "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Official Stage Tour"
show in Wales are on sale from http://www.wmc.org.uk/index.cfm?alias=isihac
The Ticket & Information office phone is 08700 40 2000
The 2008 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Official Stage Tour will visit 12 cities - Wolverhampton, Basingstoke, Cambridge, Buxton, Cardiff, Plymouth, Eastbourne, Edinburgh, London, Salford, Harrogate, and Bournemouth. Of the 12 dates, the only one not yet on sale is Plymouth. Basingstoke has already sold out. Please note that tickets for the shows tend to sell quickly!
The complete details about show dates, venues, and booking details can be found in the club's FAQ.
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Posted by lisa at 07/12/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| Bill's "Comedy Controller" repeated on BBC 7 tomorrow (Dec 7th) |
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Bill's edition of BBC 7's "Comedy Controller" will be repeated tomorrow. The show can be heard online from www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7 and will be available for a week after broadcast from Listen Again.
Here is a description of the show from BBC 7's Newsletter:
Comedy Controller: Bill Oddie
"Professor" Bill Oddie delivers his thesis on The Development of Radio Comedy in the 20th Century with a little help from 'Up The Pole' (1st broadcast 01/11/1948), 'ITMA' (06/01/1949), 'Archie's The Boy' (11/11/1954), 'Beyond Our Ken' (27/05/1960), 'On The Hour' (14/05/1992) and 'On The Town with the League of Gentlemen' (27/11/1997). Join Bill for an entertaining 3 hours. Questions will be asked afterwards, so do pay attention...!
Saturday at 9am, 8pm and 3am
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/comedy/index.shtml?Today
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Posted by lisa at 07/12/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| reminder: most dates in the 2008 ISIHAC Stage Tour now on sale |
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Just a reminder that most dates in the 2008 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Official Stage Tour are now on sale. The tour will visit 12 cities - Wolverhampton, Basingstoke, Cambridge, Buxton, Cardiff, Plymouth, Eastbourne, Edinburgh, London, Salford, Harrogate, and Bournemouth.
Of the 12 dates, all have gone on sale except Cardiff and Plymouth - we're still watching for those on sale dates. Basingstoke has already sold out. Please note that tickets for the shows tend to sell quickly!
The complete details about show dates, venues, and booking details can be found in the club's FAQ.
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Posted by lisa at 01/12/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| tickets for Slapstick 2008 Festival with Tim & Graeme go on sale Dec 5th |
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The following comes from the St Georges Bristol's website; this is the venue for Tim & Graeme's session at the Slapstick 2008 Festival on January 19th (http://www.stgeorgesbristol.co.uk/event.php?pid=319). The page says that tickets for the general public will go on sale on December 5th:
Saturday 19 January 8pm
Bristol Silents presents
Buster Keaton, classic comedy shorts to live music
Preview: Tickets not yet on sale.
Patrons' / Benefactors' Priority Booking opens
Wednesday 28 November
Gala Friends' Priority Booking opens Friday 30 November
Friends' Priority Booking opens Monday 3 December
General Booking opens Wednesday 5 December
To benefit from priority booking for this event click here for details of the Friends of St George's.
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TIM BROOKE-TAYLOR and GRAEME GARDEN
PRIMA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB
Slapstick 2008 presents a delightful evening of entertainment discovering the genius of Buster Keaton alongside two of Britain's best-loved entertainers. Former 'Goodies' and current I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue panellists Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden choose their favourite Keaton short films, revealing the works that have influenced their lives and which, they hope, will delight new audiences.
With live musical accompaniment by the Prima Vista Social Club featuring Neil Brand and international friends.
Brand: '... the Doyen of silent film accompanists.' BBC RADIO 4
Brand: 'His playing is amazingly vivid and dynamic and bracingly free of cliché.' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
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Buster Keaton is considered one of the greatest comic actors of all time. His influence on physical comedy is rivaled only by Charlie Chaplin. Like many of the great actors of the silent era, Keaton's work was cast into near obscurity for many years. Only toward the end of his life was there a renewed interest in his films. An acrobatically skillful and psychologically insightful actor, Keaton made dozens of short films and fourteen major silent features, attesting to one of the most talented and innovative artists of his time.
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Bristol Silents was formed in August 2000 to promote and celebrate silent cinema and has gone from strength to strength with national tours of silent programmes and the hugely successful Slapstick Silent Comedy Festival establishing an international reputation for live silent film events.
'Bristol Silents has done a great thing for silent films. People as a whole have forgotten how wonderful they could be – how wonderful they still are.' PAUL MERTON
'Bristol Silents is an inspired idea. It is the first time anyone has linked their community to the lost art of silent films ...'
KEVIN BROWNLOW
£12(£10)
Group discounts available
Promoted by Bristol Silents
Supported by Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Arts & Business, Watershed
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Posted by lisa at 01/12/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| Humph in Wonderland info (including cast list) |
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Here's some additional information about the I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue special "Humph In Wonderland", which will be broadcast on Christmas Day (Tues, 25 Dec.) from noon (well, technically 12:04pm) to 1:00pm on BBC Radio 4.
"The I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue team present their own, slightly adapted version of Lewis Carroll's much-loved children's classic. The cast includes Humphrey Lyttelton, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Jeremy Hardy, Sandi Toksvig, Andy Hamilton, Rob Brydon and Jack Dee. "
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Posted by lisa at 29/11/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| more info about Tim & Graeme's appearance at the Slapstick 2008 Festival |
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Tim & Graeme are scheduled to appear at the Slapstick 2008 Festival in Bristol on January 19th. Here is some info about the session:
Bristol Silents presents: Buster Keaton
Classic comedy shorts to live music
Slapstick 2008 presents a delightful evening of entertainment discovering the genius of Buster Keaton alongside two of Britain's best-loved entertainers. Former 'Goodies' and current I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue panellists Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden choose their favourite Keaton short films, revealing the works that have influenced their lives and which, they hope, will delight new audiences.
With live musical accompaniment by the Prima Vista Social Club featuring Neil Brand and international friends.
Location
St George's Bristol, West End
DatesDate 19/01/2008
Saturday 20:00 - 22:00
Tickets Information:
Adult £12.00 per ticket
Concession £10.00 per ticket
The show doesn't appear to be on sale yet.
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Posted by lisa at 29/11/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| Tim & Graeme may appears at Slapstick 2008 festival |
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This is unconfirmed at the moment, but I've heard Tim & Graeme may be appearing at the Slapstick 2008 Festival in Bristol on the evening of January 19th at a session called "Bristol Silents Presents: Classic Comedy Shorts To Live Music, Buster Keaton". I am checking into this and will let you know when I have more info.
For now, the festival's official website is at: http://www.bristolsilents.org.uk/index.php The following is the info available on that page so far about the festival (BTW, I heard last year's event was really great):
"Dates are now confirmed for Bristol's fourth silent comedy festival! Hosted by Paul Merton, 2008's programme will include events at Bristol's Colston Hall, St Georges, Arnolfini and of course Watershed.
The programme will run from Thursday 17th January until Sunday 20th and confirmed guests returning include Neil Innes.
Highlights include a screening of Chaplin's masterpiece THE GOLD RUSH at Colston Hall on Friday 18th January 7.30pm with a newly adapted score performed by a thirteen piece ensemble."
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Posted by lisa at 27/11/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| updated on sale info for 2008 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Official Stage Tour |
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I've just updated the FAQ for the tour to include additional URLs that might be helpful as well as additinal on sale info.
Here's the on sale info I've found so far. Additions & updates are welcome!
Jan 21st - Wolverhampton Grand Theater - tickets go on sale Fri, Nov 30th
Jan 23rd - Basingstocke Anvil - Sold Out. The theatre is accepting names for a waiting list for returns.
Feb 23th - Cambridge Corn Exchange - On Sale Now
March 10th - Buxton Opera House - On Sale Now
March 14th - Cardiff's Wales Millennium Centre - waiting for info
March 16th - Plymouth Theatre Royal - waiting for info
March 27th - Eastbourne Congress Theatre - On Sale Now
March 30th - Edinburgh Festival Theatre - tickets go on sale Fri, Nov 30th
April 3rd - London's Hammersmith Apollo - On Sale Now
April 6th - Salford, The Lowry - On Sale Now
April 12th - Harrogate International Centre - On Sale Now
April 22nd - Bournemouth Pavilion Theatre - On Sale Now
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Posted by lisa at 24/11/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Tour Dates 2008 (OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT) |
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The following is the official announcement of the 2008 ISIHAC tour dates.
Dear I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Mailing list member,
After the unprecedented success of the touring show the ISIHAC team launched in the Autumn (all shows sold out, great reviews etc), we have now booked in some new dates for 2008, with the intention of visiting many parts of the UK we missed in the Autumn dates.
The new dates include visits to Wales and Scotland, and a night at the Hammersmith Apollo in London, which will be the largest venue the show has played to date.
The show is called 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue - The Official Stage Tour' and is a sort of 'Best of' show', featuring many highlights from the programme's 35 year history.
Below are the dates and box office details...
Monday 21st January - The Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton
Show starts 7.30pm (finishes @ 10-10.15pm)
Tickets £23.50 and £21.00
Book via the box office on: 01902 42 92 12.
The Box Office is open from 10am to 8pm, Monday to Saturday and one hour prior to Sunday performances.
Book online at https://kiosk4.ts.com/k?wolverhamptongrand
Or in person at The Grand Theatre Wolverhampton, Lichfield Street, Wolverhampton WV1 1DE
Wednesday 23rd January - The Anvil, Basingstoke
Show starts 7.30pm (finishes @ 10-10.15pm)
Tickets £23.50 and £21.00 Box office phone number: 01256 844244
Website: www.anvilarts.org.uk
The box office is open from 10.00 am to 6.00 pm on Monday to Saturday - and later on performance nights. On Sundays the box office opens one hour before performance times.
Sunday 24th February - Cambridge Corn Exchange
Show starts 7.30pm (finishes @ 10-10.15pm)
Tickets £23.50, £21.00 and £15 Box office phone number: 01223 357851
Website: www.cornex.co.uk
Opening times: Monday - Saturday: 10am-6pm (or 10 am - 30 minutes after the start of a show on performance days), Sunday (performance days only): 6pm, or one hour before the first peformance, until 30 minutes after the start of a show.
Monday 10th March - Buxton Opera House
Show starts 7.30pm (finishes @ 10-10.15pm) Tickets £25.00 and £23.00 Box Office number is 0845 127 2190.
Online bookings are at www.buxtonoperahouse.org.uk
Box Office hours are 10am to 8pm Mon to Sat, and 4pm to 8pm if there is an evening performance.
Friday 14th March - Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
Show starts 7.30pm (finishes @ 10-10.15pm)
Tickets £24.00, £20.00 and £10.00 Ticket Office: 08700 40 2000
Website: www.wmc.org.uk
Ticket Office Opening Times:
Performance Day:
Counter - Mon - Fri: 10am - Close, Sat & Sun: 11am - Close; Phones - Mon - Fri: 10am - 7pm, Sat: 11am - 7pm, Sun: 4 Hours before performance time.
No Performance Day:
Counter - Mon - Fri: 10am - 6pm, Sat & Sun: 11am - 5pm; Phones - Mon - Fri: 10am - 6pm, Sat: 11am - 5pm, Sun: Closed Tickets will go on sale on Thursday 6th December.
Sunday 16th March - Theatre Royal, Plymouth
Show starts 7.30pm (finishes @ 10-10.15pm) Tickets £24.50, £21.50, £20.50, £18.50, £16.00 Phone booking 01752 267222 Mon - Sat 10 a.m - 8 p.m
Online booking www.theatreroyal.com - open 24/7
Booking in person Mon - Sat 10 a.m - 8 a.m at Box office in ground floor foyer
Thursday 27th March - Eastbourne Congress Theatre
Show starts 7.30pm (finishes @ 10-10.15pm)
Tickets £23.50 and £21.50 Box Office 01323 412000
Online www.eastbournetheatres.co.uk
Opening hours 10am - 8pm
Sunday 30th March - Edinburgh Festival Theatre
Show starts 7.30pm (finishes @ 10-10.15pm)
Tickets £25.00, £22.50, £20.00, £17.50 and £15.00
Call the box office on 0131 529 6000 to make your booking. Telesales lines are open Monday to Saturday 11am-8pm (6pm non-performance nights)
Book online at www.eft.co.uk/entawebmain/SHOWLISTALPHA.ASPX
Book in Person at Edinburgh Festival Theatre, 13/29 Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9FT. The Box Office for the Festival Theatre is located in the foyer to the right of the entrance and is open Monday to Saturday 10am-8pm (6pm on non-performance nights) and from 4pm to curtain-up on performance Sundays.
Tickets go on sale on Friday 30th November
Thursday 3rd April - Hammersmith Apollo, London
Show starts 7.30pm (finishes @ 10-10.15pm)
Tickets £24.50. £21.50 and £18.50
Box office number is 08448 44 47 48 Box office is only open on shows days from 4pm
Websites are: www.hammersmithapollo.net, www.ticketmaster.co.uk
Sunday 6th April - The Lowry, Salford
Show starts 7.30pm (finishes @ 10-10.15pm)
Tickets £25.00 and £22.00
To book contact Box Office on 0870 787 5789
Or book online at www.thelowry.com
Satunrday 12th April - Harrogate International Centre
Show starts 7.30pm (finishes @ 10-10.15pm)
Tickets £24.50, £21.50 and £18.50
Call the Box Office direct on 0845 130 8840, Monday to Saturday 9.30am - 5.30pm.
Book Online via Ticket Web. www.ticketweb.co.uk
In Person: The Box Office is open 9.30am - 5.30pm Monday to Saturday.
Tuesday 22nd April - Pavilion Theatre, Bournemouth
Show starts 7.30pm (finishes @ 10-10.15pm)
Tickets £24.40, £21.50 and £18.50
To buy on the phone call the Ticket Office on 0870 111 3000 between 9.00am and 8.30pm Monday to Saturday and 9.00am and 5.30pm (8.30pm if there is a show) on Sundays.
To buy online at www.bic.co.uk/events
To buy over the counter visit the Bournemouth International Centre or Pavilion Theatre Ticket Office between 10.00am and 5.30pm Monday to Sunday. On show nights the Ticket Office is open until 30 minutes after the performance starts.
And that's about the size of it. To the best of our knowledge, this mailout is only sent to individuals who have requested the information we are sending. If you have been sent this email in error, or no longer wish to remain on this mailing list, please reply to the email and ask to be unsubscribed from the mailing list.
With best wishes
Jon Naismith
Producer, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
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Posted by lisa at 21/11/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| upcoming shows, including new Clue and a repeat of Graeme on "QI" |
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Among this week's highlights:
* the 50th series of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue begins on BBC Radio 4 Monday
* BBC 7 begins repeats of I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again
* Graeme's appearance on QI is repeated by UKTV Channel Dave on Monday night
* the second week of Autumnwatch with Bill
Use the "click here for more" link below to see details about these and other shows.
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Posted by lisa at 11/11/2007 13:00 GMT |
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| coming Monday (12 Nov): new ISIHAC, plus ISIRTA repeats on BBC 7 |
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Just a reminder about some prevoiusly announced news.
* New Series of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue:
A new series of ISIHAC (with Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer, & Humphrey Lyttelton) begins on BBC Radio 4 on Monday, 12 November. Each episode will initially air on Monday at 6.30pm; it will be repeated at noon the following Sunday.
Each broadcast can be heard worldwide via the internet from http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4. Each episode will also be available from the BBC's audio on demand service, Listen Again, for a week after the initial broadcast.
*I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again Repeats Return to BBC 7:
ISIRTA, the 1960's-early 1970's radio show featuring Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, John Cleese, David Hatch & Jo Kendall returns to BBC 7 on Monday, 12 November. Each episode will be aired at 12:30pm and then again at 7:30pm; they can be heard worldwide via the internet from http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7. They will then be available for six days after broadcast from Listen Again.
Here's an excerpt from BBC 7's November 9th Newsletter about the repeats
I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again
We are having a break from I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, and bringing you a run of one of our most requested classic comedies starting next week. Here is your opportunity to listen to the pilot episode of the long-running series, I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again, featuring the Goodies’ Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie, plus of course the inimitable John Cleese. The roots of the show are in undergraduate revues, with this pilot recorded at the Cambridge Circus, in the West End. Described by Barry Took as 'A kaleidoscope of funny voices, catch phrase and innuendo', I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again pre-dates I'm Sorry I Haven’t A Clue and was an excellent showcase for new comic talent of that time.
Monday at 12:30pm and 7:30pm
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Posted by lisa at 11/11/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| this week's BBC7 Comedy Controller includes ISIRTA & ISIHAC repeats |
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Jeremy Hardy is the host for this week's episode of BBC 7's "Comedy Controller". His selections include repeats of "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again" and "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue".
The show is already available from Listen Again at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks/bbc7/aod.shtml?bbc7/comedycontroller. The repeats (see times below) can be heard from BBC 7's website
From this week's BBC7 Newsletter:
The Selection
Comedy Controller - Jeremy Hardy
Comedian Jeremy Hardy presents His Hilarious Half-Dozen: Round The Horne (first broadcast 11/04/1965), Linda Smith's A Brief History Of Timewasting (26/07/2001), I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again (23/12/1973), Hancock's Half Hour - Sunday Afternoon At Home (22/04/1958), Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive (18/05/2005), I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (21/06/1999).
Saturday at 9am, 8pm and 3am
Classic Comedy
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
Jeremy Hardy also makes an appearance in next week's edition of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. He joins regulars Humphrey Lyttelton, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor in a programme recored in Southport, first heard in November 2006. Do listen out for Jeremy's musical talents!
Monday at 12.30pm and 7.30pm
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Posted by lisa at 27/10/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| some Barry Cryer tour dates |
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Since many of our members are fans of Barry Cryer (who appears with Tim & Graeme in shows such as "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" and "Hamish & Dougal") I thought I'd pass along a couple of his upcoming solo tour dates. Please note that this is not a comprehensive list. If anyone has a good link please feel free to pass it along.
* Sat 24 Nov Still Alive: Barry Cryer
Stantonbury Campus Theatre, Milton Keynes
* Sat 12 Jan Still Alive: Barry Cryer
Huntingdon Hall, Worcester
* Sat 16 Feb Barry Cryer, Colin Searles
The Quay Theatre, Sudbury
* Friday 21 Dec Barry Cryer
Abergavenny Borough Theatre
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Posted by lisa at 26/10/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| another repeat of "Bill Oddie Goes Wild" (and other shows) |
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Some shows of interest coming up in the near future. "(NEW)"
indicates shows added since the last update (some of which may be repeats).
Feel free to let us know about anything that should be added to the list - contributions are always welcome!
(UPDATED) * still available on Listen Again - "Radio Heads: David Hatch" was repeated on BBC 7 this past Saturday. The show will be available through the end of the week from Listen Again at http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/saturday/rams/0900.ram
(UPDATED) * Thurs, 25 Oct - "Comedy Connections" on UKTV Gold at 2:00 is a repeat of the episode about The Goodies. The episode is repeated an hour later on UKTV Gold Plus 1. Both stations repeat the show again on Weds, 31 Oct (UKTV Gold at 2:30 and UKTV Gold Plus 1 an hour later) and then again on Sat, 3 Nov.
* Thursday, 1 Nov - "Jacques Tati: Everyman Magnified" on BBC Radio 4 at 11:30 to 12:00 is a documentary including contributions from Tim. Here's a listing: "Rory Bremner explores the pioneering satire of Tati's Monsieur Hulot films. Contributors include Eric Sykes, Rowan Atkinson, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Agnes Catherine Poirier."
(UPDATED) * Thurs, 1 Nov & Fri, 2 Nov - "The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs", presented by Bill, is being repeated on UKTV Documentary and UKTV Documentary Plus 1 at various times; please consult your local listings.
(NEW) * Fri, 2 Nov; Sat, 3 Nov; Mon, 5 Nov; Tues, 6 Nov - "Bill Oddie Goes Wild" is repeated at various times on UKTV Gardens; please consult your local listings.
* Mon, 5 Nov - "Autumnwatch" with Bill Oddie returns for a two-week run.
* Mondays starting 12 Nov - "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again" will get a repeat run on BBC7 at 12.30pm and 7.30pm (available afterward from Listen Again). I have been told that they are planning to broadcast series 2.
* Mondays starting 12 Nov - "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" will be returning for a new series (it's 50th!) on BBC Radio 4.
Use the "click here for more" link to see additional titles.
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Posted by lisa at 24/10/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| Win TLC on DVD |
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The UK comedy site Chortle is giving away 10 copies of the forthcoming "TLC" DVD; Tim Brooke-Taylor was a member of the cast of this 2002 comedy.
The contest is at http://www.chortle.co.uk/about/2007/10/21/5937/win_tlc_on_dvd Here's the blurb from that page:
Hospital sitcom tlc – described as ‘Cardiac Arrest meets Srubs’ – is out on DVD next week, and we have ten copies to give away.
