I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue Treasury
Classic BBC Radio Comedy
By: BBC Radio Comedy
Narrated by: Humphrey Lyttleton, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Entertainment & Performing Arts
4.8 out of 5 stars 4.8 (748 ratings)
I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue: A Second Treasury
The Much-Loved BBC Radio 4 Comedy Series
Narrated by: Humphrey Lyttelton, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden
Another bumper collection of classic fun and games from one of BBC Radio 4's best-loved and most enduring comedy panel games. The inimitable Humphrey Lyttelton is in the chair for these 25 hilarious editions (including the very first episode from 1972) plus two volumes of vintage 'Live' recordings (ad libs, retakes, warm-ups and all), a 35th anniversary special edition, and I'm Sorry I Haven't a Desert Island, in which famous fans Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent and Germaine Greer choose their favourite 'Clue' moments.
The King of Panel Shows
By G Noble on 22-10-17
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue: A Third Treasury
Specials and Spin-offs from the BBC Radio 4 Comedy
By: Humphrey Lyttelton, Graeme Garden
Narrated by: Humphrey Lyttelton, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer, and others
A sparkling collection of specials and spin-offs from the award-winning BBC Radio 4 comedy show, plus two tributes to the legendary Humphrey Lyttelton. This third and final Clue treasury features a panoply of specials based around the perennial 'antidote to panel games'. In the mix are I'm Sorry I Haven't a Christmas Clue, featuring the team's unique interpretation of A Christmas Carol; Humph in Wonderland, in which they venture down a rabbit hole; and In Search of Mornington Crescent, in which Andrew Marr peers behind the veil of secrecy surrounding that illustrious game.
Wish I read the tag line
By @slytherinshare on 06-11-18
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue 18
The Award-Winning BBC Radio 4 Comedy
Narrated by: full cast, Jack Dee
Four more extended episodes from the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series, specially compiled by producer Jon Naismith. Another collection of episodes from the famous antidote to panel games now in its 18th edition. Jack Dee challenges regular panellists Tim Brooke-Taylor, and Barry Cryer, with a series of silly games against which to pit their wits. In tribute to Jeremy Hardy, a long-running guest panellist on the show who passed away in 2019, he features in every episode.
Just Funny
By Marc on 29-04-20
Another Classic Collection
By: BBC Comedy
Narrated by: Nicholas Parsons
A sparkling collection of 22 classic episodes of the ever-popular BBC Radio 4 panel game chaired by Nicholas Parsons. Showcasing five key players from the past five decades - Sheila Hancock, Gyles Brandreth, Jenny Eclair, Stephen Fry and Graham Norton - the collection also includes two bonus Christmas themed editions of the show. Loved for the verbal dexterity, wicked wit and competitive edge of its participants, Just a Minute has welcomed scores of guest players to the game since it began in 1967.
Review with no repetition, deviation, hesitation
By B. A. Jones on 03-12-15
By: BBC
Narrated by: Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Jack Dee, and others
Welcome to the 17th collection of episodes from the famous antidote to panel games. Jack Dee challenges regular panelists Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden with a series of silly games against which to pit their wits, along with special guests Harry Hill, Sandi Toksvig, Omid Djalili and Miles Jupp. Highlights include Word for Word, Alien Duets, Swanee Kazoo, Meat Eater's Songbook, In My Pants, Mornington Crescent, Not My Fault, Pig Farmer's Songbook, Specialist Greetings Cards, Unsuccessful Charities, Dentists' Film Club and the ever-popular One Song to the Tune of Another.
fantastically funny
Narrated by: Barry Cryer, David Mitchell, Graeme Garden, and others
Four more extended episodes from the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series, specially compiled by producer Jon Naismith. The antidote to panel games returns with this 16th glorious collection, in which Jack Dee gives regular panelists Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden silly things to do. Joining them in this compilation are special guests Rob Brydon, Victoria Wood, Susan Calman and David Mitchell.
Quick witted and very funny
By Paul Kimberley on 12-06-18
Just A Minute: A Further Classic Collection
22 archive episodes of the much-loved BBC radio comedy game
By: BBC Audio
A further delightful collection of 22 previously unpublished episodes of the ever popular BBC Radio four-panel game chaired by Nicholas Parsons. Showcasing five key players from the past five decades -Tim Rice, Wendy Richard, Tony Hawks, Sue Perkins and Julian Clary - the collection also includes two bonus editions of the show. Loved for the verbal dexterity, wicked wit and competitive edge of its participants, Just a Minute has welcomed scores of guest players to the game since it began in 1967.