The surreal show features Alexander Armstrong, Richard Griffiths, Reece Shearsmith and Tim Brooke-Taylor and originally ran on BBC Two in 2002.
Dr Flynn (Shearsmith) is a naive young surgeon starting out at the South Middlesex NHS hospital where he is taken under the wing of the laid back and cocksure Dr Noble (Armstrong), to deal with bizarre patients, idiotic staff and the reckless medical team.
The series is being released on Metrodome on Monday, priced £15.99 for a three-hour disc.
But to stand a chance of winning one of our copies, just answer the following question by November 5, when the winners will be drawn from all correct answers received. Good luck!
Which comedy team is Reece Shearsmith a member of?
One of the choices is "The Goodies" - not correct, of course, but nice to see. 
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Posted by lisa at 21/10/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| Jeremy Hardy tour dates |
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Since a lot of club members are fans of Jeremy Hardy (who has worked with Tim & Graeme on "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" and "If I Ruled The World") I wanted to pass along this link to a list of his upcoming tour dates for October-December. This includes the Linda Smith's tribute/charity fundraiser on October 28th.
While I haven't seen Jeremy's stand-up act, my understanding is that it is similiar to the material from his popular BBC Radio 4 series "Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation" (though, unfortunately, there's no singing ).
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Posted by lisa at 20/10/2007 22:00 GMT |
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| news series of ISIHAC starts Monday, November 12th |
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As we'd previously announced, the new series of "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" will indeed start on BBC Radio 4 on Monday, 12 November.
The following contains information about the guests for the series (so if you'd rather be surprised stop reading here).
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The 50th series of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue kicks off on Monday, 12 November at the Fairfield Halls in Croydon, where chairman Humphrey Lyttelton and regulars Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden are joined by Rob Brydon.
After Croydon the team travels to Manchester for a recording at the Manchester Opera House with special guest Jeremy Hardy. The series finishes at the Broadway Theatre in Peterborough, where the guest is Andy Hamilton.
[Note that there should be a second guest for the Peterborough show, since Tim will not be available for that date. We'll pass along info about the second guest when it becomes available.]
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Posted by lisa at 19/10/2007 02:00 GMT |
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| David Hatch's "Radio Heads" to be repeated on BBC7 20 Oct |
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From BBC7's newsletter:
Radio Heads: David Hatch
Following the sad death of the BBC's former Head of Network Radio, BBC 7 pays tribute to Sir David Hatch, with another chance to hear his choice of six programmes from his time as Head of Radio Light Entertainment: Just a Minute (18/04/81), Next Programme Follows Almost Immediately (09/07/71), The Burkiss Way (02/04/79), Doctor in the House (06/08/68), Brothers in Law (13/07/71) & What Ho! Jeeves - Stiff Upper Lip: The Menace of Totleigh Towers (03/12/1980).
Saturday at 9am, 8pm and 3am
The show can be heard worldwide via the internet from bbc.co.uk/bbc7. It will be available for a week after the broadcast from Listen Again, probably from this link http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/saturday/rams/0900.ram (starting an hour or so after the first broadcast).
[thanks to the club member who posted a reminder about the show in the forums - I couldn't find your message to give you credit at the moment]
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Posted by lisa at 19/10/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| Frost Report Christmas special ticket request info |
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As we mentioned a few days ago, Tim Brooke-Taylor is slated to take part in a special Christmas recording of "The Frost Report". Thanks to Alison for posting on the goodies-l mailing list that tickets to the recording, which will be held on on Tuesday, 6 November, can be requested from http://www.sroaudiences.com/ - bookings are not yet open, but you can join the mailing list to be notified when they do become available.
Here is a description of the show from that website:
THE FROST REPORT IS BACK!
The Frost Report Is Back! is a celebration of 'The Frost Report', an evening hosted by Sir David Frost with interviews and contributions from the star performers and writers of the show, including John Cleese, Ronnie Corbett, Julie Felix, Sheila Steafel, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Dick Vosburgh, Barry Cryer, Tony Jay, Neil Shand and Eric Idle.
Now seen as one of the most important series in the development of British TV comedy, The Frost Report left no established convention un-satirised. It sowed the seeds for successive comedy shows for the next two decades as its writers and performers (John Cleese, Michael Palin, Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett) went on to become, somewhat paradoxically (and perhaps in a way that was worthy of one of their own sketches), the comedy establishment themselves.
The show was able to boast some of the country's top comedy writers and performers (Anthony Jay, Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall, Denis Nordern) both in front of and behind the camera and it gave rise to some of the entertainment world's ascending talents. Writers like John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Eric Idle would soon move in front of the camera to develop and star in series such as At Last The 1948 Show, Do Not Adjust Your Set and Monty Python's Flying Circus. Marty Feldman soon become a star in his own right with The Marty Feldman Show and two of the show's leading performers, Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett formed the foundation of a long standing partnership - The Two Ronnies.
The evening will also feature new material as well as a tribute to the late Ronnie Barker.
The show will be recorded for transmission on BBC4 later this year.
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Posted by lisa at 19/10/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| Jacques Tati documentary with Tim (and other shows) |
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A complete list of upcoming shows of interest to Goodies fans can be found by using the "click here for more" link below.
One new addition this week is this:
(NEW) * Thursday, 1 Nov - "Jacques Tati: Everyman Magnified" on BBC Radio 4 at 11:30 to 12:00 (30 minutes long) is a documentary including contributions from Tim. Here's a listing: "Rory Bremner explores the pioneering satire of Tati's Monsieur Hulot films. Contributors include Eric Sykes, Rowan Atkinson, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Agnes Catherine Poirier."
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Posted by lisa at 19/10/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| Tim & Frost, together again |
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According to a column in the October 16th issue of The Daily Mail, Tim Brooke-Taylor will be appearing in a special Christmas edition of The Frost Report.
Here's the article:
Frost needs a new Ronnie
Sir David Frost is looking for someone to replace the late Ronnie Barker to recreate the classic Sixties sketch where toff John Cleese looks down on middle-class Barker, who in turn looks down on working-class Ronnie Corbett.
Both Cleese and Corbett have been lined up for a special Christmas edition of The Frost Report, where the sketch originally aired, to mark the 40th anniversary of the show winning the Golden Rose of Montreux.
Frost tells me: "We are rounding up all the old gang including Corbett, Cleese, Michael Palin and Tim Brooke-Taylor. But some of the original team, like Marty Feldman and Peter Cook, are no longer with us."
It is perhaps just as well Cook will be absent. He famously described his one regret in life as saving Frost from drowning.
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Posted by lisa at 17/10/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| Jeremy Hardy/ISIHAC mention in The Independent |
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The following is the beginning of an article that appeared in The Independent on Sunday newpaper on October 7, 2007.
Life begins at 40 for ruby-cheeked Radio 4
by Nicholas Lezard
Last Sunday Radio 4 celebrated its 40th anniversary (as did the other three main BBC radio stations, for that was when the Home Service, the Light Programme and the Third Programme were renamed to accommodate the upstart, Radio 1). Cue various exercises in nostalgia and celebratory navel-gazing - and why not? Of course, one wouldn't want it to go on too long, and perhaps last Sunday's 4 at 40, followed by Radio 4: This is Your Life, adding up to two and a half hours, did, if forgivably, stretch it a little bit.
The best part of the former programme was a five-minute speech by Jeremy Hardy. Let those who doubt that the station leans leftwards take account of the way this man is one of its mainstays. And yet, as he points out, for all the stand-up shows he does, the biggest cheer he ever gets is when Humphrey Lyttelton announces that he is going to Sing One Song to the Tune of Another. (He didn't mention he has improved his singing from unbearable to merely execrable, thus spoiling the fun for the rest of us.)
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Posted by lisa at 08/10/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| "Gagging For It" and other shows of interest |
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Here's a list of upcoming shows of interest to Goodies fans. "(NEW)" indicates shows added since the last update (some of which may be repeats). Feel free to let us know about anything that should be added to the list contributions are always welcome!
(UPDATED) * currently available on Listen Again - BBC7 has been repeating the first series of "Hamish & Dougal". The run ended on Oct 1st; the final episode in the series can be heard via Listen Again through next Monday from http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/monday/rams/2245.ram
(NEW) * Weds, 3 Oct - "Gagging for It: TV's Hunger for Radio Comedy" on BBC 4 at 23:20 talks about "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" (thanks to wackywales for this info)
* Weds, 3 Oct - "Wogan: Now and Then". UKTV Gold repeats the episode with Bill at 2:00 (UKTV Gold Plus 1 shows it again an hour later).
* Thurs, 4 Oct - "Chute!" on BBC 1 at 17:00. The description for this episode mentions Bill: "Ross Lee has comedy adventures watching hilarious clips with celebrity guests. Ross discovers that he is being spied on by Bill Oddie."
(NEW) * Sat, 6 Oct - "100 Years of Wildlife Films", presented by Bill, is being repeated on BBC 2 at 20:30-22:30.
* Sat, 6 Oct - "The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs", presented by Bill, is being repeated on BBC Prime at 15:00 and again on Sun, 7 Oct at 11:00.
(NEW) * Tues, 9 Oct - The "QI" episode with Graeme is being repeated on UKTV G2 at 01:00 and an hour later on UKTV G2 Plus 1.
* Mon, 5 Nov - "Autumnwatch" with Bill Oddie returns for a two-week run.
(NEW) * Mondays starting Mon, 12 Nov - "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again" will get a repeat run on BBC7 at 12.30pm and 7.30pm (available afterward from Listen Again). I have been told that they are currently planning to broadcast series 2.
* TBA (possibly Dec 2nd) - ITV has begun airing "Agatha Christie's Marple" Series 3; Graeme has a cameo appearance in the episode entitled "Nemesis". The exact date hasn't been announced yet but club member Sosia found a website saying the episode will be broadcast on December 2nd.
(use the "click here for more" link below to see info about additional shows)
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Posted by lisa at 02/10/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again" repeats returning to BBC7 |
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I've gotten an email from BBC7 saying they've scheduled a repeat run of 'I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again' - this show will be back in the schedule on Mondays, from Monday 12th November at 12.30pm and 7.30pm. I don't have any specifics about the repeats yet, but will let you know if I get further info.
For those of you unfamiliar ISIRTA, it was a radio comedy originally broadcast from 1963 to 1973 which starred Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, and Bill Oddie. Graeme and Bill were the primary scriptwriters; Bill wrote and performed almost all the humorous songs that appeared in each episode.
BBC7 can be heard worldwide via the internet.
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Posted by lisa at 01/10/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| Goodies sighting on "Chute" |
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There must be some Goodies fans working on "Chute".
Robert King wrote to say: "[Thursday], whilst flicking through the channels I happened to notice a clip show on BBC One. It was called the Chute and was part of the CBBC programming. Anyway, the clip I saw was the classic scene of Twinkle rampaging in London - from the start of the news bulletin to Michael Aspel being crushed."
Plus, as we mentioned before, the listing for the Thurs, Oct. 4th episode of "Chute!" (on BBC 1 at 17:00) says: "Ross Lee has comedy adventures watching hilarious clips with celebrity guests. Ross discovers that he is being spied on by Bill Oddie."
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Posted by lisa at 29/09/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again repeat on BBC7 tomorrow (and repeat request info) |
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* ISIRTA episode on BBC 7 tomorrow (Saturday, 29 Sept)
The show "2's Company", will include the May 5, 1968 episode of "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again" (the episode is know by some fans as "Incompetence (Trouble at t'Mill)") 2's Company can be heard live on BBC 7 (www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7) tomorrow from 9:00am - noon (London time); it then should be available for a week from Listen Again.
Here's the description of the "2's Company" from BBC 7's newsletter:
Radio at 40
Marking the 40th Anniversary of BBC Radio, BBC7 presents 2's Comedy, a two-part series hosted by the two Kens, Ken Dodd and Ken Bruce showcasing a wide range of Radio 2's finest comedy.
In the first 3 hour programme, Ken Dodd introduces six shows from the first twelve months of BBC Radio 2:
Round The Horne - Bona Prince Charlie (first broadcast 2/6/68); The Clitheroe Kid - Have Snake Will Travel (10/12/67); The Navy Lark - Cuthbert Joins The Navy (15/10/67); The Embassy Lark (26/3/68); I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again (5/5/68) and The Ken Dodd Show (17/12/67). All great classics of the 1960s. Please note that we are not repeating this programme in the evening but instead you can hear a second selection from the 1970s and 1980s.
Saturday at 9am
* Request shows for BBC 7's 5th birthday
There's still time to request that "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again" and "Hello Cheeky" (plus other shows not currently on BBC 7's schedule) appear during their 5th birthday broadcast on December 15th. Contact info for the station and a form you can fill in to email them can be found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/feedback/
Here's the explanation about the birthday broadcast request from BBC7's
newsletter:
BBC7 is a mere toddler of course, and as I mentioned last week, our fifth birthday falls on a Saturday this year, 15th December. On that day we will be broadcasting as many of your favourite programmes from the past five years that we can squeeze in.
We have had lots of suggestions, and as they are still coming in, we are extending the deadline to Wednesday 10th October.
So you have over a week left to let us know which programmes, whether comedy or drama, you'd like to hear again on our birthday. Please remember that they must be programmes which have been broadcast on BBC 7 since our launch day, 15th December 2002.
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Posted by lisa at 28/09/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| review of Ipswich Regent Clue show |
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The following review appears on the Suffolk & Essex online website. Please note that it CONTAINS SPOILERS.
The perfect antidote to panel games
27 September 2007 | 17:23
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue; Ipswich Regent, September 25
This gloriously daft radio series, currently in its 35th year, has taken to the road and made an innuendo-filled stop over at the Ipswich Regent. The lovely Samantha was way-laid first in Framlingham, then in Woodbridge and finally in Ipswich where she was invited to lick a large Neapolitan but the rest of the regulars Humphrey Lyttleton, Colin Sell, Barry Cryer, Tim Brooke-Taylor and the show's creator Graeme Garden were all present and on fine form.
The revolving fourth chair vacated by the late Willie Rushton was filled by the tone-deaf Jeremy Hardy who delighted the sell-out crowd with some truly appalling singing in such rounds as One Song To The Tune of Another and Pick-Up Song.
The evening was really a greatest hits collection of favourite moments from the series. It was a wonderful nostalgic evening as this 'antidote to panel games' conjured up bizarre round after round.
The silly things the panellist were given to do included Stars In Their Ears where the panellists sing unsuitable melodies as various celebrities, Sound Charades which is carried out without the benefit of mime, Sound Effects Storytime which was self-explanatory and Topical Nursery Rhymes.
But the round that got the biggest cheer of the evening was the ever-popular Mornington Crescent - the rules of which appear to be as incomprehensible as ever and on this occasion were merged with those of Scrabble.
It was a delightfully daft evening and the packed auditorium filed out at the end of the evening still chuckling and reciting their favourite lines to one another - many of those belonged to Humph (as Lyttleton is affectionately known) and although on the surface seemed quite innocent were, on reflection, positively filthy.
It's a series which revels in wit and fast-thinking by its players and we were all dazzled by their cleverness. A fantastic evening and we await their return with eager anticipation.
Andrew Clarke
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| Petersborough Telegraph article about sold out Clue recording |
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from Petersborough's Evening Telegraph (at http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/Tickets-sell-out-in-a.3224585.jp)
Published Date: 24 September 2007
Source: Peterborough ET
Location: Peterborough
Tickets sell out in a day for Radio 4's top show
EVERY ticket for a Peterborough recording of one of the nation's best-loved radio programmes has been snapped up in a day by eager fans.
Long-running Radio 4 programme I'm sorry I Haven't A Clue will be recorded at the Broadway Theatre, on December 4, but tickets have already sold out after the announcement of the recording on Monday prompted a rush for tickets.
More than 1,000 tickets were sold on the same day they were made available for the show, which will feature regular panellists Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and jazz musician Humphrey Lyttleton as the ever-reliable chairman.
The Peterborough recording will also feature a mystery guest, who will be announced closer to the day of recording.
Although currently off-air, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue – or simply Clue to die-hard fans – was first broadcast in 1972 and regularly sees guest appearances from the likes of Stephen Fry, Paul Merton, Sandy Toksvig and Jeremy Hardy.
Dave King at the Broadway said: "We are one of four venues in the country to be hosting the programme.
"We sold more than 1,000 tickets between 10am and 6pm on Monday, and the remaining tickets were sold overnight via the internet and in an hour the following day."
Fans of the programme can sign up to an e-mail alert through the BBC which announces where and when the cast will be recording the programme, and all of the other recordings have also sold out.
The sell-out show at the Broadway follows the announcement earlier this year that comic Billy Connolly would be appearing at the venue, prompting a rush on tickets.
Mr King said: "We've had sell-outs across the board this season.
"My background is in radio and I've listened to I'm Sorry I Haven't Got A Clue for years because it really is a very funny show and has been for a long time.
"I know they've had people like John Cleese and Michael Palin as guests before, so we're looking forward to finding out who it will be."
Compere of Peterborough's King Knut's Comedy Club, John Elson, said the show is a seminal influence on generations of comedians.
"I've listened to it for about 20 years, I think," he said.
"I used to love it when Willie Rushden was on it and it really is the best thing on the radio – the made-up games like Mornington Cresent are hilarious.
"I can't believe I've missed out on tickets."
More about I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue online - www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/clue.shtml
Last Updated: 24 September 2007 12:33 PM
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Posted by lisa at 24/09/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| Bill in "Chute!" (& other upcoming shows) |
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The listing for the Thurs, 4 Oct episode of "Chute!" on BBC 1 at 17:00 mentions Bill: "Ross Lee has comedy adventures watching hilarious clips with celebrity guests. Ross discovers that he is being spied on by Bill Oddie."
Use the "click here for more" link below to see other upcoming shows of interest.
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Posted by lisa at 24/09/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| reminder: ISIHAC Mornington Crescent CD to be released Oct 1st |
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Just a reminder that the latest "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" CD, "In Search of Mornington Crescent" is due to be released in the UK next Monday, Oct. 1st.
It will be available from major retailers (including those such as Amazon.co.uk, who will ship internationally) and should also be available as a download from digital retailers who carry the BBC Audiobooks line such as Audible, Audioville, iTunes, Mediabay, 7 Digital, Simply Audiobooks, Spoken Network, TuneTribe, Plays on the Net and Wippit.
Here's a description of the 2-CD set from Amazon.co.uk's website:
This is the most definitive and complete guide ever produced on one of radio's most popular and enigmatic games. Mornington Crescent is a game enshrined in many of the legends of our sceptred isle. Now, at last, the eminent broadcaster Andrew Marr peers - with the help of Humphrey Lyttelton, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Barry Cryer and many famous fans of "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" - behind the veil of secrecy which has until now surrounded it. In this extended hour-long special, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4, the myth and mystery of the ever-popular game is finally uncovered, with contributions from well-known experts and enthusiasts of the game: Dame Judi Dench, Sir Michael Gambon, Antony Worrall Thompson, Adam Hart-Davis and Barry Davies.Including extra unbroadcast material, the almost unbelievable story of this illustrious game is told via interviews with historians, scholars and members of the public. It is a fascinating documentary, both for Mornington Crescent novices as well as more seasoned players of the game. As if that wasn't enough, the Clue team also provides readings of four historical accounts on the subject: The Artful Dodgson, The Scandal of Mad Jack Camden, Game and Death On The Line.
From Roman times to Chaucer and beyond, Mornington Crescent has become a legend at its own tube stop. Now, at last, its true history can be told.
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Posted by lisa at 23/09/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| some BBC 7 news items |
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* BBC 7 (www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7) recently was seeking suggestions for shows their listeners would like to hear again on the station's fifth birthday in December. Why not drop them at note at http://www.bbc.co.uk/feedback/ requesting "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again", "Hello Cheeky", or other shows involving our favourite trio? "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" is part of BBC 7's regular schedule and is one of their most popular programs, so there's no need to request the show in general (though you might want to ask about series or specials they haven't previously aired).
* Speaking of ISIHAC, according to BBC 7's newsletter fans can hear an extra episode this week this Saturday (22nd Sept) during "Comedy Controller: Tom Robinson". His selection is scheduled to include: Radio Active (19/7/1985) The Very World of Milton Jones (26/10/1999) King Cutler (8/2/1990) Round The Horne (15/2/1967) The Boosh - Jazz (23/2/2001) and I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (12/6/2000). It airs at Saturday at 9am, 8pm and 3am and can be heard from BBC 7's website (the show will also be available for about a week after broadcast from Listen Again).
* The following update about the upcoming Linda Smith tribute is also from BBC7's newsletter - "In October, Linda's biography will be published. "Driving Miss Smith" is written by [Linda's partner, Warren Lakin], and a percentage of his royalties will go to Overian Cancer Action. On Sunday 28th October, in conjunction with the book launch, there will be a fund-raising concert, "Linda Smith's Favourite Things, Vol 2," taking place at the Victoria Palace Theatre, starting at 7.00p.m. The line-up of performers so far, for what promises to be a brilliant concert, include: Jo Brand, Dara O'Brien, Jeremy Hardy, Phill Jupitus, Chris Neill, John Shuttleworth, Kevin Eldon, Jenni Murray, Charlotte Green, Jackie Clune, Ian Shaw, Carol Grimes Band, and Ronnie and the Rex.
You can buy priority advance tickets now, before they go on general sale by telephoning the box office , 020 7834 3034, quoting "Friends and Family"
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Posted by lisa at 21/09/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| ISIHAC tour review from the Birmingham Mail |
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The following review appeared in the Sept 19th edition of the Birmingham Mail. Please note that it contains spoilers.
I'm sorry, it was a treat; REVIEWS I'M SORRY I HAVEN'T A CLUE
Birmingham Hippodrome
by: TONY COLLINS
YOU knew you were in for something different when kazoos were left on every armrest to guarantee audience participation.
The Hippodrome stage was transformed into a recording studio for the long-running BBC Radio 4 comedy quiz.
Billed as the best bits from the show's history and chaired by Humphrey Lyttelton, comedians Tim Brooke-Taylor, Jeremy Hardy, Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer battled it out in a series of bizarre rounds.
Where else would you get Tim singing Girlfriend in a Coma by The Smiths to the tune of Tiptoe Through the Tulips, or Graham playing Lady Bracknell from The Importance of Being Earnest - in the style of Darth Vader?
Other entertaining rounds ranged from bad chat-up lines and incorrect sound effects to hilarious mimes during sound charades and the reason for the kazoos eventually became clear when the audience was called upon to play a version of karaoke - with the panel having to guess the tunes.
The show will be broadcast on Radio 4 at a later date.
VERDICT: *****
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Posted by lisa at 20/09/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| Graeme in this week's "The Right Time" repeat |
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Graeme appeared again in this week's repeat of "The Right Time" on BBC 7. The show can be heard using Listen Again from this link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/tuesday/rams/0830.ram
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Here's a list of upcoming shows of interest to Goodies fans. "(NEW)" indicates shows added since the last update (some of which may be repeats). Feel free to let us know about anything that should be added to the list contributions are always welcome!
* Sat, 22 Sept - "Top 50 Greatest Celebrity Animals" with Bill will be repeated on Sky One and Sky One HD at 12:00-14:00
(NEW) * Sat, 29 Sept - "The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs", presented by Bill, is being repeated on BBC Prime at 15:00 and again on Sun, 30 Sept at 11:00.
(NEW) * Mon, 1 Oct - The "QI" episode with Graeme is being repeated on UKTV G2 at 21:00 and an hour later on UKTV G2 Plus 1.
* Mon, 5 Nov - "Autumnwatch" with Bill Oddie returns for a two-week run.
* Mondays - The first series of "Hamish & Dougal" is being repeated on BBC 7 at 22:45. The show can be heard worldwide via the internet from www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7 on the day of broadcast as well as for six days afterwards using Listen Again (from http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/monday/rams/2245.ram).
* Mondays - BBC 7 airs old episodes of "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" (with Tim and Graeme). Each episode is available via Listen Again for six days after broadcast. The show can be heard worldwide via the internet from www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7 on the day of broadcast as well as for six days afterwards using Listen Again.
* Mondays - "Bromwell High", an animated series in which Graeme voices one of the characters, on TV2 in NZ at 1:00am (info at http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/413551/1105553)
* Tuesdays - "The Right Time" is being repeated by BBC7. Graeme appeared in some episodes of this sketch comedy series which originally aired on BBC Radio 4 in 2001. BBC 7 can be heard worldwide via the interview from www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7. Each episode will be available from Listen Again for a week after broadcast from http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/tuesday/rams/0830.ram
* Saturdays - "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again", on ABC Radio National at 5:30. This 1960's sketch comedy series starred with all three Goodies plus John Cleese, Jo Kendall, & David Hatch (info at http://www.abc.net.au/rn/comedy/default.htm)
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Posted by lisa at 18/09/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue - Autumn Recordings |
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The autumn "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" recordings for BBC Radio 4 (which are separate from the ongoing ISIHAC stage tour) have been announced. Below are the dates & venues. Please use the "click here for more" link below to see more detailed booking information.
ISIHAC Recording Dates:
1. Tuesday 16th October 2007 at the Concert Hall, Fairfield Halls, Croydon
TICKETS ON SALE FROM 10am on MONDAY 17TH SEPTEMBER
2. Tuesday 30th October 2007 at the Manchester Opera House
TICKETS ON SALE FROM 10am on MONDAY 17TH SEPTEMBER
3. Tuesday 4th December 2007 at the Broadway Theatre, Peterborough
TICKETS ON SALE FROM 10am on MONDAY 17TH SEPTEMBER
4. ISIHAC Christmas Special entitled "Humph In Wonderland", which is being recorded at the Lyric Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue on Sunday 25th November 2007.
TICKETS ON SALE FROM 10am on MONDAY 17TH SEPTEMBER
Linda Smith tribute concert
This is a charity event being held at the Victoria Palace Theatre on Sunday 28th October to raise money for Ovarian Cancer Action. This show features some guests who've appeared on ISIHAC, such as Jeremy Hardy and Phill Jupitus.
Sunday 28 October
Tickets on sale now
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| Times review of ISIHAC tour |
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The Times edition from September 12th includes a review of the "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" tour date in Northampton (giving it 4 out of 5 stars). The review is available on their website here. Please note that THIS CONTAINS SPOILERS.
A cut & paste of the text can be found in our forums at this link.
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Posted by lisa at 11/09/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| two ISIHAC tour reviews |
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Here are two reviews of the "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" tour, one from thisisnottingham.co.uk and another from someone's blog. Please note that the blog entry contains spoilers.
REVIEW #1 - from http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=133942&command=displayContent&sourceNode=188957&contentPK=18346175&folderPk=103546&pNodeId=188964
SURE-FIRE DEVICES TO RAISE BELLY LAUGHS
09:00 - 10 September 2007
There is still a place for parlour games in the 21st Century - and this was the sell-out show to prove it.
Not a ticket to be had - hardly a surprise for a phenomenon that's been incredibly popular on the radio for more than 35 years.
Fans of I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue, need no introduction to the format and personnel.
But with a cast of comic veterans Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden, with Barry Cryer, and relative newcomer Jeremy Hardy, it's easy to work out exactly where this self-styled antidote to panel games pitches itself on the comedy scale.
Humphrey Lyttelton is the chairman, with Colin Sell at the piano. But the lovely Samantha was sadly absent, her excuses ranging from buttering up a pensioner in Beeston to helping a City Hospital anaesthetist with his patients and watching him knocking one out in front of her.
Not so much near the knuckle, rather the kind of rudeness that can just about get onto Radio 4 and Radio 7, where the show has its home.
The performers are on the road thanks to the demand of the fans, yet the tour is apparently unrelated to the BBC - the shows won't be broadcast and it seems the corporation was a little tetchy in releasing the brand name for the venture.
But the momentum is unstoppable: panel game favourites such as Mornington Crescent, one song to the tune of another, verbal charades, updated proverbs and more reduced the audience to belly laughs and tears of mirth, and everything in-between.
The crowd was easy to crack??? a bit like the best man's speech, when you can't really lose. Still, no points are awarded and there's no winner. Except the audience.
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REVIEW #2 - from http://baggy.livejournal.com/683734.html WARNING - CONTAINS SPOILERS!!!
I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue
I’ve been listening to ISIHAC on the radio for a few years now and have managed to get though a fair amount of the programs over it’s 25 years on air.
For those not in the know it’s a panel based comedy thing that’s described as the antidote to panel games due to its irrelevant and off the wall humour which is sometimes scripted sometimes improvised.
Still providing the laughs after all these years are ex-Goodies Tim Brooke Taylor (67) and Graeme Garden (64) (who I saw do their own show recently). Comedy writer Barry Cryer (72) is also still there after a lengthy time along with chairman of the proceedings Humphrey Lyttelton who is a sprightly 86, although during the second half he had a few senior moments as he got his cards mixed up and needed help from the producer. In addition to these old turns was regular guest panellist Jeremy Hardy (46).
The evening was described as a kind of best of ISIHAC which meant that a lot of gags from the years were used along with some new ones to keep things fresh.
One of the old ones included:
"Nottingham is a fine city with a fascinating history. It's well documented in official records that the city's original name was 'Snottingham', or 'Home of Snots', but when the Normans came, they couldn't pronounce the letter 'S', so decreed the town be called 'Nottingham' or the 'Home of Notts'. It's easy to understand why this change was resisted so fiercely by the people of Scunthorpe."
Over 2 lots of hours they were given plenty of silly things to do some including Colin Sell on the piano as they sang One Song To The Tune Of Another, one of them being 'Girlfriend In A Coma' to the tune of 'Tiptoe Through The Tulips'.
Highlights included Sound Charades where the teams had to give clues to a movie or book etc. Graeme & Barry’s creations of Hamish & Dougal were give a welcome cheer as they passed wind while walking up a brae for Braveheart (Brae fart, geddit).
The Uxbridge English Dictionary is one of the funniest for me as the panel come up with new definitions for words usually with a second delay before the laughs as the crowds figures the joke out. I liked Jerermy’s: Sanctity – French woman with many breasts.
Mornington Crescent is a game that makes no sense, and isn’t meant to. The team members say the names of tube stations that are meant to have relevance to each other, but don’t. This time a sat nav device was in use by the team and had the woman’s voice telling them things like Ran over cyclist – 20 points, and can you stop at McDonalds I need a pee, and I love Jeremy, and why can’t you be more like Jeremy.
Group karaoke attempted to get the entire audience to hum a song in order for the panel to guess it. But as most of the crowd were shy and the rest out of sync it was tough for them to guess Bohemian Rhapsody until some brave girls near the front upped the volume.
The team ended the evening with a rendition of 'I Can Do Anything Better Than You' played on the swanee whistle and kazoo which lead into Humph showing us what his real job is when he played his jazz trumpet. A nice end to 2 hours of laughs.
Usually every half a year the gang would perform at 3 venues recording 2 episodes for the radio at each. But this time they were on their first ever non recorded mini tour for 35 years. I’ve read that if it was a success then a longer one might be coming in 2008. If so I’ll be there.
There were people of all ages there including some young kids who I think would have been very lost in this world of sophisticated word play and sexual innuendo from Humph as he received the reasons why their (non existent) scorer Samantha couldn’t be there.
I think it’s one of those things where you have to know a bit of the history to be fully amused but could probably get by without. All I know is that at some points there was a definite tear of laughter in my eye.
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Posted by lisa at 10/09/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| The Independent article about "At Last the 1948 Show" |
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The following short article about "At Last the 1948 Show" appeared in the London newspaper The Independent on September 7, 2007 in the "cult classics" section.
'At Last the 1948 Show', 1967
Starring future Flying Circus faces John Cleese and Graham Chapman, At Last the 1948 Show was, in effect, Monty Python before Monty Python. First broadcast in March 1967, the groundbreaking show stemmed from David Frost's plan to provide comic contributors to his Frost Report.
Originally, Cleese and Chapman were to star in their own separate series, but agreed to collaborate. The team was completed by Tim Brooke-Taylor and Marty Feldman. Many of their sketches have been etched into the national comedy consciousness, notably the clan of Aussies, all called Sydney Lotterby, and "The Four Yorkshiremen", both later revived by the Pythons.
In the latter, the quartet up the ante on each other, by expostulating on their "poor but happy" childhoods. "We had it tough," brags Brooke-Taylor as the new-moneyed Northerner, before disgorging a litany of abuse. Delivered deadpan, sketches such as this changed the face of British comedy and earned the show a cult reputation.
In between the appearance of now-familiar comedy characters, female support was provided by Aimi MacDonald, who delivered Pythonesque "And now..." links between the sketches.
Robert Webb
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Posted by lisa at 10/09/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| this week's list of upcoming tv/radio shows of interest |
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Here's a list of upcoming shows of interest to Goodies fans. "(NEW)" indicates shows added since the last update (some of which may be repeats). Feel free to let us know about anything that should be added to the list contributions are always welcome!
(UPDATED) * Still available on Listen Again - "Radio Fun: The Story of Radio Comedy" from Sun, 9 Sept included a segment on "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again". This edition will be available until the next edition airs this coming Sunday from BBC 7's website (http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/sunday/) or directly from (http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/sunday/rams/1200.ram)
* Mondays starting 10 Sept - The first series of "Hamish & Dougal" is being repeated on BBC 7 at 22:45. The show can be heard worldwide via the internet from www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7 on the day of broadcast as well as for six days afterwards using Listen Again (from http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/monday/rams/2245.ram).
* Tues, 18 Sept - The "Comedy Connections" episode about The Goodies is being repeated on UKTV Gold at 1:40am. UKTV Gold Plus 1 will repeat the show one hour later.
(NEW) * Sat, 22 Sept - "Top 50 Greatest Celebrity Animals" with Bill will be repeated on Sky One and Sky One HD at 12:00-14:00
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Posted by lisa at 10/09/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| updated dates/times for "Comedy Connections" repeat |
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Please note that the listings for the repeat "Comedy Connections" episode about The Goodies have changed since we first announced it. I suggest you check your local listings to confirm the correct details.
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Here's a list of upcoming shows of interest to Goodies fans. "(NEW)" indicates shows added since the last update (some of which may be repeats). Feel free to let us know about anything that should be added to the list contributions are always welcome!
(UPDATED) * Fri, 7 Sept - "Bill Oddie's Top 10 Birds" is being repeated on BBC 2 at 19:30.
(UPDATED) * Fri, 7 Sept - The "Comedy Connections" episode about The Goodies is being repeated on UKTV Gold at 3:10am and again on Tues, 18 Sept at 1:40am. UKTV Gold Plus 1 will repeat the show one hour after each UKTV Gold airing. Please check your local listings to confirm the broadcast details.
(NEW) * Sun, 9 Sept - "Radio Fun: The Story of Radio Comedy" on BBC 7 at 12:00 to 12:30. This episode is supposed to cover "From the hugely influential I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again, right up to Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy." The show can be heard online from www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7 and will be available from Listen Again for a week after broadcast.
(NEW) * Mondays starting 10 Sept - The first series of "Hamish & Dougal" is being repeated on BBC 7 at 22:45. The show can be heard worldwide via the internet from www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7 on the day of broadcast as well as for six days afterwards using Listen Again.
* Mondays - BBC 7 airs old episodes of "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" (with Tim and Graeme). Each episode is available via Listen Again for six days after broadcast. The show can be heard worldwide via the internet from www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7 on the day of broadcast as well as for six days afterwards using Listen Again.
* Mondays - "Bromwell High", an animated series in which Graeme voices one of the characters, on TV2 in NZ at 1:00am (info at http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/413551/1105553)
(NEW) * Tuesdays - "The Right Time" is being repeated by BBC7. Graeme appeared in some episodes of this sketch comedy series which originally aired on BBC Radio 4 in 2001. It can be heard worldwide via the internet from www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7 and then from Listen Again for a week after broadcast from http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/tuesday/rams/0830.ram
* Saturdays - "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again", on ABC Radio National at 5:30. This 1960's sketch comedy series starred with all three Goodies plus John Cleese, Jo Kendall, & David Hatch (info at http://www.abc.net.au/rn/comedy/default.htm)
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| ISIHAC: in Search of Mornington Crescent CD cover artwork |
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The cover for the forthcoming "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue: in Search of Mornington Crescent" CD can be seen on Amazon.co.uk.
The CD will be released on October 1st. Here's the description from Amazon: "Mornington Crescent is a game whose rules and history are shrouded in myth and mystery. Now, in this extended version of a spoof documentary first aired on BBC Radio 4, the team from "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" research shine a light in the dark. As if that wasn't enough, Humphrey Lyttelton, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Barry Cryer also provide readings from two learned books on the subject: "The Little Book of Mornington Crescent" and "Stovold's Mornington Crescent Almanac". From Roman times to Chaucer and beyond, "Mornington Crescent" has become a legend in its own tube stop. Now, at last, its true history can be told."
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| UKTV to repeat Goodies episode of "Comedy Connections" on Sept 6th |
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Here's a list of upcoming shows of interest to Goodies fans. "(NEW)" indicates shows added since the last update (some of which may be repeats). Feel free to let us know about anything that should be added to the list contributions are always welcome!
(NEW) * Sat, 25 Aug - "100 Years of Wildlife Films" hosted by Bill on BBC 4 from 2:10-4:10pm. The show will be repeated that evening at 9:05pm and again on Aug 30th at 3:30pm and Aug 31st at 5:55pm. Here's a listing: "From the most memorable wildlife films and rare cinematic gems, to amateur footage and the poignant last shots of vanished animals, Bill Oddie explores 100 years of wildlife filming. The documentary looks at how societal attitudes towards wildlife have shaped film-making - from hunting and safaris in the 1930s to a fresh-faced David Attenborough leaping on to animals to catch them for zoos in the 1950s."
(NEW) * Mon, 27 Aug - "Bill Oddie's Top 10 Birds" is being repeated on BBC 4 at 7:00-8:00pm.
(NEW) * Mon, 27 Aug - "Mark Lawson Talks To..." Bill Oddie is being repeated on BBC 4 at 8:00-9:00pm
(NEW) * Mon, 27 Aug - "Wogan: Now And Then" on UKTV Gold at 11:15pm. This episode has "The best moments from Terry Wogan's chat show. Included in the line-up: Dancer Michael Flately, national treasure Julie Walters, Goodie turned bird fancier Bill Oddie and comedian and now actor to boot - Johnny Vegas."
(NEW) * Thurs, 6 Sept - "Comedy Connections" episode about The Goodies is being repeated on UKTV Gold at 10:15pm and again on Mon, 17 Sept at 8:40pm. UKTV Gold Plus 1 will repeat the show an hour after each UKTV Gold airing.
* Mondays - BBC 7 airs old episodes of "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" (with Tim and Graeme). Each episode is available via Listen Again for six days after broadcast. The show can be heard worldwide via the internet from www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7 on the day of broadcast as well as for six days afterwards using Listen Again.
* Mondays - "Bromwell High", an animated series in which Graeme voices one of the characters, on TV2 in NZ at 1:00am (info at http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/413551/1105553)
* Saturdays - "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again", on ABC Radio National at 5:30. This 1960's sketch comedy series starred with all three Goodies plus John Cleese, Jo Kendall, & David Hatch (info at http://www.abc.net.au/rn/comedy/default.htm)
* various - "Bill Oddie Goes Wild" is being repeated on UKTV Gardens on various days and at various times.
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Posted by lisa at 22/08/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| "At Last the 1948 Show" album being released on CD |
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The "At Last the 1948 Show" album, which was originally issued in 1967 by Pye Records, is being released on CD in the UK and the US. The album contains sketches & songs from the television series which starred Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Marty Feldman, & Aimi Macdonald.
The UK release date is August 20th. The CD will be available from major retailers such as Amazon.co.uk and Play.com.
In the US, Amazon.com lists an August 28th release date and a price of $22.99. Online retailer DeepDiscount.com (formerly known as DeepDiscountDVD & DeepDiscountCD) shows an August 20th release date and is selling the CD for the substantially lower price of $12.40 (plus free shipping in the US).
Please let us know if you spot the CD on sale from any Australian merchants.
Here is the CD's track listing:
Bookshop
Sheep Dog Trials
Brief Interrogation
The Wonderful World Of The Ant
Rural Farm (Dialect)
Witch Restaurant
Top Of The Form
Someone Has Stolen The News
One Man Battle
Doctor Sketch (Crowded Waiting Room / Skinny Legs) Minister Who Falls To Pieces Do You Want To Match This Description?
Engine Driver Spriggs
The Four Sydney Lotterbies
Beekeeping
The Ferret Song (Studio Version)
Public Opinion
The Rhubarb Tart Song
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue news items |
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The following news items were sent to the ISIHAC mailing list today:
1. The I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Tour dates are now all sold out, with the exception of the late addition at the Bristol Hippodrome. The details of this show are as follows:
Tuesday 28 August BRISTOL HIPPODROME
Show starts 7.30pm, ends approx 10pm
Tickets: £21 - £23.50
Booking details:
In person at the Box Office open Mon-Sat 10am - 8pm (6pm when no performance) Ticketmaster 0870 607 7500 - 24hr booking line - subject to booking/transaction fee Online at http://www.bristolhippodrome.org.uk
Freephone Groups 10+ 0800 587 5007 Mon-Fri 10am - 6pm
2. The show at the Brighton Dome on Monday 8th October starts at 8pm, not 7.30pm, as has been stated previously. All the other Tours shows start at 7.30pm
3. The three recording dates and venues for the next series for BBC Radio 4 will be announced in early September.
4. A new audio cassette entitled "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue - In Search of Mornington Crescent" will be released by BBC Audiobooks on 1st October 2007. The CD features the regular cast of ISIHAC, with contributions from various qualified commentators, including Andrew Marr, Barry Davies, Sir Michael Gambon and Dame Judi Dench. It is available now to pre-order from www.bbcshop.com and all good street and online audio retailers, and to download from 15th October via www.bbcaudiozone.com and all good audio download retailers.