Have no hesitation...!
By Intheamazone on 17-09-16
I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue: Vol. 15
By: Iain Pattinson
Narrated by: Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, and others
In this 15th collection of the perennial antidote to panel games, regulars Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden - and special guests Rob Brydon, Jeremy Hardy, Victoria Wood and Ross Noble - are given silly but hilarious things to do by chairman Jack Dee. So join Jack 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.'
By Lesley Goodman on 05-10-20
Narrated by: Tim Brooke-Taylor
Four more extended episodes from the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series specially compiled by producer Jon Naismith This fourteenth collection of the antidote to panel games finds Jack Dee giving regular panellists Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden silly things to do - along with special guests Jeremy Hardy, David Mitchell, Marcus Brigstocke and Rob Brydon. Highlights include Sound Charades, Whose Duck Are You?
Absolutely Great!
By Benny on 08-07-13
By: Humphrey Lyttelton
Narrated by: Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden
This 13th collection of the antidote to panel games finds Jack Dee giving regular panellists Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden silly things to do - along with special guests Jeremy Hardy, Sandi Toksvig, Rob Brydon and David Mitchell. Highlights include 'Uxbridge English Dictionary', 'One Song to the Tune of Another', 'Sound Charades', 'Historical Voicemail', 'Bankers' Film Club', 'Sound Effects Storytime', 'Party Guests', '84 Chicken Cross Road', 'Trail of the Lonesome Pun',
Heeeeeeeeeelarious!!
I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, Volume 12
Narrated by: Barry Cryer, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden
Here are four more compilations of the funniest puns, songs and one-liners from the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series. And this will be the last Clue release to feature Humphrey Lyttelton as host as he presides over regulars Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer, and Graeme Garden. Often imitated but never bettered, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue is the only authentic antidote to panel games.
Painfully Funny
By johnnyjohnjohn on 05-01-11
Just a Minute: The Golden Collection
Classic episodes of the much-loved BBC Radio comedy game
Narrated by: Kenneth Williams, Nicholas Parsons, Full Cast, and others
Celebrating 50 years of Just a Minute on air, a collection of previously unpublished episodes from each of the programme's six decades, from 1967 through to the special Christmas 2016 programme Just a Minute Does Panto! Nicholas Parson chairs every programme, with a plethora of guest players, including Kenneth Williams, Derek Nimmo, Peter Jones, Paul Merton, Graham Norton, Gyles Brandreth and Sheila Hancock.
Why so much Freud??
By GeekCollector on 11-09-17
Yes Minister & Yes Prime Minister - The Complete Audio Collection
By: Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn
Narrated by: Paul Eddington, full cast, Nigel Hawthorn
Between 1980 and 1988 on BBC television and radio, the exploits of the Rt Hon Jim Hacker MP (Paul Eddington) - later Prime Minister - kept the British nation enthralled. Helped - and hampered - by his diligent Permanent Secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby (Nigel Hawthorne) and his Principle Private Secretary Bernard Woolley (Derek Fowlds), Hacker and his department became synonymous with government bureaucracy and administrative double dealing.
Hasn't dated a day.
By Steven Turner on 01-12-15
Just a Minute: Through the Years
12 Classic Episodes of the Much-Loved BBC Radio Comedy Game
Narrated by: Nicholas Parsons, Paul Merton, Kenneth Williams, and others
Ten archive editions of the the much-loved BBC Radio 4 panel game plus two very special programmes, chaired by Nicholas Parsons. Seasons come and go, and years fly by, but Just a Minute has been a constant ray of sunshine on Radio 4 for over 50 years. Now, in this new collection of programmes, 10 previously unpublished editions - from the 1970s to the 2010s - are presented alongside two very special half hours: Just a Minute: 50 Years in 28 Minutes and 50 Years of Just a Minute: Paul Merton in Conversation with Nicholas Parsons.