5. There are shortly going to be two means of receiving communication about 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue'. The first is the mailing list (which will give you details of all BBC Radio recordings, 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Theatre tour dates, and new ISIHAC book and audio releases), and the second is the 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue' newsletter, which will simply contain details of BBC radio recordings of the programme. The mailing list will be run by the show's producer, Jon Naismith, and the newsletter will be managed by the show's Broadcast Assistant Elaine Wigley. If you wish only to receive details of BBC recordings of 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue', you can sign on for the newsletter at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/clue.shtml
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| Wiltshire Times article about ISIHAC tour |
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There's a brief article about the forthcoming I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Office Stage Tour in the Wiltshire Times at http://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/display.var.1619138.0.0.php:
I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue
Tuesday, August 28, Bristol Hippodrome.
BBC Radio's multi award-winning antidote to panel games starts its first live tour in 35 years.
Join Humphrey Lyttelton, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Jeremy Hardy and pianist Colin Sell for an unmissable evening of inspired nonsense.
I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, sometimes abbreviated to ISIHAC or simply Clue, is a BBC radio comedy which has run since April 11 1972. Since then, the programme has had several series each year, being broadcast on BBC Radio 4, BBC 7 and the BBC's World Service.
The show, introduced as "the antidote to panel games", consists of a panel of four comedians, split into two teams and "given silly things to do" by a chairman.
The show was conceived as a parody of the then-ubiquitous radio panel game, and includes elements that satirise such shows, both on radio and television.
advertisementGuest panellists who have appeared on the show include Bill Bailey, Max Boyce, Rob Brydon, John Cleese (who was a regular panel member during the first series in 1972), Jack Dee, Kenny Everett, Stephen Fry, Tony Hawks, Harry Hill, Jo Kendall (another regular panel member during the first series in 1972), Paul Merton, Linda Smith and Sandi Toksvig.
"Whether the teams are singing the words of one song to the tune of another, making up serial rhymes or entering the mythic maze of Mornington Crescent, they have now become the National Theatre of fun." Gillian Reynolds, Daily Telegraph.
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| this week's list of upcoming Goodies-related shows |
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Besides the shows listed below, fans of ISIHAC also may be interested to learn that BBC Radio 4 is repeating a recent series of "Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation" on Thursday evenings.
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Here's a list of upcoming shows of interest to Goodies fans. "(NEW)" indicates shows added since the last update (some of which may be repeats). Feel free to let us know about anything that should be added to the list contributions are always welcome!
* Tuesdays - the new series of "About a Dog", written by Graeme Garden and starring Alan Davies, on BBC Radio 4 at 18:30. It can be heard online from
www.bbc.co.uk/radio4 and will be available for a week after broadcast from Listen Again at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks/radio4/aod.shtml?radio4/aboutadog.
* Mondays - BBC 7 airs old episodes of "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" (with Tim and Graeme). Each episode is available via Listen Again for six days after broadcast. The show can be heard worldwide via the internet from www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7 on the day of broadcast as well as for six days afterwards using Listen Again.
(UPDATED) * Mondays - "Bromwell High", an animated series in which Graeme voices one of the characters, on TV2 in NZ at 1:00am (info at http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/413551/1105553)
* Saturdays - "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again", on ABC Radio National at 5:30. This 1960's sketch comedy series starred with all three Goodies plus John Cleese, Jo Kendall, & David Hatch (info at http://www.abc.net.au/rn/comedy/default.htm)
* various - "Bill Oddie Goes Wild" is being repeated on UKTV Gardens on various days and at various times - please check your local listings for details.
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Posted by lisa at 11/08/2007 23:00 GMT |
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| ISIHAC tour selling out |
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Most of the shows in the "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" Official Stage Tour have sold out, but there are still tickets available for the dates in Bristol and Ipswitch. There may also be some tickets available from the Brighton box office.
The tour schedule, including dates, venues, & ticketing information, is available in our FAQ.
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Posted by lisa at 30/07/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| "Footlights and Fancy Free" - July 28th |
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The Saturday, 28 July edition of Archive Hour on BBC Radio 4 at 20:00 is entitled "Footlights and Fancy Free". As described on Radio 4's website, "This programme uses the extensive archives of the Cambridge University Footlights Club to tell its story, from a cricket match inspired inception in 1883 to the bright young things of the current day."
A promo for this show, played just before "About a Dog", includes a clip of a courtroom sketch which I believe is from "Cambridge Circus" (if not, it's from "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again"), meaning there should be some content of interest to Goodies fans in this show.
The broadcast can be heard online from www.bbc.co.uk/radio4. It may not be available from Listen Again.
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Posted by lisa at 25/07/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| Listen Again problems affect "About a Dog" |
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The BBC is currently experiencing major technical problems with the BBC Radio Player. This affects their Listen Again (audio on demand) service, with the result that this week's episode of "About A Dog" is currently unavailable on Listen Again. "About a Dog" was written by Graeme Garden; the affected episode, the second of the current series, was broadcast on Tuesday and should be available through next Tuesday once the technical problems have been corrected.
I'll keep checking the website and let you know when the problem appears to be corrected. If you spot it first please let us know.
UPDATE:
Thanks to Steve G. for noting on goodies-l that the show is available directly from this link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks/radio4/aod.shtml?radio4/aboutadog#
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Posted by lisa at 19/07/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| Bristol date added to ISIHAC tour - GOES ON SALE FRIDAY, JUNE 20TH |
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[From the ISIHAC Mailing list]
Dear I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Mailing List Member,
Two pieces of information which may be of interest...
The first concerns the "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" Official Stage Tour. This is a kind of 'best of' show, featuring favourite rounds from the past 35 years. The guest panellist will be Jeremy Hardy. The show will not be recorded for broadcast on Radio 4, but may be recorded for release as part of the BBC Radio Collection.
After the huge response to the first email I sent out, six of the ten tour dates are completely sold out, and we have added one more date. This will be as follows:
Tuesday 28 August BRISTOL HIPPODROME
TICKETS WILL GO ON SALE TODAY (FRIDAY 20th JULY) FROM 10am
Show starts 7.30pm, ends approx 10pm
Tickets: £21 - £23.50
Booking details:
* In person at the Box Office open Mon-Sat 10am - 8pm (6pm when no performance)
* Ticketmaster 0870 607 7500 - 24hr booking line - subject to booking/transaction fee
* Online at www.bristolhippodrome.org.uk
* Freephone Groups 10+ 0800 587 5007 Mon-Fri 10am - 6pm
The theatre will be sending out a brochure on Monday to the general public.
The following venues still have tickets (though are likely to sell out by the beginning of August when they send out their brochures:
Tuesday 18 September BIRMINGHAM HIPPODROME
Show starts 7.30pm, ends approx 10pm
Tickets: £14.50 - £26.50
Box Office: 0121 622 7486
www.birminghamhippodrome.com
Wednesday 19 September BIRMINGHAM HIPPODROME
Show starts 7.30pm, ends approx 10pm
Tickets: £14.50 - £26.50
Box Office: 0121 622 7486
www.birminghamhippodrome.com
Tuesday 25 September IPSWICH REGENT
Show starts 7.30pm, ends approx 10pm
Tickets: £20 - £22.50
Box Office: 01473 433 100
https://online.ipswich.gov.uk/eSROIpswich/
Monday 8 October BRIGHTON DOME (BRIGHTON COMEDY FESTIVAL)
Show starts 7.30pm, ends approx 10pm
Tickets: £20 - £23
Box Office 01273 709709
www.brightondome.org
www.brightoncomedyfestival.com
The second piece of information concerns Jeremy Hardy's stand up tour. Fans of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue will know Jeremy as a regular on the programme, as well as The News Quiz. These are Jeremy's tour dates:
Sat 15th Sept Oxford Playhouse
Thurs Sept 20th-Sat Sept 22nd Irish Film Institute, Dublin
Wed 3rd Oct Southend Palace Theatre
Friday 5th Oct Broxbourne Civic Theatre
Tues 23rd Oct Scunthorpe Plowright Theatre
Wed Oct 31st Lougborough Town Hall
Sat 3rd Nov Colchester Arts Centre
Thu 8th Nov Wimborne Tivoli Theatre
Fri 30th Nov Runcorn Brindley
Tues Dec 4th Swindon Arts Centre
Wed 5th Dec Pontardawe Arts Centre
Thu 6th Dec Gloucester Guildhall
Fri 7th Dec Huddersfield Lawrence Batley Theatre
Sat 8th Dec Stockton Arc
Wed 12th Dec Bracknell Arts Centre
Details of the venue box offices and ticket prices can be found online.
Best wishes
Jon Naismith
Producer, ISIHAC
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| this week's list of upcoming Goodies-related shows |
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Besides the shows listed below, please note that Graeme's appearance on "Wireless Wise", which aired on BBC 7 last Tuesday (10 July) will be available from Listen Again for another day from http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/tuesday/.
In addition, a repeat of "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Christmas Carol", which was part of this past Saturday's "Comedy Winners", also will be available from BBC 7 via Listen Again from http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/saturday/
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Here's a list of upcoming shows of interest to Goodies fans. "(NEW)" indicates shows added since the last update (some of which may be repeats). Feel free to let us know about anything that should be added to the list contributions are always welcome!
(UPDATED) * Tuesdays - the new series of "About a Dog", written by Graeme Garden and starring Alan Davies, on BBC Radio 4 at 18:30. It can be heard online from www.bbc.co.uk/radio4 and will be available for a week after broadcast from Listen Again at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks/radio4/aod.shtml?radio4/aboutadog.
* Mon, 16 July - "Birding with Bill Oddie" on UKTV Gardens. It looks like they are running a marathon of episodes throughout the day Monday. Please consult your local listings for specific times.
* Fri, 20 July - "QI" on BBC 2 at 22:00 is a repeat of Graeme's appearance on the show.
* Friday & Saturday nights - episodes of "The Goodies" will be repeated on Paramount 2. Please check your local listings for times.
Use the "click here for more" link to see additional entries.
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Posted by lisa at 15/07/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| more ISIHAC stage tour dates sell out |
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As you can see from the tour schedule in our FAQ, most of the 10 dates in the I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Official Stage Tour have sold out. Tickets are still available for Birmingham on September 19th and Ipswich on September 25th.
For the other dates it may be worthwhile checking with the Box Office, to see if they've had returns. The FAQ contains the box office phone numbers in addition to the tour schedule and other venue information.
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Posted by lisa at 13/07/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| BBC 7 repeats "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Christmas Carol" July 14th |
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BBC 7 will be repeating the special "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Christmas Carol"
tomorrow (Saturday, 14 July) as part of "Comedy Winners". It will be broadcast from 9:00am-noon, then repeated from 8:00pm-11:00pm. The show will then be available from Listen Again for a week from http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/saturday/
"I'm Sorry I Haven't A Christmas Carol" was originally broadcast in 2003.
The cast includes Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer, Stephen Fry, Graeme Garden, Andy Hamilton, Tony Hawks, Humphrey Lyttelton, Colin Sell, Linda Smith, and Sandi Toksvig.
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| reminder: second series of "About a Dog" starts tomorrow |
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The second series of "About a Dog", written by Graeme Garden and starring Alan Davies, begins tomorrow on BBC Radio 4 (www.bbc.co.uk/radio4) at 18:30. The show should be available from Listen Again.
Note that tomorrow (Tues, July 10th) is a busy day - besides the new series of "About a Dog", BBC7 repeats Graeme's appearance in "Wireless Wise", and Graeme will turn up in "Holby City" on BBC 1.
Use the "click here for more" link to see a list of other upcoming shows of interest.
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Posted by lisa at 09/07/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| new start date for "About A Dog" / Bill on "Buzzcocks" this week |
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It appears the second series "About a Dog", which was written by Graeme, will start on Tuesday July 10th instead of this week, as we'd originally been told.
Also, a reminder about the repeat of Bill's appearance on "Never Mind the Buzzcocks" this coming Wednesday, July 4th.
Another item of note is the television version of "Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off ... to Glastonbury" on BBC4 this Friday, July 6th at 10:00pm. Graeme has provided material to the radio version; we don't know if he was involved in the television version but it's probably worth checking out (thanks to Sosia for spotting this).
Use the "click here for more" link below for a list of other upcoming Goodies-related shows.
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Posted by lisa at 01/07/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| Sir David Hatch obituary from the Liverpool Daily Post |
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An obit from The Liverpool Daily Post:
David Hatch
Jun 20 2007
by Liverpool Daily Post
THIS son of a country vicar found himself stretched between God and jokes.
Finally, jokes won because he had a love of words, their delicate timing and endless possibilities. Anyway, there were those who felt that his sense of humour had been blessed from above.
Drawn into the management of BBC Radio, he will be remembered fondly by the wider public for his deadpan style, the sole voice of sanity in the asylum and the safe pair of hands in a tank of eels.
David Hatch’s diplomacy, wit and quick-step is illustrated by the following exchanges on I’m Sorry, I’ll Read That Again in 1965 when Auntie Beeb still wore a starched petticoat and the Home Service had yet to become Radio 4,
Hatch: “What is that certain something that first attracts a boy to a girl? No one can say.”
Bill Oddie: “I can.”
Hatch: “Not on radio you can’t. I suppose the allure of a women was probably best summed up by an eminent psychoanalyst when he said . . . ”
The interruption from John Cleese could be loosely translated as “phhhwooooar”.
Silly voices, puns and wit where the order of the day. Hatch admitted from the start that silly voices were beyond his range, modulating his own style accordingly.
As the master administrator, always recognising that creative people were the most important, Hatch steered the way for such shows as Just A Minute, Weekending and I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue.
Hatch read theology at Queen’s College, Cambridge, but was lured by the chaps in Footlights including Oddie, Cleese, Graham Chapman and Tim Brooke-Taylor, finally graduating in Education.
He then appeared in a touring revue called Plinths, where his managerial style immediately asserted itself, bringing some order to his anarchic pals.
In 1964, he was taken on by the BBC, moving seamlessly from performance to production. His senior appointments included head of Light Entertainment (Radio); controller Radio 2, controller Radio 4, director of programmes (radio), vice-chairman BBC Enterprises, advisor to the director-general. He was knighted in 2004.
He knew the game well and, at a festival in 1993, he said: “You have two chances to make this speech, once on the way up and once on the way down.
“Welcome to my second speech.”
He married twice and had three children.
David Hatch, radio man; born May 7, 1939, died June 13, 2007
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| BBC 7 Newsletter item about David Hatch |
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The following appears in the Friday, 15th June edition of BBC 7's newsletter:
"I'm afraid there's some sad news, which some of you will already be aware of: Sir David Hatch died this week at the age of 68, following a long illness. Sir David was an actor, writer and later producer for “I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again”, the irreverent radio comedy series which ran between 1964 and 1973. The show was a forerunner to “The Goodies” and “I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue”. BBC 7 listeners will be more than familiar with his work, with programmes such as “Doctor In The House” and “What Ho! Jeeves” under his belt and in our schedules, to name but two.
Jenny Abramsky, director of BBC Audio and Music, said: 'David Hatch was one of the greats of BBC Radio. He was a performer, a leader and an inspirer of people. He led the radio Light Entertainment department with verve and joy.' She also said that Hatch modernised and ensured that radio thrived in an increasingly competitive world.
As a tribute we’ll be re-running “Wireless Wise”, starting on Tuesday 10th July – and his edition of “Radio Heads”, although the date for this has yet to be confirmed."
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| David Hatch, RIP |
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We're extremely sad to report that Sir David Hatch has passed away. He's best known to Goodies fans as part of the cast of I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again along with Tim, Graeme, Bill, John Cleese and Jo Kendall. David was also involved in the creation of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.
Here is the BBC Press release about this sad news:
Tributes to Sir David Hatch
Sir David Hatch, distinguished former Managing Director of BBC Network Radio, died last night after a long illness. He was 68-years-old.
David made his name performing alongside John Cleese and the Goodies team in the early Sixties with the Cambridge Footlights revue, then joining BBC Radio in 1964 as an actor and writer for I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again.
In 1965, he was appointed as Radio Light Entertainment producer, devising and producing programmes such as Week Ending, Just A Minute and the radio versions of Doctor In The House and What Ho! Jeeves.
During his career at the BBC, David was Director of Radio Programmes, Controller of Radios 2 and 4 respectively, Head of Radio Light Entertainment, Radio Network Editor in Manchester and Executive Producer of Programme Development.
In 1987 he became Managing Director of Network Radio and in January 1993 was appointed Adviser to the Director-General.
He was knighted in 2004.
David Hatch was one of the greats of BBC Radio.
"He was a performer, a leader and an inspirer of people. He led the radio Light Entertainment department with verve and joy.
"He was a terrific Controller of both Radio 2 and Radio 4 and as Managing Director of BBC Radio he modernised and ensured that radio thrived in an increasingly competitive world.
"No one in BBC Radio has ever had such a wide ranging and successful career."
The story has also been reported by BBC News:
Radio performer Hatch dies at 68
Broadcaster and former head of BBC network radio Sir David Hatch has died at the age of 68.
He made his name performing alongside John Cleese and The Goodies in 1960s radio show Sorry I'll Read That Again.
Hatch went on to produce a number of shows including Just A Minute, before moving into management where he went on to become head of BBC radio.
He later returned to broadcasting, acting as regular chairman of Radio 4 gameshow Wireless Wise from 1999-2003.
West End appearance
Hatch appeared in other recent BBC radio programmes, including The Archive Hour in 2006, which was a celebration of the BBC's Broadcasting House headquarters.
He met Cleese and Goodies regulars Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie at Cambridge, where they were active in the Footlights theatrical society.
As a cast member of 1963 revue show Plinths, he appeared on London's West End stage and Broadway, where it was renamed Cambridge Circus.
Hatch's career as a BBC radio executive also saw him serve as head of radio light entertainment and controller of Radio 2 and Radio 4.
He left the corporation in 1996 and was knighted in 2003 for his subsequent work in the criminal justice system.
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Posted by lisa at 13/06/2007 09:00 GMT |
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| reminder about tickets for ISIHAC Official Stage Tour |
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Tickets for I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue - The Official Stage Tour (featuring Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer, Jeremy Hardy, & Humphrey
Lyttelton) are selling fast but still available for the shows in Nottingham, Northampton, Birmingham (Sept. 19th only), Ipswich, Oxford, and Brighton.
The following dates have sold out: Leeds, Tunbridge Wells, Birmingham (Sept.
18th), and Reading,
The complete tour schedule and booking details are available in our FAQ.
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Posted by lisa at 12/06/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| "Current Puns" |
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Thanks to PunHeaven for posting this in the forums:
Stephen Fry presented a short doco on the history and psychology of puns on
Radio 4 this week. It contains a clip of an Uxbridge English Dictionary round from "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue". The show, called "Current Puns" is available on Listen Again.
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Posted by lisa at 10/06/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| two "Springwatch" articles |
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Here are a couple of Springwatch-related articles. The first, from The Sun, says that "Springwatch" is matching Big Brother 8 in the primetime ratings (with approximately 4 million viewers each) and beating BB in late-night (90,000 viewers for Big Brother compared to 300,000 for Springwatch Nightshift).
There's a small photo of Bill at the end of the article.
An article at
icWales includes a quote from Bill talking about "Springwatch".
The text from the two articles can be seen by using the "click here for more" link below.
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Posted by lisa at 07/06/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| tickets still on sale for most shows in the ISIHAC Stage Tour |
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Tickets for I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue - The Official Stage Tour (featuring Tim & Graeme) are still available for many dates, but they are selling fast. We previously mentioned that Tunbridge Wells had sold out. It appears Leeds, Reading, and the Sept. 18th date in Birmingham may have sold out as well. It might be worth checking with the box office directly for those shows, in case there have been returns.
The complete tour details and schedule are available in our FAQ.
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Posted by lisa at 29/05/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| ISIRTA boxset at ABC shop |
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Thanks to Kerry for posting the following to the goodies-l mailing list:
The ABC online shop is advertising the ISIRTA boxset (volume 1-4) for $99: http://shop.abc.net.au/browse/product.asp?productid=240794
Here's a description from that site:
From the groundbreaking radio comedy series I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again comes this hilarious new audiobook. This 4 volume collection presents 15 episodes spanning the series' entire run, from the pilot to the special 25th anniversary double episode.
The irreverent series, which ran between 1964 and 1973, is a mix of quickfire sketches, bad puns, humorous songs and TV & cinema parodies. Starring performers who went on to become household names, including John Cleese and Bill Oddie, it quickly developed a cult following and was the forerunner of The Goodies and I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.
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Posted by lisa at 24/05/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| "Doctor at Large" DVD to be released in the UK on 28 May |
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"Doctor at Large - The Complete Series" is scheduled to be released in the UK on May 28th. Graeme and Bill were among the scriptwriters for this series.
Here's a link to the title at Sendit.com (who currently have pre-order price of £17.89 while Amazon.co.uk's is £22.49) -http://www.sendit.com/dvd/item/7001000132691. The set also will be available from other major retailers.
If you order it online be sure you get the TV series and not the 1957 movie "Doctor at Large", which is also available on DVD. Just look for "The Complete Series" in the title.
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Posted by lisa at 23/05/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| two Bill articles |
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Here are a couple of articles mentioning Bill. The first is from the Birmingham Mail, May 17, 2007. I don't believe it's available online. The second has a passing mention of Bill Oddie inadvertently being involved in a university upgrading it's high-speed network (use the "click here for more link" to read that one).
Beeline for the museum.
(from the Birmingham Mail)
A LEADING Birmingham beekeeper has teamed up with celebrity conservationist Bill Oddie to keep the British bee buzzing.
Nigel Fleming, president of Birmingham Beekeepers, joined Oddie at the Natural History Museum to celebrate the opening of the historic site's first ever bee tree.
The 3m high tree trunk beehive has been installed in the museum's wildlife garden to help educate children on the importance of honey bees so they build their own bee-friendly habitats.
They can watch around 15,000 bees generate a potential five tonnes of honey every year behind a sealed perspex.
Thousands of schoolchildren nationwide are also set to have lessons on the good work bees do in the environment and producing honey and beeswax.
Bill Oddie said: "The British honeybee population has taken a bit of a bashing over the winter and their numbers need a boost."
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Posted by lisa at 21/05/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| "Springwatch" article from The Sun |
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An article about "Springwatch" appears in the May 22nd edition of The Sun; the online version is here
I'll cut & paste the text below, but I suggest you visit the website as it includes a nice photo of Bill with a small bird perched on his hand.
Spring is in the air once again
By ONLINE REPORTER
May 22, 2007
SPRINGWATCH returns to BBC2 next week for another celebration of British wildlife – and presenter Simon King can’t wait.
“Although not exotic by definition, British wildlife is just as compelling as anywhere else in the world and, because it’s right on our doorstep, it’s something that everybody can engage with,” says Simon.
“Beyond that, I think that people love the individual life stories of the creatures that we follow and, although the word ‘soap opera’ is much over-used, it is entirely appropriate if you look at the daily lives of say a blue tit family or a golden eagle.
“What happens from one day to the next becomes utterly addictive because you begin to really care about the individual creatures and that makes a huge difference.”
The third year of Springwatch will see Simon heading to Islay in the Hebrides, while Bill Oddie and Kate Humble will be stationed on an organic farm in Devon.
They’ll be keeping an eye out for barn owls, badgers and buzzards, while Gordon Buchanan will be checking out urban foxes in Glasgow.
The innovative show uses tiny cameras and miles of optical cable, meaning that viewers get to see animals doing what they do without any disturbances from camera crews.
“We’re hoping to follow golden eagles and hen harriers on Islay, although we just can’t predict half of what we might see,” he says.
“That’s the beauty of being able to follow animals as individuals with live TV - nobody knows what this year’s engaging tale will be”
Springwatch, Monday 28 June, BBC2
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Posted by lisa at 21/05/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| ISIRTA & "Hello Cheeky" episodes on BBC 7 Sat, 19 May |
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BBC 7 will be presenting "Comedy Greats: Listeners' Choice" tomorrow (Saturday, 19 May). This selection of programmes was voted for by BBC 7 listeners as their favourite radio comedies. The lineup includes a 1973 episode of "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again" (with all three Goodies) and a
1979 episode of "Hello Cheeky" (starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer, and John Junkin).
The show airs Saturday at 9am, 8pm and 3am (it can be heard online at www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7). It will be available for a week after broadcast from Listen Again.
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Posted by lisa at 18/05/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| broadcast dates for "About a Dog" series 2 |
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Graeme's just passed along the broadcast dates for the second series of "About a Dog", a series he wrote for BBC Radio 4. The show will air on that channel on Tuesdays at 6:30pm starting July 3rd. There will be six episodes in series 2.
"About a Dog" stars Alan Davies. Information about the first series, which consisted of three episodes and was originally broadcast in 2004, can be found on the Above the Title Productions Ltd. website.
UPDATE: thanks to Alison Bean for this this link to info about the second series.
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Posted by lisa at 17/05/2007 00:30 GMT |
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| this week's list of Goodies-related shows |
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The full list of upcoming shows of interest to Goodies fans can be seen by using the "click here for more" link below. Here are a few highlights:
* Mondays - "The Unbelievable Truth" on BBC Radio 4 at 18:30 (with repeats the following Sunday around noon). Graeme will appear in some episodes of this new comedy panel game which he created with ISIHAC Producer Jon Naismith. It can be heard online from www.bbc.co.uk/radio4. Each episode is available for a week after broadcast from Listen Again
* Mon, 7 May - "Loose Women" on ITV1 at 12:30 will include an appearance from Bill.
* Mon, 7 May - "Play it Again" on BBC 1 at 19:00 with Bill (possibly at 18:00 on BBC Wales). The program's page is here
* Sat, 19 May - "The Goodies" on Paramount 2. Two episodes will be repeated starting at 23:45.
* Mon, 21 May - the new series of "Springwatch with Bill Oddie" (thanks to Sosia spotting this)
* Sun, 3 June - "Star Portraits with Rolf Harris" with Bill.
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Posted by lisa at 06/05/2007 20:30 GMT |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Tour - official tour dates! |
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The following is the official tour announcement from the "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" mailing list.
Please note that the following dates are currently on sale: Leeds, Tunbridge Wells (sold out), Birmingham (Sept 19th only), Oxford and Reading. It appears the first Birmigham date is almost sold out so watch for the Sept 18th date to go on sale soon.
We'll pass along updates as tickets go on sale for the other dates. The tour schedule in our FAQ (at the easy to remember URL www.isihac-live.com will be updated as information becomes available.
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Dear I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Mailing List Member,
Please find below a list of dates and venues for a short (10 date) tour of "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" in August, September and October this year.
Not all the venues have their tickets on sale yet, though one (The Assembly Hall Theatre Tunbridge Wells) has very nearly sold out as they have sent out a brochure.
Apologies to those in the far North, far West, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland - this is just a little tour and we've deliberately booked venues that keep travelling to a minimum for the teams. If all goes well, the plan is to mount a longer tour in 2008 which we hope will be more extensive.
The show is called "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue - The Official Stage Tour" and will be a kind of 'best of' show, featuring favourite rounds from the past 35 years. The guest panellist will be Jeremy Hardy. The show will not be recorded for broadcast on Radio 4.
You have been sent this email as we believe you have requested to receive information related to the Radio 4 programme 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue'. If this is not the case, please email us and we will unsubscribe you from our mailing list.
Finally, the new series of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue will begin transmission on Radio 4 on Monday 4th June at 1830.
Best wishes
Jon Naismith
Producer, ISIHAC
TOUR DATES:
Thursday 30 August LEEDS GRAND THEATRE
Show starts 7.30pm, ends approx 10.15pm
Tickets: £12.50 - £27.50
Box Office Tel: 0870 121 4901
http://www.leedsgrandtheatre.com/
Sunday 9 September NOTTINGHAM THEATRE ROYAL
Show starts 7.30pm, ends approx 10.15pm
Tickets: £14.00 - £25.00
Box Office 0115 989 5555
www.royalcentre-nottingham.co.uk
Monday 10 September NORTHAMPTON DERNGATE
Show starts 7.30pm, ends approx 10.15pm
Tickets: TBC
Box Office : 01604 624 811
www.royalandderngate.co.uk
Monday 17 September Assembly Hall Theatre TUNBRIDGE WELLS
Show starts 7.30pm, ends approx 10.15pm
Tickets: £24.50
Box Office: 01892 530613
www.assemblyhalltheatre.co.uk
Tuesday 18 September BIRMINGHAM HIPPODROME
Show starts 7.30pm, ends approx 10.15pm
Tickets: £14.50 - £26.50
Box Office: 0121 622 7486
www.birmingham-hippodrome.com
Wednesday 19 September BIRMINGHAM HIPPODROME
Show starts 7.30pm, ends approx 10.15pm
Tickets: £14.50 - £26.50
Box Office: 0121 622 7486
www.birmingham-hippodrome.com
Tuesday 25 September IPSWICH REGENT
Show starts 7.30pm, ends approx 10.15pm
Tickets: £20 - £22.50
Box Office: 01473 433 100
https://online.ipswich.gov.uk/eSROIpswich/
Wednesday 26 September NEW THEATRE OXFORD
Show starts 7.30pm, ends approx 10.15pm
Tickets: £20 - £22.50
Box Office Tel: 0870 606 3500
www.livenation.co.uk/venues/venue.aspx?vrid=648&&shortcut=oxford
Friday 5 October READING HEXAGON (READING COMEDY FESTIVAL)
Show starts 7.30pm, ends approx 10.15pm
Tickets: £22 - £24
Box Office: 0118 960 6060
www.readingarts.com/thehexagon
www.readingcomedyfestival.com
Monday 8 October BRIGHTON DOME (BRIGHTON COMEDY FESTIVAL)
Show starts 7.30pm, ends approx 10.15pm
Tickets: £20 - £23
Box Office 01273 709709
www.brightondome.org
www.brightoncomedyfestival.com
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Posted by lisa at 01/05/2007 01:30 GMT |
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| guest panelists on ISIHAC Vol. 10 |
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Here's another update about "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue 10", which is due to be released on May 7th (as a 2 CD set in the UK and as a download available from many digital retailers).
Besides the regular panelists (Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, and Barry Cryer) the set will include contributions from guest panelists Jeremy Hardy, Ross Noble, Andy Hamilton and Rob Brydon.
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Posted by lisa at 30/04/2007 09:30 GMT |
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| accolades for ISIHAC & GWH |
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Congratulations to the team behind the most recent "Giles Wemmbley Hogg"
series, including Graeme Garden, for winning Silver in the 2007 Sony Radio Academy Awards Comedy category. The series, entitled "Giles Wemmbley Hogg Geht Zum FussballWeltmeisterschaft Weg!" was written by Marcus Brogstocke & Jeremy Salsby with additional material by Graeme.
Here's a blurb about the show from the judges, taken from
http://www.radioawards.org/winners07/win07.htm: "Brilliantly scripted and characterised, this programme was funny from the very start. The judges noted the skill with which the writers incorporated highly topical references, and they warmed to this well-meaning but useless idiot."
Also of note - according to the 27 April 2007 edition of the BBC 7 newsletter, their repeats of "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" (featuring Tim & Graeme) ranked at number 6 in the Listen Again BBC radio figures for March 2007! I'm sure the fan club members contributed to that success.
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Posted by lisa at 30/04/2007 00:30 GMT |
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| ISIHAC show in Reading now on sale |
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The Reading date in the I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue stage tour is now being advertised. It is at The Hexagon on Friday, October 5th. Details are available here
Just a reminder that the full tour schedule is due to be announced in early May. The dates that have already gone on sale can be found in the club FAQ
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Posted by lisa at 30/04/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| new date for Bill's episode of "Play it Again" |
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It appears Bill's episode of "Play It Again" has been rescheduled for Monday, 7th May on BBC 1 at 19:00.
For our members in Wales, please check your local listings as BBC 1 Wales may be broadcasting the show an hour earlier, at 18:00.
Here's a listing:
"Play it Again" - Series that follows six public figures as they pursue their dreams of becoming musicians, capturing the trials and tribulations they face during the process and watching how they fare as they dedicate themselves to a rigorous musical regime of lessons, practising and public performances. Bill Oddie learns to play the guitar.
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Posted by lisa at 27/04/2007 12:00 GMT |
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| "The Unbelievable Truth" article from the Guardian website |
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"The Unbelievable Truth", a new comedy panel game devised by Graeme Garden and ISIHAC producer John Naismith, started its first full series yesterday (a pilot episode aired last year). Graeme will appear in some episodes of the series.
The show airs on BBC Radio 4 on Monday evenings, with a repeat around noon on Sundays (check your listings for the exact start time, as the Sunday ones tend to vary by a few minutes). The series can also be heard online at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy; each episode will be available for a week after broadcast via Listen Again.
The following article about the first episode in the new series appears on the Guardian's website
....Unbelievably: a new Radio 4 Panel Show
By Ben Dowell / Radio 10:20am
Last night Radio 4 showcased its new kids on the panel show block - the show Unbelievable Truth hosted by David Mitchell and featuring a crop of young comedians including Marcus Brigstocke and Tony Hawks. Did you like it? Do you think it will give old favourites such as Just a Minute and I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue a run for their money?
I say old favourites, but the show was devised by panel show veterans Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, long standing panellist and producer respectively of the anarchic R4 show I'm Sorry I haven't a Clue. But what was different about this show was that it appeared (at last) to be trying to give the young pups a panel show platform, something that may even last the decades that "Clue" and "Just a Minute" has been entertaining Radio 4 listeners.
Personally I thought it was a neat, if limited premise, ably performed by last night's panel of Frankie Boyle, Tony Hawks and Marcus Brigstocke (who seems to have a permanent berth on the station these days, though he's probably not as ubiquitous as Peep Show's David Mitchell).
The premise, in case you didn't catch it, sees each panellist deliver a lecture on a given topic (Elizabeth I, Cats, The Human Body, Morris Dancing..anything really), which must be entirely untrue, except for five unlikely facts... The job of their opponents is to challenge if they think they've detected an item of truth. Panellists lined up for this first series include Graeme Garden, Alan Davies, Jo Brand, Jeremy Hardy, Clive Anderson, Tony Hawks, Neil Mullarkey, Sandi Toksvig, and Marcus Brigstocke.
As I say, I thought it worked well. Mitchell was an assured and witty host. But there is a danger that the format, even with the entertaining asides, could feel a bit samey after a while. Clue is all over the place (joyously so) and Just a Minute (in which panellists have to keep talking on a subject without repetition or deviation for 60 seconds) may be a simple format but it benefits from the fact that the hothouse of each minute keeps all of the contestants on their toes, even when panellists such as Paul Merton are engaging in their fantastically absurdist flights of fancy.
Unbelievable Truth meandered a bit, maybe not enough, and it seemed a little too obvious to me to detect when they were lying and telling the truth.
But it's new. And shouldn't be strangled at birth. And at least comedy on Radio 4 is looking to the future - and away from the dark days of five or so years ago when all those 11.30pm programmes almost made one lose the will to live. And this could bed in nicely. Anyway. Enough 'Ands' from me. Over to you.
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Posted by lisa at 24/04/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| addtional info about ISIHAC Vol. 10 |
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The club has learned that "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue 10" will be available from digital retailers as well as in shops; this is good news for our non-UK members who don't wish to order the title from overseas (though vendors such as www.Amazon.co.uk will ship it internationally).
ISIHAC Volume 10 will be published by BBC Audiobooks on 7 May 2007. Estimated running time is 2 hour 35 minutes on 2 CDs.
The CD ISBN is: 9781405677738
The Download ISBN is: 9781405667036
Here's the info from the press release:
Four compilations of the hugely popular and award-winning BBC Radio 4 series.
Inspired nonsense and pointless revelry – it’s time for another helping of the antidote to panel games, I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue. In this tenth collection, the gang return for further moments of mayhem, puns and one-liners; not forgetting a healthy dose of innuendo and double entendre. Regulars Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden – and special guests are given silly things to do by chairman Humphrey Lyttelton.
So join Humph and company in these perennial favourites: New Definitions, Swanee Kazoo, One Song to the Tune of Another, Sound Charades and last, but certainly not least, Mornington Crescent. Other exciting rounds include Just a Minim, Swankers and 84 Chicken Cross Road.
With the lovely Samantha, bringing up the rear with her laser display board, this compilation is especially for you, Mrs. Trellis of North Wales.
I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue 10 will be available from all good bookshops, online at www.bbcshop.com or by BBC Audiobooks direct mail on 0800 136 919
This title is also available to purchase as a download from digital retailers such as Audible, Audioville, iTunes, Mediabay, 7 Digital, Simply Audiobooks, Spoken Network, TuneTribe, Plays on the Net and Wippit.
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Posted by lisa at 24/04/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| ISIHAC Volume 10 to be released May 7th |
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"I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Vol. 10" is scheduled to be released in the UK on May 7th.
Amazon.co.uk shows the cover (which features a new design compared to volumes 1-9), plus this description of the 2-CD set at this link:
"Four compilations of the hugely popular and award-winning BBC Radio 4 series. 'Risky, rude, brilliantly written and superbly performed' - "The Judges", Sony Radio Academy Awards. Inspired nonsense and pointless revelry
- it's time for another helping of the antidote to panel games, "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue". In this tenth collection, the gang return for further moments of mayhem, puns and one-liners; not forgetting a healthy dose of innuendo and double entendre. Regulars: Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden - and special guests are given silly things to do by chairman Humphrey Lyttelton. So join Humph and company in these perennial favourites:
New Definitions, Swanee Kazoo, One Song to the Tune of Another, Sound Charades and last, but certainly not least, Mornington Crescent. Other exciting rounds include Just a Minim, Swankers and 84 Chicken Cross Road.
With the lovely Samantha, bringing up the rear with her laser display board, this compilation is especially for you, Mrs. Trellis of North Wales."
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Posted by lisa at 21/04/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| ISIHAC tour update / "Old Harry's Game" recordings |
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According to a message sent to the "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" mailing list, the tour will take place from late August through early October and will visit Leeds, Birmingham, Nottingham, Northampton, Oxford, Brighton, Reading, Ipswich and Tunbridge Wells. Full details are to be sent in early May.
Here's the full message, which also includes information about getting tickets to attend London-based recordings of a new series of "Old Harry's Game", starring frequent ISIHAC guest Andy Hamilton. As there was an enthusiastic discussion of this show recently on the club's goodies-l mailing list I know this information will be of interest to many of our members.
Dear I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Mailing List Member
Andy Hamilton has asked me to let you know he's shortly recording another series of the highly acclaimed and Sony Award winning 'Old Harry's Game' and there are free tickets available.
Please find details below.
Meanwhile we are planning tour dates for I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue's first stage show in 35 years. Jeremy Hardy will be the guest, and we'll be visiting Leeds, Birmingham, Nottingham, Northampton, Oxford, Brighton, Reading, Ipswich and Tunbridge Wells in late August, September and early October.
Expect full datails in early May.
If all goes well we'll do more dates in 2008, visiting other parts of the country.
With best wishes
Jon Naismith
Producer, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
FED UP WITH ORGANISED RELIGION? THEN COME AND JOIN SATAN AT THE DRILL HALL IN LONDON
"CLUE" REGULAR ANDY HAMILTON RETURNS AS THE DEVIL IN HIS AWARD WINNING RADIO FOUR SERIES "OLD HARRY'S GAME".
ALSO STARRING ANNETTE CROSBIE, ROBERT DUNCAN AND JIMMY MULVILLE
THE RECORDINGS (2 EPISODES EACH) ARE ON TUESDAY APRIL 24TH, TUESDAY MAY 1ST AND FRIDAY MAY 4TH. ENTRANCE TO BUILDING FROM 6.30 PM. RECORDING STARTS AT 7.30 PM AND ENDS APPROX 9.15 PM.
THE DRILL HALL IS AT 16 CHENIES STREET NEAR GOODGE ST TUBE.
TO APPLY FOR TICKETS PLEASE PHONE 0870 901 1227 OR GO TO WWW.BBC.CO.UK/WHATSON/TICKETS
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Posted by lisa at 12/04/2007 01:00 GMT |
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| a look at more Bill portraits (plus this week's list of Goodies-related shows) |
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Two items of note from the full list, which can be seen by using the "click here for more" link at the bottom of this box:
- Paramount Comedy 2 has scheduled Goodies repeats for the evenings of Saturday, April 7th & Sunday, April 8th in addition to the Friday night screenings this week.
- We're still waiting for the broadcast date for "Star Portraits" with Bill (let us know if you find it!). In the meantime, you can know see Bill's three portraits on the show's official website here
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Posted by lisa at 03/04/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| "Play It Again" and "Star Portraits" with Bill |
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Thanks to Wackywales for the following news!
The series "Play it Again", in which celebrities learn to play musical instruments, will start its run on BBC 1 Sunday, 25th March at 8pm. Bill will appear in an upcoming episode. The first two episodes (on 25 March and 1 April) feature Jo Brand and Frank Skinner. We'll watch the listings for Bill's appearance, in which he learns to play the electric guitar.
"Star Portraits with Rolf Harris" will also feature Bill in an upcoming episode. As the show also airs on BBC 1 on Sunday nights Wackywales suggested we might be in for a Bill double-bill (um, no bird pun intended ). "Star Portraits" is a series in which 3 professional artists paint 3 completely different styles of portrait of a famous person. Some samples of previous work can be found at http://www.starportraits.co.uk/programme.htm
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Posted by lisa at 20/03/2007 23:00 GMT |
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| ISIHAC news - Humph on "The South Bank Show" & fall tour |
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Here's an email from the ISIHAC mailing list about this weekend's edition of "The South Bank Show" featuring Humphrey Lyttelton. It also mentions the plan for the Clue live tour (mentioned in an earlier news item) to start in the fall.
Dear I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Mailing List Member
Just to let you know that Humphrey Lyttelton will be the subject of The South Bank Show on Sunday March 25th at 11.10pm. The programme will feature clips of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, plus interviews with Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden.
Here's a link:
http://www.itv.com/page.asp?partid=2701
Also, those who've found it difficult to get tickets to see a recording of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue over the past few series or more, will be pleased to hear that we will be touring a special 'live' and not for broadcast version of the show in September this year. The show will be a sort of 'Best of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue' with Jeremy Hardy as our special guest. We will send venue details when we have them.
With best wishes
Jon Naismith, Producer ISIHAC
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Posted by lisa at 19/03/2007 23:00 GMT |
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| upcoming radio show with Graeme |
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I'm afraid the details about this are a bit sketchy, but you can earn your wig spotters badge by helping to find the info.
Graeme recorded a radio programme on the topic of Scottish vs English humour. It is due to be broadcast one Saturday morning in the near future on BBC Radio 4. We'll try to find out the title and air date.
ADDENDUM
Very shortly after posting the above cscamp earned the badge by spotting the following:
Take An Englishman And A Scotsman
Saturday 31 March 10.30-11.00am
BBC RADIO 4 (www.bbc.co.uk/radio4)
Graeme Garden presents a tongue-in-cheek look at what the English and Scots have in common and what they don't.
With a rich mix of comedy clips and contributions from such eminent figures as Ronnie Corbett and Stanley Baxter, Graeme discovers why there's a real difference in humour north and south of the border.
Graeme, who was born in Aberdeen and has spent most of his working life south of the border, takes an intriguing and entertaining journey through the comedy stereotypes of England and Scotland, from the "bowler-hatted toffs" of the south to the "kilted sporran-wearers" of the north.
Producer/Mark Rickards
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Posted by lisa at 19/03/2007 23:00 GMT |
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| this week's list of Goodies-related shows |
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Use the "click here for more" link below to see this week's list of Goodies-related TV & radio shows.
The highlight, of course, are repeats of "The Goodies" series 9 on Paramount Comedy on Friday nights. For those of us who don't get that satellite channel, those episodes will be released on DVD in the UK next Monday as The Goodies - The Complete LWT Series.
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Posted by lisa at 18/03/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| Bradford Film Festival to show 1975 program with Tim |
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The Bradford International Film Festival, which runs from 9-24 March, includes a section called "TV Heaven" (more details at
http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/bff/2007/TVHeaven.asp).
On their schedule for Sunday, 18 March at 3.25pm is "Shades of Green: The Overnight Bag", whose cast includes Tim. Here's the description from the festival website at
http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/bff/2007/film_detail.asp?filmid=6719:
Shades of Greene: The Overnight Bag
Dir. Peter Hammond
GB, 1975, 15 mins
Cast: Tim Brooke-Taylor, Eleanor Summerfield, Dudley Sutton, Joyce Carey, Diana Berriman, Daphne Lawson, Neville Phillips
The Goodies' Tim Brooke-Taylor plays Henry, a seemingly mild-mannered (if somewhat secretive) man determined to get his bag past curious plane passengers and Heathrow Customs, in this sinister episode from the Shades of Greene series of Graham Greene adaptations.
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Posted by lisa at 14/03/2007 22:00 GMT |
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| Amazon.co.uk and the ISIRTA CDs |
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For some reason the new "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again" CDs, which were released last month, have disappeared from www.amazon.co.uk's site. BBC Audiobooks are working to correct the problem. The CDs should be available from Amazon again in the near future.
If you're looking for other online vendors from which to purchase the CDs in the meantime they can be obtained from other BBC Audiobooks dealers such as www.play.com, www.bbcshop.com, and the websites of major retailers such as HMV and Virgin Megastores.
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Posted by lisa at 11/03/2007 22:00 GMT |
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| ISIRTA volumes 1-4 to be released in Australia in June |
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Thanks to Jane Donnelly (AKA cscamp) for contributing the following.
She wrote to BBC Audiobooks recently asking if the ABC Shops will be stocking the new "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again" CDs. BBC Worldwide Sydney responded: "I am replying to your email to the UK of Feb 12th. The catalogue from BBC Audiobooks is distributed in Australia by ABC Audio. Although several volumes from both series have been available here previously on audiocassette nothing is available at the moment on CD. The good news though, is that in June we are releasing an 8 CD set (Volumes 1-4) of I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again ISBN 9781405677035 It will be available through ABC Shops and Centres, and any store can order it in through Allen & Unwin if an ABC Shop isn't convenient for you."
Jane wrote back to ask about ISIRTA Volume 5 and was told BBC Worldwide is waiting to see how the volume 1-4 box set performs at retail first.
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Posted by lisa at 09/03/2007 23:00 GMT |
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| this week's list of Goodies-related shows |
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Here's a list of upcoming shows of interest to Goodies fans. "(NEW)" indicates shows added since the last update (some of which may be repeats). Feel free to let us know about anything that should be added to the list - contributions are always welcome!
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(NEW) * AVAILABLE THRU FRIDAY - Tim & Graeme's interview on "Steve Wright in the Afternoon" is available from BBC Radio 2's Listen Again at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/wright/. Select the "Friday" show from the "Listen Again" box. The interview starts around the 1 hour 20 minute mark.
* Fridays - "The Goodies" is being repeated on UK satellite channel Paramount Comedy as double-bills starting at 9:00pm (repeated a few hours later at 1:00am). They are showing the LWT series (series 9).
(NEW) * Thurs, 8 March - "Wogan: Now and Then" repeats an interview with Bill on UKTV Gold at 4:45 and UKTV Gold Plus 1 at 5:45
(NEW) * Thurs, 15 March - "How to Watch Wildlife" with Bill is being repeated on BBC 2 at 19:30.
(NEW) * Sun, 18 March - one of Graeme's appearances on "Holby City" (series 5 episode 20) will be repeated by UKTV Gold at 4:15 and on UKTV Gold Plus 1 an hour later.
(NEW) * Sun, 25 March - "The South Bank Show" on ITV at 23:10 profiles "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" Chairman Humphrey Lyttelton. The show is slated to include interviews with Tim, Graeme, and Barry Cryer.
* Sundays - ABC Radio National is broadcasting "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" (with Tim and Graeme) on Sunday mornings at 5.30am.
* Mondays - BBC 7 airs old episodes of "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" (with Tim and Graeme). Each episode is available via Listen Again for six days after broadcast. The show can be heard worldwide via the internet from www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7 on the day of broadcast as well as for six days afterwards using Listen Again.
* Nightly - "Bill Oddie's Animal House" on The Baby Channel (Sky channel 285, http://www.babychanneltv.com/schedule.htm) nightly at 8:30pm (thanks for Fiona Mikiel for this info)
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Posted by lisa at 03/03/2007 22:30 GMT |
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| ISIHAC to tour - at some point |
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Recently there were a few articles about the "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" cast (including Tim & Graeme) wanting to take the show on tour. Here are a few representative examples: http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2007/02/18/5026/clueless and http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_
id=436795&in_page_id=1770&in_a_source= (thanks to Andrew Burford for
pointing out the Mail on Sunday piece).
A new article appeared on Chortle today (at http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2007/02/21/5038/bbc_gives_them_a_clue) saying the following:
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BBC gives them a Clue
Radio show to tour after dispute settled
The team behind I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue will now go on tour - after the BBC relented about the use of the name.
Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Humphrey Lyttelton had been told they couldn't perform the tour commercially because the corporation owned the rights.
However, after Cryer spoke out about his disappointment, the corporation has now struck a deal to allow the show on the road.
A Radio 4 spokesman said: 'We're pleased to confirm that the I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue team are able to go on tour under the banner of the Clue name.
'We have been talking about how to make this happen for some time and are delighted at the positive result.'
Cryer had accused the corporation of being 'bloody stingy' about the proposed tour.
The few radio recordings each year are an instant sell-out - and the team can now expect to sell thousands of tickets to live shows.
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Obviously it is *much* too soon for there to be any specific dates. However, I'm sure the club will be sent the information when a tour is booked.
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Posted by lisa at 21/02/2007 00:30 GMT |
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| additional info about new ISIRTA CDs |
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The nice folks at BBC Audiobooks have provided the following info about the "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again" CDs which are scheduled to be released next Monday, 5 February:
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Starring John Cleese, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie, I’m Sorry I’ll Read That Again is a mix of quickfire sketches, bad puns, humorous songs, and TV & cinema parodies. The series, which ran from 1964 to 1973, quickly developed a cult following and was the forerunner of The Goodies and I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.
Volumes 1 – 4
8 CDs Duration: 8 hours ISBN: 9781405677035
Available for the first time on CD, fifteen episodes of the classic radio comedy sketch series. Originally released on cassette, the episodes are now presented in chronological order. They include the special 25th anniversary double episode from 1989.
Volume 5
2 CDs Duration: 2 hours ISBN: 9781405676854
Also available to download ISBN: 9781405679183
Due to popular demand, and after a long break, a fifth volume of episodes from the irreverent radio comedy series which ran between 1964 and 1973.
I’m Sorry I’ll Read That Again will be available from all good bookshops, online at www.bbcshop.com or by BBC Audiobooks direct mail on 0800 136 919
This title is also available to purchase as a download from digital retailers such as Audible, Audioville, iTunes, Mediabay, 7 Digital, Simply Audiobooks, Spoken Network, TuneTribe, Plays on the Net and Wippit.
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As mentioned in the forums and other news items, other online vendors (including Amazon.co.uk and Play.com) are also selling the CDs. Australian ISIRTA fans can check with their local ABC Shops to see if they'll be stocking (or can order in) this title.
A listing of the selections on the various CDs can be found in the "click here for more" box.
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Posted by lisa at 01/02/2007 23:00 GMT |
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| "Hamish & Dougal" special / new "Doctor in the House" DVD |
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In this exceptionally busy week for Goodies news (tour updates plus announcements about a new DVD and Goodies repeats on Paramount Comedy 2) we missed listing the broadcast of the new "Hamish and Dougal's Burns Night Special" earlier this evening. However, the show will be available for a week via Listen Again from http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/pip/nd3b2/
Additional shows of interest to Goodies fans can be seen using the "click here for more" link.
Another item of note is that "Doctor in the House: Series 2" is scheduled to be released on DVD in the UK on February 5th. This collection includes the episode "Doctor on the Box" in which Graeme Garden has a very brief cameo.
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Posted by lisa at 24/01/2007 23:00 GMT |
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| update about "Raiders of the Lost Archives" |
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A few days ago we mentioned that "Raiders of the Lost Archive" would be airing over the next few Mondays. However, it appears ITV's plans have changed. The airdate for the next episode hasn't yet been announced. I'll keep a lookout for it (and if anyone else spots the info first let us know!)
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Posted by lisa at 18/01/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| updated list of Goodies-related shows |
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Here's a list of upcoming shows of interest to Goodies fans. "(NEW)" indicates shows added since the last update (some of which may be repeats). Please feel free to let us know about anything that should be added to the list.
(NEW) * Mondays, starting 16 Jan - "Raiders of the Lost Archive" on ITV at 22:00. Bill will be featured in an upcoming episode.
(UPDATED) * Mondays - "Hamish and Dougal: You'll Have Had Your Tea". BBC 7 is repeating the second series at 23:00. It can be heard worldwide from
www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7 both live and for six days after broadcast via Listen Again.
* Thursdays - "Bill Oddie Back in the USA" on BBC 2 at 20:30-21:00.
(UPDATED) * Sun, 21 Jan - "The Meaning of Life" on BBC 1 from 22:15 to 22:45, episode 2 of 3. Bill is listed as a contributor to this series, although it's possible he won't appear in every episode.
* Sundays - ABC Radio National is broadcasting "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" (with Tim and Graeme) on Sunday mornings at 5.30am.
* Mondays - BBC 7 airs old episodes of "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" (with Tim and Graeme). Each episode is available via Listen Again for six days after broadcast. The show can be heard worldwide via the internet from www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7 on the day of broadcast as well as for six days afterwards using Listen Again.
* Nightly - "Bill Oddie's Animal House" on The Baby Channel (Sky channel 285) nightly at 8pm (thanks for Fiona Mikiel for this info)
* Keep an eye out for Graeme's small cameo in an upcoming appearance of the "Agatha Christie's Maple" episode "Nemesis".
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Posted by lisa at 15/01/2007 20:00 GMT |
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| new "Hamish & Dougal" recording |
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The following information comes from the "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" mailing list:
FREE tickets are available to a special recording of 'Hamish & Dougal's Burns' Night Special', a special one-off recording for Burns' Night, featuring Barry and Graeme's famous Scotsmen as heard in the Sound Charades round on ISIHAC. Barry and Graeme are joined by Alison Steadman (who plays their housekeeper Mrs Naughtie) and Jeremy Hardy (who plays the local Laird). The show is being recorded on Sunday 21st January at the Shaw Theatre, 100-110 Euston Road, London NW1 2AJ. The recording starts at 7.30pm, with doors opening at 7pm. Tickets are available from BBC Audience Services by calling 020 8576 1227 or writing to BBC Audience Services, PO Box 3000, BBCTV Centre, London W12 7RJ. You'll need to call early as this show will be very popular. The show will be broadcast at 2302 on Burns Night (Thursday 25th January).
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Posted by lisa at 10/01/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| "Raiders of the Lost Archive" articles |
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Some articles have begun appearing about "Raiders of the Lost Archive", a series that will include an appearance by Bill. As mentioned in the November issue of the C&G, we believe his episode will include some of the recently recovered Goodies footage from "Engelbert with the Young Generation". The broadcast date hasn't been announced yet.
Here are the URLs:
http://blogs.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ianwylie/2007/01/raiders_of_the_los
t_archive.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2534533,00.html
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Posted by lisa at 07/01/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| new show with Bill (& other shows of interest) |
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Here's a list of upcoming shows of interest to Goodies fans. "(NEW)" indicates shows added since the last update (some of which may be repeats).
(NEW) * Mon, 8 Jan & Tues, 9 Jan - two episodes of "Holby City" in which Graeme Garden appeared are being repeated on BBC Prime. Each episode is scheduled to air at 14:00 and then be repeated at 03:00 the following morning.
(UPDATED) * Sat, 13 Jan - "When We Were Scouts", repeated on BBC 2 at 20:10.
A program to mark the 100th anniversary of the Scouting movement which will include "historical and classic comedy clips" including a contribution from The Goodies (presumably from the "Scoutrageous" episode).
* Thursdays starting 11 Jan - "Bill Oddie Back in the USA" on BBC 2 at 20:30-21:00.
(NEW) * Sun, 14 January - "The Meaning of Life" on BBC 1 from 22:15 to 22:45 with Bill. Here's a listing: "Is That It? (Part 1 of 3). Documentary series which offers some entertaining, original and thought-provoking theories as to how we got here, why and what happens when it's all over. Contributors including John Lydon, Fern Britton, John Humphrys, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, Bill Oddie, Dame Kelly Holmes and Alan Titchmarsh give their take on what life and death are all about."
Further items can be viewed by using the "click here for more" link.
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Posted by lisa at 07/01/2007 00:00 GMT |
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| Scouting special with Goodies clip, new show with Bill, and others |
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A list of radio & tv shows of interest to Goodies fans can be found by using the "click here for more" link.
Among the new items in this listing are:
- "When We Were Scouts", a special about Scouting's 100th anniversary which is slated to include a Goodies clip being broadcast Tues, 2 Jan on BBC 2 from 20:00-21:00.
- "Bill Oddie Back in the USA" on BBC 2 at 20:30-21:00. Here is a listing for this episode: "New York. Long before he became known as a wildlife presenter, Bill Oddie toured the USA with fellow Cambridge graduates John Cleese and Tim Brooke-Taylor. Now, 43 years on he's touring the States again to check out the creatures there wasn't time to see the first time round. The series starts in New York City where Bill discovers a wealth of wildlife from bin-raiding raccoons to a pair of celebrity red-tailed hawks who live on fashionable 5th Avenue."
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- a repeat of "The Unbelievable Truth" on Mon, 1 Jan on BBC Radio 4 at 12:00.
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Posted by lisa at 28/12/2006 13:30 GMT |
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| "The Best of ISIHAC", new shows with Bill, and others |
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A list of radio & tv shows of interest to Goodies fans can be found by using the "click here for more" link.
A few of the new additions to this week's list are:
- "The Best of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue", featuring material from shows recorded this year introduced by Humph (Mon, 25 Dec 18:30 BBC Radio 4, with a repeat the following Sunday)
- A "Springwatch Special" featuring highlights from Springwatch and Autumwatch (both with Bill) will be broadcast Tues, 26 Dec
- "Grumpy Old New Year" with Bill on Fri, 29 Dec; he's a partial listing: "Middle-aged celebrities have a good whinge about the New Year festivities - the compulsory partying, the staying up late, and even the fact that it's the one night of the year when being grumpy isn't allowed. "
Please note that the final episode of "One" will air this week; both Graeme and Bill are listed among the performers. If you've enjoyed the series why not let the BBC know by calling the BBC Duty Log (the number is 08700 100222). I'm told the BBC does pay attention to this feedback (this may encourage them to commission another series!)
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Posted by lisa at 17/12/2006 13:30 GMT |
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| BBC7's ISIHAC: Willie Rushton Anniversary to air next week |
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The following is from the 8 December issue of the BBC 7 Newsletter and refers to broadcasts next week:
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue: Willie Rushton Anniversary
To mark the 10th anniversary of the death of the late, great and much missed Willie Rushton, we have a week of specially chosen episodes of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, featuring Willie at his rib tickling best. On Monday we begin with a special compilation programme of some of Willie's finest moments introduced by producer Jon Naismith. Throughout the week chairman Humphrey Lyttelton and fellow panelists Tim Brooke Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden introduce a selection of favourite programmes. This is a Clue treat not to be missed.
You can access the team's reminiscences on Seven's Shorts http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/drama/shorts.shtml
Monday to Friday at 12.30pm and 7.30pm
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Posted by lisa at 08/12/2006 00:00 GMT |
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| Doctor in the House series 1 DVD (UK) |
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"Doctor in the House" series 1 was released on DVD in the UK last week. As you may know, Graeme and Bill wrote many of the scripts for this series.
In other DVD news, Ezydvd has pushed back the release date for "The Tasty Tin" (their exclusive version of "The Tasty Box" in a collector's tin) to 6 December.
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Posted by lisa at 29/11/2006 00:00 GMT |
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| reminder: BBC2 airing Graeme's episode of "QI" this week |
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Reminder: Graeme's episode of "QI" will air on BBC 2 this Friday (1 Dec).
Also, don't forget that the new series of ISIHAC plus the initial series "One" continue on BBC Radio 4 (details below).
OTHER SHOWS OF INTEREST:
* Mondays - "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue". The new series airs on BBC Radio 4 at 18:30. Each episode will be repeated around noon the following Sunday. The show can be heard online live and then via Listen Again for a week after the initial broadcast at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4
* Thursdays - "One" on BBC Radio 4 at 11:00pm. The show features a series of monologues, including contributions from Graeme, Bill, and others. The show can be heard online live and then via Listen Again for a week after the initial broadcast at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4
* Fri, Fri, 1 Dec - "QI" with Graeme on BBC2 on at 22:00.
(NEW) * Mon, 11 Dec & Tues, 12 Dec - "My Famous Family" hosted by Bill on UKTV History at 13:00. Repeated an hour later on UKTV History Plus 1. I believe this is a repeat of the previously aired series.
* Sundays - ABC Radio National is broadcasting "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" (with Tim and Graeme) on Sunday mornings at 5.30am.
* Mondays - BBC 7 airs old episodes of "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" (with Tim and Graeme). Each episode is available via Listen Again for six days after broadcast. The show can be heard worldwide via the internet from www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7.
* Tuesdays - "Bill Oddie's How to Watch Wildlife" is being repeated by BBC 2 at 20:00
* Nightly - "Bill Oddie's Animal House" on The Baby Channel (Sky channel 285) nightly at 8pm (thanks for Fiona Mikiel for this info)
* Keep an eye out for Graeme's small cameo in an upcoming appearance of the "Agatha Christie's Maple" episode "Nemesis".
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Posted by lisa at 29/11/2006 00:00 GMT |
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| reminder: Graeme on "QI" this week |
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Reminder: Graeme's episode of "QI" will air on BBC 4 this Friday. It'll be repeated on BBC 2 next Friday (1 Dec).
Also, this week's episode of "One" (on BBC Radio 4) is scheduled to include contributions from both Graeme and Bill. If you enjoy the show you may wish to call the BBC Duty Log to let them know (the number is 08700 100222). I'm told the BBC does pay attention to this feedback.
OTHER SHOWS OF INTEREST:
* Mondays - "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue". The new series airs on BBC Radio 4 at 18:30. Each episode will be repeated around noon the following Sunday. The show can be heard online live and then via Listen Again for a week after the initial broadcast at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4
* Thursdays - "One" on BBC Radio 4 at 11:00pm. The show features a series of monologues, including contributions from Graeme, Bill, and others. The show can be heard online and via Listen Again at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4
(UPDATED) * Fri, 24 Nov - "QI" with Graeme on BBC 4 at 22:30. Repeated on BBC2 on Fri, 1 Dec at 22:00.
(UPDATED) * Sun, 26 Nov - repeats of "The Goodies" on UKTV (Austar/Foxtel) from noon-1:00pm.
[use the "click here for more" link below to see further show listings]
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Posted by lisa at 21/11/2006 00:00 GMT |
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| ISIHAC news (+ reminder that the new series starts Monday) |
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Reminder:
The new series of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue starts this coming Monday, 13 November on BBC Radio 4 at 18:30. Jeremy Hardy joins the regulars in a show recorded at the Southport Theatre. The show can be heard online at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4
New information:
* The guests for the upcoming ISIHAC recordings in this series will be Rob Brydon at the Victoria Palace Theatre, London on 12 Nov and Tony Hawks at the Sunderland Empire, Sunderland on 26 Nov.
* A new CD entitled I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue": In Search of Mornington Crescent is scheduled for release in the UK on 5 March 2007.
Here's a description from Amazon.co.uk's website: "Mornington Crescent is a game whose rules and history are shrouded in myth and mystery. Now, in this extended version of a spoof documentary first aired on BBC Radio 4, the team from "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" research shine a light in the dark. As if that wasn't enough, Humphrey Lyttelton, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Barry Cryer also provide readings from two learned books on the subject: "The Little Book of Mornington Crescent" and "Stovold's Mornington Crescent Almanac". From Roman times to Chaucer and beyond, "Mornington Crescent" has become a legend in its own tube stop. Now, at last, its true history can be told."
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Posted by lisa at 11/11/2006 00:00 GMT |
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| ISIRTA Volume 5 - at last! |
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According to Amazon.co.uk, after a 10 year delay a new collection of "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again" episodes is being released by BBC Audiobooks.
"I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again Volume 5" is scheduled for a 5 Feb 2007 release in the UK. There's no information yet about which episodes it will contain. Here's the current synopsis from Amazon: "This is, due to popular demand, and after a long break, a fifth volume of episodes from the irreverent radio comedy series which ran between 1964 and 1973. Starring John Cleese, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie, "ISIRTA" is a mix of quickfire sketches, bad puns, humorous songs, and TV and cinema parodies. It quickly developed a cult following, and was the forerunner of "The Goodies and I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue".
In addition, the previously released volumes 1-4 are slated to be released as a multi-CD set on the same day. While Amazon currently lists the title as "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again: v. 1-4" the description claims volume 5 will be included in this set as well. We'll have to watch for updated information as the release date gets closer.
A breakdown of the episodes included in ISIRTA volumes 1-4 can be found at http://mysite.verizon.net/vze7yes3/illustratedguides/radio_shows.html
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Posted by lisa at 11/11/2006 00:00 GMT |
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| reminder: Bill on "Never Mind the Buzzcocks" tomorrow |
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Just a reminder that Bill is scheduled to be on tomorrow evening's episode of "Never Mind the Buzzcocks" (BBC2 at 22:00).
Also, here's an initial listing for "One", the new show airing on BBC Radio
4 next Thursday (16 Nov): "The all-new sketch show where no sketch features more than one voice. Written by David Quantick and starring Dan Maier, Lizzie Roper, Graeme Garden, Deborah Norton, Andrew Crawford, Dan Antopolski and Jeremy Clarkson as himself."
[use the "click here for more information" link below for a list of other shows of interest to Goodies fans]
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Posted by lisa at 08/11/2006 00:00 GMT |
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| broadcast of Linda Smith tribute with ISIHAC cast (& other goodies-related shows |
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In the following list "(NEW)" indicates shows added since the last update (some of which may be repeats).
(NEW) * Fri, 3 Nov - The "Linda Smith Gala", a tribute to the popular comedian on BBC7 at 23:00-00:00 (repeated Saturday, 4 Nov at 4:00-5:00). The show will include contributions from the ISIHAC cast (including Tim & Graeme). The show can be heard worldwide via the internet at www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7.
(UPDATED) * Sundays - repeats of "The Goodies" first 2 series on UKTV (Austar/Foxtel). For the next few weeks they will be shown in 5 episode blocks from noon to 2:30pm
* Fri, 3 Nov - The "Married with Children" episode "The England Show, Part 1" with Bill, ITV4 at 18:30
* Fri, 3 Nov - "Top 50 Greatest Celebrity Animals" with an appearance by Bill on Sky Three at 21:00-23:00. Sky Three will repeat the show again on Sunday, 5 Nov at 00:10-02:10.
* Thurs, 9 Nov - "Never Mind the Buzzcocks" with Bill, BBC2 22:00
* Thurs, 9 Nov - The "Married with Children" episode "The England Show, Part 2" with Bill, ITV4 at 19:00
(NEW) * The new series of "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" starts on BBC Radio 4 on Monday, 13 Nov at 18:30. Each episode can be heard online live and then via Listen Again for a week after the initial broadcast at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4
* Thurs, 16 Nov - "One" on BBC Radio 4 at 11:00pm. It will feature a series of monologues, including contributions from Graeme, Bill, and others.
* Fri, 1 Dec - "QI" with Graeme. I believe this will be on BBC2 at 22:00.
* Sundays - ABC Radio National is broadcasting "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" (with Tim and Graeme) on Sunday mornings at 5.30am.
* Sundays - "There'll Never Be Another" on BBC7; the series is presented by Graeme. Each episode will be broadcast several times during the day Sundays and will then be available via Listen Again for six days after broadcast. The shows can be heard worldwide via the internet from www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7.
* Mondays - BBC 7 airs old episodes of "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" (with Tim and Graeme). Each episode is available via Listen Again for six days after broadcast. The show can be heard worldwide via the internet from www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7.
* Tuesdays - "Bill Oddie's How to Watch Wildlife" is being repeated by BBC 2 at 20:00
* Nightly - "Bill Oddie's Animal House" on The Baby Channel (Sky channel 285) nightly at 8pm (thanks for Fiona Mikiel for this info)
* Various - UKTV Style Gardens is showing "Bill Oddie Goes Wild". Check your local listings for dates and times.
* Various - UKTV Documentary and UKTV Documentary Plus 1 are showing "Birding With Bill Oddie". Check your local listings for dates and times.
* Keep an eye out for Graeme's small cameo in an upcoming appearance of the "Agatha Christie's Maple" episode "Nemesis".
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Posted by lisa at 01/11/2006 00:00 GMT |
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| BBC7 good news/bad news |
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The good news is that there will be an opportunity to hear extra episodes of ISIHAC tomorrow (Saturday, Oct 21) when Jeremy Hardy serves as BBC7 Comedy Controller. The listing for that show (excerpted from the latest BBC7 newsletter) can be seen using the "click here for more" link. The show can be heard online at www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7 live or for six days after broadcast (using Listen Again).
The bad news is that BBC7 has completed its run of "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again" for the moment. Shows tend to leave their schedules and then reappear, so hopefully the wait won't be too long.
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Posted by lisa at 20/10/2006 00:00 GMT |
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| reminder: "The Unbelievable Truth" with Graeme this Thursday |
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Reminder: "The Unbelievable Truth" will air this Thursday, Oct 19th on BBC Radio 4 from 18:30 to 19:00. Here's a listing - "David Mitchell hosts a new game in which panelists are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another to see how many items of truth they are able to smuggle past their opponents. Starring: Jeremy Hardy, Andy Hamilton, Neil Mullarkey, Graeme Garden
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Here are some other shows of interest to Goodies fans. In the following list "(NEW)" indicates shows added since the last update (some of which may be repeats).
* week starting Mon, 16 Oct - "The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs" will be repeated on UKTV Documentary and UKTV Documentary Plus on various days & times; check your local listings
* Mon, 16 Oct - "Wogan: Now and Then" includes an appearance by Bill. The show airs on UKTV Documentary at 12:00-13:00 and then on UKTV Documentary Plus 1 an hour later.
* Tues, 17 Oct & Weds, 18 Oct - The "Who Do You Think You Are?" about Bill will be repeated at various times on UKTV History and UKTV History Plus 1.
* Thurs, 19 Oct - "The Unbelievable Truth" on BBC Radio 4 from 18:30 to 19:00. It should be available for six days after broadcast from Listen Again. It can be heard worldwide from www.bbc.co.uk/radio4.
(NEW) * Thurs, 16 Nov - "One" on BBC Radio 4 at 11:00pm. It will feature a series of monologues, including contributions from Graeme, Bill, and others.
(NEW) * 1 Dec "QI" with Graeme.
* Sundays starting 29 Oct - UKTV (Austar/Foxtel) will be playing episodes of "The Goodies" on Sundays. They will be starting with series 1 episode 1.
* Sundays - ABC Radio National is broadcasting "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" (with Tim and Graeme) on Sunday mornings at 5.30am.
* Sundays - "There'll Never Be Another" on BBC7; the series is presented by Graeme. Each episode will be broadcast several times during the day Sundays and will then be available via Listen Again for six days after broadcast. The shows can be heard worldwide via the internet from www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7.
* Mondays - BBC 7 airs old episodes of "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" (with Tim and Graeme) and "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again" (with all three Goodies). They are available via Listen Again for six days after broadcast. The shows can be heard worldwide via the internet from www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7.
* Tuesdays - BBC 2 is showing "Bill Oddie's How to Watch Wildlife"
* Nightly - "Bill Oddie's Animal House" on The Baby Channel (Sky channel 285) nightly at 8pm (thanks for Fiona Mikiel for this info)
* Various - UKTV Style Gardens is showing "Bill Oddie Goes Wild" and "Springwatch with Bill Oddie". Check your local listings for dates and times.
* Various - UKTV Documentary and UKTV Documentary Plus 1 are showing "Birding With Bill Oddie". Check your local listings for dates and times.
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Posted by lisa at 16/10/2006 00:00 GMT |
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| Linda Smith book launch info |
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The following information appeared in the October 6th edition of the BBC7 newsletter.
"And finally, there are tickets available for a show to launch of 'The Very Best of Linda Smith book' at Drill Hall on October 30th. The show starts at 7.30pm. Tickets are £10 which is a donation to Ovarian Cancer charities. The Drill Hall number is 0207 307 5060. The Show will feature Linda's friends and fellow performers reading extracts they have personally chosen from the book."
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Posted by lisa at 10/10/2006 00:00 GMT |
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| upcoming Goodies-related radio & TV shows |
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Two shows to watch for, since we don't know the broadcast dates yet - Graeme filmed an episode of "Never Mind the Full Stops" earlier this year; it should air sometime soon. Also, about a week ago Graeme did a cameo appearance for an episode of "Miss Marple" entitled "Nemesis".
Please note the updated start dates for the UKTV (Australia) repeats of "The Goodies" and the "There'll Never Be Another" series repeat on BBC7. In the following list "(NEW)" indicates shows added since the last update (some of which may be repeats).
* Mon, 2 Oct & Mon, 9 Oct - BBC Radio 4 will be repeating the two-part series "Comedy Playhouse", presented by Tim Brooke-Taylor. Each episode airs at 23:00 to 23:30. It'll then be available for a week via Listen Again. The shows can be heard worldwide via the internet from www.bbc.co.uk/radio4.
(UPDATED) * Sundays starting 8 Oct - "There'll Never Be Another" on BBC7; the series is presented by Graeme. Each episode will be broadcast several times during the day Sundays and will then be available via Listen Again for six days after broadcast. The shows can be heard worldwide via the internet from www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7.
(NEW) * Tues, 10 Oct - "Sun and Moon", which includes a clip from "The Goodies" on BBC 2 from 23:20 to 23:50
* Mondays - Thursdays, through Oct 12 - BBC 2 will be airing the new series of "Autumnwatch" from 20:00 to 21:00, four nights a week. The show is hosted by Bill Oddie, Kate Humble and Simon King.
* Mon, 16 Oct & Tues, 17 Oct - "The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs" will be repeated on UKTV Documentary and UKTV Documentary Plus at various times; check your local listings
* Mon, 16 Oct - "Wogan: Now and Then" includes an appearance by Bill. The show airs on UKTV Documentary at 12:00-13:00 and then on UKTV Documentary Plus 1 an hour later.
* Tues, 17 Oct & Weds, 18 Oct - The "Who Do You Think You Are?" about Bill will be repeated at various times on UKTV History and UKTV History Plus 1.
(NEW) * Thurs, 19 Oct - "The Unbelievable Truth" on BBC Radio 4 from 18:30 to 19:00. The pilot episode of a new panel game starring Graeme Garden & Jeremy Hardy. Here's a listing - "David Mitchell hosts a new game in which panelists are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another to see how many items of truth they are able to smuggle past their opponents. Starring: Jeremy Hardy, Andy Hamilton, Neil Mullarkey, Graeme Garden. The show can be heard online at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4
(UPDATE) * Sundays starting 29 Oct - UKTV (Austar/Foxtel) will be playing episodes of The Goodies on Sundays. They will be starting with series 1 episode 1.
* Sundays - ABC Radio National is broadcasting "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" (with Tim and Graeme) on Sunday mornings at 5.30am.
* Mondays - BBC 7 airs old episodes of "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" (with Tim and Graeme) and "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again" (with all three Goodies). They are available via Listen Again for six days after broadcast. The shows can be heard worldwide via the internet from www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7.
* Tuesdays - BBC 2W (Digital) is showing "Bill Oddie's How to Watch Wildlife
* Nightly - "Bill Oddie's Animal House" on The Baby Channel (Sky channel 285) nightly at 8pm (thanks for Fiona Mikiel for this info)
* Various - UKTV Style Gardens is showing "Bill Oddie Goes Wild" and "Springwatch with Bill Oddie". Check your local listings for dates and times.
* Various - UKTV Documentary and UKTV Documentary Plus 1 are showing "Birding With Bill Oddie". Check your local listings for dates and times.
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Posted by lisa at 07/10/2006 00:00 GMT |
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| upcoming Goodies-related tv & radio shows |
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In the following list, "(NEW)" indicates shows added since the last update
* Thurs, 28 Sept - The final episode in the current series of "Hamish and Dougal: You'll Have Had Your Tea" on BBC Radio 4 at 23:00. The show can be heard live and also via Listen Again for six days after the broadcast at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4.
(NEW) * Thurs, 28 Sept - Graeme's first appearance on HIGNFY will be repeated on "Have I Got 2002 For You" on UKTV Documentary from 22:40 to 23:20 and then on UKTV Documentary Plus 1 from 23:40 to 00:20
(NEW) * Sundays starting 1 Oct - UKTV (Austar/Foxtel) will be playing episodes of The Goodies on Sundays from 12pm-2.30pm starting 1st October. They will be starting with series 1 episode 1.
(NEW) * Sundays starting 1 Oct - "There'll Never Be Another" gets another airing in BBC 7. Graeme Garden presents this series about classic British comedians (the subject of the 1st episode is Max Miller). Each episode will be broadcast several times during the day Sundays and will then be available via Listen Again for six days after broadcast. The shows can be heard worldwide via the internet from www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7.
(NEW) * Mon, 2 Oct & Mon, 9 Oct - BBC Radio 4 will be repeating the two-part series "Comedy Playhouse", presented by Tim Brooke-Taylor. Each episode airs at 23:00 to 23:30. It'll then be available for a week via Listen Again. The shows can be heard worldwide via the internet from www.bbc.co.uk/radio4.
(NEW) * Mondays - Thursdays, Oct 2-12 - BBC 2 will be airing the new series of "Autumnwatch" from 20:00 to 21:00, four nights a week. The show is hosted by Bill Oddie, Kate Humble and Simon King.
* Sundays - ABC Radio National is broadcasting "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" (with Tim and Graeme) on Sunday mornings at 5.30am.
* Mondays - BBC 7 airs old episodes of "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" (with Tim and Graeme) and "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again" (with all three Goodies). They are available via Listen Again for six days after broadcast. The shows can be heard worldwide via the internet from www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7.
* Tuesdays - BBC 2W (Digital) is showing "Bill Oddie's How to Watch Wildlife
* Nightly - "Bill Oddie's Animal House" on The Baby Channel (Sky channel 285) nightly at 8pm (thanks for Fiona Mikiel for this info)
* Various - UKTV Style Gardens is showing "Bill Oddie Goes Wild" and "Springwatch with Bill Oddie". Check your local listings for dates and times.
* Various - UKTV Documentary and UKTV Documentary Plus 1 are showing "Birding With Bill Oddie". Check your local listings for dates and times.
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Posted by lisa at 25/09/2006 00:00 GMT |
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| BBC4 Programmes coming up |
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Thanks to Helen Randle for posting this information on the goodies-l mailing list:
"A couple of programmes I've spotted that are coming up soon -
*Godlessness and Dirt: 60 Years of the Edinburgh Festival* A look at the long-standing rivalry between the 'official' Edinburgh Festival and its unruly sibling, the Fringe. With rare footage and contributions from festival veterans.
BBC Four, Sun 17 Sep, 21:00-22:00
One of the contributors is Tim.
*Never Mind the Full Stops*
Julian Fellowes is joined by Nina Wadia, John Sergeant, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Rod Liddle to discuss, dissect and delight in the English language.
BBC Four, Wed 20 Sep, 23:20-23:50
As this seems to be a repeat of the first series presumably the episode with Graeme should be sometime soon."
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Posted by lisa at 17/09/2006 00:00 GMT |
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| new series of "Hamish & Dougal" continues on Radio 4 (+ other shows of interest) |
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* Thursdays - The new series of "Hamish and Dougal: You'll Have Had Your Tea" airs Thursdays on BBC Radio 4 at 23:00. The shows can be heard live and also via Listen Again for six days after the broadcast at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4.
* Sundays - ABC Radio National is broadcasting "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" (with Tim and Graeme) on Sunday mornings at 5.30am.
* Mondays - BBC 7 airs old episodes of "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" (with Tim and Graeme) and "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again" (with all three Goodies). They are available via Listen Again for six days after broadcast. The shows can be heard worldwide via the internet from www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7.
* Tuesdays - BBC 2W (Digital) is showing "Bill Oddie's How to Watch Wildflife
* Nightly - "Bill Oddie's Animal House" on The Baby Channel (Sky channel 285) nightly at 8pm (thanks for Fiona Mikiel for this info)
* Various - UKTV Style Gardens is showing "Bill Oddie Goes Wild" and "Springwatch with Bill Oddie". Check your local listings for dates and times.
* Various - UKTV Documentary and UKTV Documentary Plus 1 are showing "Birding With Bill Oddie". Check your local listings for dates and times.
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Posted by lisa at 08/09/2006 00:00 GMT |
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| tribute to Linda Smith in Edinburgh tomorrow night |
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According to http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/news.cfm?id=1228962006, a tribute to Linda Smith will be held tomorrow evening at the Assembly Rooms.
I don't know if Tim or Graeme will be participating in the show, but their ISIHAC cast mast Barry Cryer is scheduled to appear.
Here's a cut & paste of the article:
Comedians stage benefit show for late Fringe star
A HOST of Fringe comedians are to appear at a benefit concert in memory of the late Linda Smith.
Well known for her frequent appearances on Radio 4's The News Quiz, Have I Got News For You, Room 101 and Mock the Week, Ms Smith died in February of ovarian cancer, aged 48.
She was a regular performer at the Fringe, and her partner Warren Laken has organised the event to raise money for some of the many charities she supported.
These include the mining families of Corton Wood colliery and Brampton village, where she worked in 1984, and where she was helping to fund a programme of youth arts projects.
Ms Smith also had a long-term relationship with a pair of orphanages in Tigray, in northern Ethiopia, and some of the money raised will go towards providing them with play equipment.
Among the comedians taking part in the free midnight show are Tim Clark, Barry Cryer, Hattie Hayridge, Adam Hills, Jeff Green, Fred MacAulay, Chris Neill and Lucy Porter.
Ms Smith performed on the Fringe regularly between 1988 and 1995, playing at the Gilded Balloon, the Pleasance and the Assembly Rooms, whose artistic director William Burdett-Coutts was pleased to provide space for the benefit concert.
Mr Laken said: "We have already done some tribute shows in England and someone suggested doing a benefit at the Fringe, because Linda used to be a regular there. All of the people taking part were either close friends of Linda or fans who wanted to take part, and the support has been great."
Mr Laken is also writing a book documenting Linda's work due out later this year and a biography which will be released next year.
The benefit is being held in the Assembly Rooms at midnight tomorrow
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Posted by lisa at 21/08/2006 00:00 GMT |
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| new ISIHAC CD to be released in September |
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Amazon.co.uk has a listing for a new ISIHAC CD that is scheduled to be released on September 4th. Rather than the standard collection of 4 half hour episodes, "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, Live: v. 10" is described as follows:
"This is a brand new live release based around the multi award-winning BBC Radio 4 series, and featuring Humphrey Lyttelton, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden. This is your chance to attend a Clue recording from the comfort of your armchair, and to re-visit a golden period before Willie Rushton's untimely death, in these two extended live editions from the mid-1990s featuring Humphrey Lyttelton, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Jeremy Hardy and Willie Rushton. Featuring out-takes, re-takes and far more material than is heard on the regular radio broadcasts, each edition is introduced by the programme's producer, Jon Naismith. "
In other shopping news, a "Bromwell High" DVD is scheduled to be released in the UK on August 7th. At present the image on Amazon says it will contain the six episodes that were broadcast in the UK. Graeme provides the voice of Mr. Bibby in the series.
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Posted by lisa at 27/06/2006 00:00 GMT |
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| radio show recording with Graeme on 25 June / Hamish & Dougal start date |
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The following information comes from the "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" mailing list.
1. FREE tickets are available to the first ever recording of a new Radio 4 panel game called THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH. Graeme Garden and Jeremy Hardy are on the panel; the host will be David Mitchell (of Radio 4's 'That Mitchell & Webb Sound', Channel 4's 'Peep Show' etc). The recording will be SUNDAY 25th JUNE at the Shaw Theatre, Euston Road (London). Tickets are available from BBC Audience Services by calling 020 8576 1227 or writing to BBC Audience Services, PO Box 3000, BBCTV Centre, London W12 7RJ
2. A new series of 'You'll Have Had Your Tea: The Doings of Hamish & Dougal', starring Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Jeremy Hardy and Alison Steadman, begins on Radio 4 at 11pm on Tuesday 22nd August.
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Posted by lisa at 10/06/2006 00:00 GMT |
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| Bill Oddie to appear on BBC 7's "Comedy Controller" |
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I just spotted this item on BBC 7's website labeled under the heading "Coming Up": "Bill Oddie joins us as Comedy Controller and brings us a few of his favourite shows. Coming soon..."
"Comedy Controller" is a three hour block of programming in which a guest host introduces a selection of programs they've chosen from the material available to BBC 7. We'll keep an eye out for Bill's appearance.
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Posted by lisa at 17/05/2006 00:00 GMT |
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| ticket info for 3rd "Hamish & Dougal" recording plus Linda Smith tribute |
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Here are highlights of the announcement that was emailed to the ISIHAC mailing list. The full message can be read by using the "click here for more" link below.
* The third recording for "Hamish & Dougal: You'll Have Had Your Tea" is to take place on Sunday 21st May 2006, at the Shaw Theatre, 100 - 110 Euston Road, London NW1 2AJ. Tickets are £5 and obtainable from the Shaw Theatre Box Office tel. 0870 033 2600 from 12 noon on Thursday 11th May. Otherwise the Shaw Theatre Box Office is open from 10-6pm Monday to Friday.
* The "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" team plus Jeremy Hardy will be performing a short selection of rounds (for about twenty minutes) as part of a tribute show in memory of the comedian Linda Smith which is taking place at the Victoria Palace Theatre in London on Sunday 4th June at 7.15pm. Other guests include the teams from "Just A Minute" and "The News Quiz". Tickets to the show cost between £27.50-£37.50 and are obtainable from the theatre's Box Office on 020 7834 1317. All proceeds will be going to support Linda's favourite charities.
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Posted by lisa at 09/05/2006 00:00 GMT |
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| updated info about Graeme interviews for "The Pocket Orchestra" |
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Graeme will be doing some publicity for "The Pocket Orchestra" (the new play he's written, which will premiere in London later this month). Here's the latest update. Please note the new date for the Radio 3 interview (it's tomorrow!)
RADIO:
Pocket Orchestra is scheduled to be discussed on several BBC radio shows (which can be heard worldwide via the internet). These include:
UPDATED * BBC Radio 3's 'In Tune' on Weds, April 19th. The show starts at 5:00pm. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/intune/
* BBC Radio 4's "Loose Ends" on Saturday April 22nd. The show airs from 18:15-19:00. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/looseends.shtml
I believe both these shows will be available via Listen Again.
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* Graeme's interview for the Independent Education supplement will possibly come out on Weds, April 19th (or, if not, the following week).
* The Telegraph Arts section will publish a piece Graeme has written. We're awaiting the actual publication date but hear it'll probably be towards the end of next week (the week of April 23rd).
* Graeme has done an interview for the next edition of 'The Lady' magazine. The publication date for this is not yet available.
As a reminder, "The Pocket Orchestra" will be at the Trafalgar Studios in London from April 25th - May 20th (http://www.theambassadors.com/trafalgarstudios/sp_p2699.html). The show's star, Sylvester McCoy, will also be doing some interviews (but the club won't be getting any details about those).
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Posted by lisa at 18/04/2006 00:00 GMT |
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| forthcoming publicity for "The Pocket Orchestra" |
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Graeme will be doing some publicity for "The Pocket Orchestra" (the new play he's written which will premiere in London later this month). He's kindly sent along this preliminary information, which hopefully will be updated when more details become available. Let us know if any of you spot more info!
RADIO:
"Pocket Orchestra" is scheduled to be discussed on several BBC radio shows
(which can be heard worldwide via the internet). These include:
* BBC Radio 4's "Loose Ends" on Saturday April 22nd http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/looseends.shtml
* BBC Radio 3's 'In Tune' one day during the week of April 25th.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/intune/
PRINT:
Graeme has done interviews the next edition of 'The Lady' magazine and will be doing one for the Independent Education supplement. Publication dates for these are not yet available.
He's also writing a piece for the Daily Telegraph - again, we're still awaiting notice of the publication date.
(As a reminder, "The Pocket Orchestra" will be at the Trafalgar Studios in London from April 25th - May 20th.)
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Posted by lisa at 11/04/2006 00:00 GMT |
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| John Junkin RIP |
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We're extremely sorry to report that John Junkin has passed away. Many of you will remember John from his appearance in the Goodies episode "The Baddies" (aka "Double Trouble"). He also worked as a writer and performer with Tim Brooke-Taylor in "Marty" and the radio and television versions of "Hello Cheeky".
The following news story appears at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4781654.stm (an obiturary can also be found at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4781916.stm):
Comedy veteran John Junkin dies
Comedian and writer John Junkin has died at the age of 76.
Junkin, who was in the Beatles film A Hard Day's Night and appeared in TV shows such as The Goodies, had been suffering from lung cancer.
He died at 0130 GMT at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire, said his friend and former BBC Radio 1 DJ Dave Lee Travis.
Five years ago, Junkin made a TV comeback in EastEnders, playing Ernie, a stranger who came into the Queen Vic.
The Ealing-born comedian had also had emphysema and asthma.
Junkin's film roles included Shake, who was one of the road managers in the Beatles' 1964 comedy adventure, A Hard Day's Night.
He also appeared in classic British comedy The Plank, with Tommy Cooper and Eric Sykes.
He was also a prolific writer. His credits include the Morcambe and Wise show and ITV's Hark at Barker, which starred Ronnie Barker as Lord Rustless alongside Josephine Tewson as Mildred Bates.
He also wrote and appeared in Marty, which starred Marty Feldman.
More recently, Junkin was on the writing team of The Crazy World of Joe Pasquale and The Impressionable John Culshaw.
Junkin also appeared in sitcoms Terry and June and Till Death Us Do Part.
His radio credits include Hello Cheeky! alongside Tim Brooke-Taylor and Barry Cryer, which was later turned into a TV series.
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Posted by lisa at 07/03/2006 00:00 GMT |
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| Linda Smith RIP |
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I'm very sad to be reporting the passing of Linda Smith, who many of you will know from her guest appearances on "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" as well as other BBC comedy shows.
The following BBC News story comes from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4759968.stm (an obituary can be found at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4759922.stm):
Radio comedian Linda Smith dies
Comic Linda Smith, a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4's The News Quiz, has died of cancer at the age of 48. The writer and broadcaster was a staple of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and BBC Radio, whose listeners voted her "Wittiest Person" in 2002. She made frequent appearances on Just A Minute and I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, as well as the TV shows Have I Got News For You, Room 101 and Mock the Week.
Radio 4 controller Mark Damazer said her passing was "a terrible loss". "Linda was a Radio 4 giant," he added. "She generated an energy and warmth in every programme she ever did that made her fellow comedians and millions of listeners love her."
News Quiz regular Jeremy Hardy paid an emotional tribute, calling her "the wittiest and brightest person working on TV or radio panel games". "It was impossible to be in her company for more than a few minutes without laughing," he continued. "Even when she was very ill, she had her friends laughing and feeling uplifted despite our sadness. "I am so lucky to have had such a wonderful friend."
Ms Smith, who is survived by her partner Warren Lakin, died on Monday. Mr Hardy told Radio 4 she had been ill for some time from ovarian cancer.
A special tribute edition of the News Quiz will be broadcast on Friday at 1830 GMT, presented by her fellow panellist Andy Hamilton.
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Posted by lisa at 28/02/2006 00:00 GMT |
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| "Bromwell High" is coming to BBC America in March |
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The following article comes from broadcastnow.co.uk
BBC America launches British comedy block
Dan Wootton
25 January 2006 07:59
BBC America is launching an off-peak block of British comedy to appeal to late night US viewers, including Channel 4's Bromwell High. The 13 x 30-minute show made by Hat Trick Productions and Decode Entertainment, will help launch the two hour "comedy zone" at 11pm on 23 March.
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Posted by lisa at 11/02/2006 00:00 GMT |
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| Goodies guest star Henry McGee has passed away |
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Henry McGee, who appeared in two Goodies episodes (as The Music Master in "The Stolen Musicians" and Nasty Person in "The Lost Island of Munga") and in Bill Oddie's "This Is Your Life" has passed away. The following news items is from
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4667190.stm:
Benny Hill star McGee dies at 77
Actor Henry McGee, famed for playing the stooge in the Benny Hill TV show, has died at the age of 77.
He died on Saturday and had been battling Alzheimer's, his agent said. He spent the last six months of his life in a nursing home.
McGee played Hill's sidekick in the comedy sketch show for 20 years and was also appeared alongside the Honey Monster in the Sugar Puffs commercials.
He became an actor after finishing his National Service in the Navy.
The actor was descended from a theatrical family dating back to an 18th Century actress, Kitty Clive.
"I couldn't understand why they did it," he once said. "I thought they must be barmy.
"They would be talking about it all the time and everything they were talking about was a disaster. It was the last thing I wanted to do."
The actor joked that his greatest claim to fame was that he was contracted to play for two weeks in The Mousetrap, giving him the distinction of being cast for the shortest time in the longest-running show.
He also carved out a film career with roles in The Italian Job, The Pink Panther, Carry on Emmanuelle and Holiday On The Buses.
His TV work included parts in Last Of The Summer Wine, Z Cars, Rising Damp, The Goodies, The Saint and The Avengers.
The actor also played the lead in television's Jimmy and the Desperate Woman. He appeared in No That's Me Over There with Ronnie Corbett and The Worker with Charlie Drake.
And his stage work included sharing the limelight with Terry Scott, Dick Emery, Eric Sykes, Tommy Cooper, Rod Hull and Jimmy Tarbuck.
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Posted by lisa at 31/01/2006 00:00 GMT |
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| another show has been added in Adelaide! |
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An additional Goodies show is being added in Adelaide. It will be on Saturday, 26 November at 8:00pm at Her Majesty's Theatre.
Tickets for this show go on sale to the general public this Sunday, 13 November. However, preferential seating for fan club members will go on sale this Friday, 11 Nov THROUGH THE PHONE ROOM ONLY by mentioning the code word. The code word has been emailed to the goodies-l mailing list; registered users of this site who are logged in can see it in a box on the left-hand side of the page. (Please do not post the code word in the forums.)
Tickets are available from www.bass.net.au or phone 131 246.
Tickets are already on sale for the other shows in Adelaide as well as the rest of the tour (though preferential seating is no longer available for the other shows).
The full tour schedule is available in our FAQ at http://www.goodiesruleok.com/faq.php?topic=10.
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Posted by lisa at 10/11/2005 00:00 GMT |
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| third Clue recording announced |
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The third recording for the autum series of "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" will take place at the Harrogate International Centre on Sunday 18th December.
The tickets are priced at £10.50, £8.50 and £6.50 and available from the Harrogate International Centre's box office on 01423 537230. The box office is open Mondays to Saturdays from 9.30am to 5.30pm. They charge a £1 booking fee.
The new series will start on BBC Radio 4 on Monday, 14 November.
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Posted by lisa at 26/09/2005 00:00 GMT |
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| in the shops... |
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I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Volume 9 is scheduled to be released in the UK on 5 September. It will be available as both a 2-CD and 2-cassette set, each of which will include four compilation episodes.
The UK release date for the "Bromwell High" DVD (featuring the voice of Graeme Garden) has been pushed back to 6 February 2006. At present it appears that the Australian edition will still be released on 6 October 2005.
While the release date for the "Hamish & Dougal" book is still listed as being 17 October 2005 I believe this will be pushed back to sometime next year.
The Australian DVD box set ("The Tasty Box") is scheduled for release later this week (on Thursday, 1 Sept.)
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Posted by lisa at 29/08/2005 00:00 GMT |
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| Willy Wonka repeat on UK Channel Five Sunday (24 July) |
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Alison Bean reports on goodies-l that UK television channel Five will be showing "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" this Sunday (24 July) at 6:10pm. Tim Brooke-Taylor has an amusing cameo in the film as a man who thinks he can locate the next golden ticket with a computer.
Alison also reports that Bill is currently doing the voiceover for the TV ads for Kashi breakfast cereal.
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Posted by lisa at 23/07/2005 00:00 GMT |
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| "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" Book Offer for non-UK residents |
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A few weeks ago the club passed along news about a special offer from the publishers of "The Uxbridge English Dictionary" (the latest "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" tie-in book). The original offer included free shipping but was only available to UK residents.
I've been in touch with the publisher, who has arranged a special shipping rate for ISIHAC fans living outside the UK. They will allow any international order received by the 17th of June to purchase the book for £6.99 plus a £3.50 delivery charge (which is lower than Amazon's and other retailers' international delivery rates).
Please see full details below.
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Posted by lisa at 31/05/2005 00:00 GMT |
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| "At Last The 1948 Show" DVD cover |
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The cover artwork for the "At Last the 1948 Show" DVD set can be seen at http://mysite.verizon.net/vze7yes3/photos/index.html. This set is due to be released in the US on July 26th. There are plans to release it in the UK as well although we don't have any details (such as a release date) at this point.
The same company is releasing a "Do Not Adjust Your Set" DVD set, also on July 26th. That series featured several future members of Monty Python. The artwork for the "Do Not Adjust" set is also on the website mentioned above.
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Posted by lisa at 24/05/2005 00:00 GMT |
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| new series of ISIHAC starts next Monday on BBC Radio 4 |
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"I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" returns to BBC Radio 4 with new episodes starting next Monday, 30 May at 18:30. The first episode will come from the Ipswich Regent with guest Jeremy Hardy. Each show will be repeated the Sunday after its initial broadcast around noon (check the listings - I think the time varies slightly some weeks).
Each episode of the new series can be heard online at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4 either live or via Listen Again for a week after the initial broadcast (until the next episode airs).
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Posted by lisa at 23/05/2005 00:00 GMT |
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| ticket info for third ISIHAC recording |
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Tickets for the third ISIHAC recording this spring, to be held at the New Theatre in Oxford on Wednesday 22nd June, will be available starting Friday 22nd April. They'll cost £11, £9 and £7.00, and will be obtainable from the theatre's box office (run by Ticketmaster) or via the theatre's website.
The box office telephone number is 0870 606 3500. You can also book online at www.getlive.co.uk/oxford
PLEASE NOTE that Ticketmaster usually charge a booking fee; the BBC has paid it in this case so the ticket buyers won't have to. You may need to make this clear to the person who takes your booking.
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Posted by lisa at 21/04/2005 00:00 GMT |
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| ticket information for two ISIHAC recordings |
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Here's the information about purchasing tickets for the first two ISIHAC recordings this spring. Information about the third recording should be available in a few days.
The first recording will take place at the Ipswich Regent Theatre on Monday 9th May. Tickets are available now. They cost £10, £8.50 and £7.00, and are obtainable from the theatre's box office (01473 433100) or via the theatre's website (www.ipswichregent.com). There is an additional booking fee, in the region of £1.50.
The second recording will take place at the Rhyl Pavilion Theatre on Sunday 29th May. The tickets will be available from 10am Wednesday 20th April; they'll cost £10 and £8.50 and are obtainable from the theatre's box office (0870 330 0000). They can be booked online (www.pavilion-theatre-rhyl.co.uk ) as of Thursday, 21 April (assuming any are left).
We're told there is the possibility of a single recording at the Edinburgh Festival this year. We'll let you know when there's any further news about this.
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Posted by lisa at 19/04/2005 00:00 GMT |
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| updated info about repeats of "Hamish & Dougal" series 2 |
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The second series of "Hamish and Dougal: You'll Have Had Your Tea" (starring Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer) is going to be repeated on BBC Radio 4 starting Tuesday, 19 April at 23:30. The first three episodes will air Tuesday through Thursday of this week; episodes 4-6 will air Tues-Thurs next week.
You can listen to the show online at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/. Please note that if the show is available on Listen Again then each episode will only be available for a day, until the next episode airs.
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Posted by lisa at 18/04/2005 00:00 GMT |
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| "At Last the 1948 Show" DVD to be released in US in July |
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(thanks to Alison Bean for posting this info on the goodies-l mailing list).
Accoring to http://www.action-tv.org.uk/news_dvdvideo.htm, "At Last the 1948 Show" is coming to DVD in the US on 26th July. This is the 1967 British sketch show that starred Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, and Marty Feldman. It was originally thought that all 13 episodes of the series had been wiped but much of the material has been recovered.
Fans of Monty Python will also be interested to see that "Do Not Adjust Your Set" (another late 1960's sketch show featuring several of the future Pythons) is being released on DVD in the US on the same day.
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Posted by lisa at 17/04/2005 00:00 GMT |
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| new series of ISIHAC on BBC Radio 4 |
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www.isihac.co.uk reports that the new series of "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" will begin on Monday, 30 May.
The recordings for the new series are supposed to be on Monday 9th May at the Ipswich Regent, Sunday 29th May at the Rhyl Pavilion and Tuesday 22nd June at the New Theatre Oxford
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Posted by lisa at 16/04/2005 00:00 GMT |
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| update about "Hamish & Dougal" series 2 CD |
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"Hamish and Dougal, You'll Have Had Your Tea: Series 2" was released in the UK on 4 April. This 2-CD set contains all six episodes of the second series. It doesn't have the Hogmanay special from 31 December 2004; that's probably being held for a later release.
"Hamish and Dougal" is a spin-off from "I’m Sorry I Haven't A Clue". It stars Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer.
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Posted by lisa at 15/04/2005 00:00 GMT |
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| new "Hamish & Dougal" CD & ISIHAC book to be released in April |
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The second series of Graeme Garden & Barry Cryer's ISIHAC spin-off, "Hamish and Dougal, You'll Have Had Your Tea", is scheduled to be released as a 2-CD set on 4 April 2005. At this point we don't know if this set will include the Hogmanay Special.
An ISIHAC book entitled the "Uxbridge English Dictionary" is to be released on 18 April 2005. The item description says, in part, "To mark the 33rd anniversary of the birth of the antidote to panel games, we present the pick of the Definitions Round, a quirky cross between the Collins dictionary and 'Call My Bluff' that has had audiences in stitches for over a decade."
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Posted by lisa at 16/03/2005 00:00 GMT |
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| BBC7 has moved ISIRTA to Mondays |
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BBC7 made some changes to its schedule this week. These include moving I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again" from Fridays to Mondays at 14:30 (repeated Tuesday morning at 6:30).
"I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" remains on Mondays but now airs at 12:30 and 19:30.
Don't forget you can listen to each episode for 6 days after broadcast via BBC7's Listen Again service. http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/
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Posted by lisa at 18/02/2005 00:00 GMT |
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| new series of Giles Wemmbley Hogg w/material from Graeme |
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A new series of "Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off" started today on BBC Radio 4
- like the previous series, this one includes additional material written by Graeme Garden.
The series will air on Tuesdays from 6:30-7:00pm; it can be heard online at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4. Each episode will then be available for about a week via Radio 4's Listen Again service.
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Posted by lisa at 26/01/2005 00:00 GMT |
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| delay in mailing this month's newsletter |
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This month's edition of the club newsletter (the Clarion & Globe) will be mailed a little later than usual. We expect it to be sent by the middle of next week.
If you don't currently receive the newsletter and would like to sign up for it (it's free!) visit our FAQ section. Information can be found in "The Club".
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Posted by lisa at 13/01/2005 00:00 GMT |
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| formatting problem in the FAQ section |
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Just a note to say we're aware that the formatting in the FAQ got messed up as a result of the upgrade - the content is all still there but most of the line spacing disappeared. We'll get it fixed as soon as possible.
Other than some minor kinks the upgrade seems to have gone really well. Check out the new features in the forums, the new Journals section, etc.
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Posted by lisa at 11/01/2005 00:00 GMT |
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| Goodies Celebrated on Radio 4 |
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The following news is taken from Chortle
The BBC is to air a celebration of The Goodies next month.
The news will go some way to placating fans and stars Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie - who have long berated the corporation for refusing to repeat the classic Seventies comedy.
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