A Brilliant Tribute
By talker on 28-05-20
It's Not What You Know: Series 1-5
The BBC Radio 4 Comedy Panel Show
Narrated by: Miles Jupp, Joe Lycett
It's not what you know but who you know that matters...and, indeed, how well you know them. The show is a bit like 'Mr and Mrs', except that it's not played by husbands and wives. Instead, panellists can pick anyone they like: dad, cousin, best friend, mother-in-law. What is Bridget Christie's worst fear? Or Ainsley Harriott's worst habit? Or Seann Walsh's worst gig? All these burning questions, and more, will be answered in this BBC comedy panel show hosted by Miles Jupp, where panellists are tested on how well they know their nearest and dearest.
Great entertainment
By philip white on 27-12-18
Complete Series One: March 1965 - June 1965
By: Marty Feldman, Barry Took
Narrated by: Betty Marsden, Kenneth Williams, Bill Pertwee, and others
Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Betty Marsden and Hugh Paddick star in 16 episodes of the anarchic 1960s radio comedy. Round the Horne arrived on BBC radio in 1965, bringing laughter to Sunday lunchtimes throughout the land. Over the course of 16weekly episodes it carved a niche in the history of broadcast comedy, a sketch show which prodded the boundaries of propriety and innuendo.
The Horne Legacy
By Brian on 27-06-17
By: Barry Took, Marty Feldman
Narrated by: full cast, Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Horne
Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Betty Marsden and Hugh Paddick star in 15 episodes of the anarchic 1960s radio comedy. Round the Horne arrived on BBC radio in 1965, bringing laughter to Sunday lunchtimes throughout the land. Over the course of 16 weekly episodes it carved a niche in the history of broadcast comedy, a sketch show which prodded the boundaries of propriety and innuendo.
By E on 22-11-19
I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, Volume 8
By: BBC Audiobooks
Narrated by: Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer, Willie Rushton, and others
Another helping of inspired ad-libbery from the multi award-winning BBC Radio 4 series.
A bumper collection of classic fun and games from one of BBC Radio 4's best-loved and most enduring comedy panel games.
The inimitable Humphrey Lyttelton is in the chair for these 36 hilarious editions, collected together for the first time. He presides over regular players Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Willie Rushton, plus guests including Stephen Fry, Tony Hawks, Andy Hamilton, Paul Merton, Sandi Toksvig and Jeremy Hardy.
Hear them having their wicked way with favourite rounds, including One Song to the Tune of Another, Limericks, Sound Charades, Cheddar Gorge and Swanee Kazoo. The teams are helped along by lively audiences from a variety of British towns and cities, and, as is customary on Clue, Colin Sell is at the piano, and the lovely Samantha sits on Humph's right hand.
Also included is a special episode, 'Everyman's Guide to Mornington Crescent', which reveals the full and unexpurgated history of the greatest game on earth; and Willie Rushton's last show, featuring an introductory tribute from Ned Sherrin.
A feast of unrestrained revelry and inspired ad-libs, this is the authentic, award-winning antidote to panel games. Accept no substitutes!
Duration: 18 hours approx.
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What listeners say about I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue Treasury
There are not many radio comedy shows that make me laugh out loud - but this is one of them. The timing and delivery of the late great Humphrey Littleton is priceless. Worth every penny when you just want to listen to some gentle humour and downright silliness
Absolutely hilarious
It is wonderful to have this as one long playlist, however as I bought all the previous series of isihac collections, it is rather annoying that this treasury is made up of these. So far I've not found one single episode I haven't got already.
cathryn
Simply brilliant!
So funny that i found myself laughing outloud and crying with laughter! Comedy genius! Featuring some lost talents x
Scopesie
A Real Treasury
Fans of the show will not be disappointed, simply brilliant, Humph is Chairman throughout this collection, so none from the more recent series. Some absolutely classic moments, with Willie Rushton stealing the show in the earlier episodes. Jeremy Hardy and Tony Hawkes appear as guests in the later shows, along with Harry Hill, Stephen Fry and Paul Merton. That's about it for my review, but there's just time for a round of Fisherman's Songbook before I finish....
Good Old-Fashioned British Postcard Humour!
Rarely have I felt more qualified to comment on anything than I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue! Somehow it just sounds like something I can be relied on to discuss with real-life empathy . . . This is though an absolute delight, I've been listening to them for a while between books and they are a great spot of light relief on tap whenever you just need a bit of silliness to keep you going. Oh for sure some of it can seem a little repetitive, especially if you binge on it and I could certainly have done without the half hour mockumentary about Mornington Crescent but overall the title has it right. It is a little treasury and unless your sense of humour is either missing or refined above verbal slapstick it's bound to make you smile. Only note is that of course a fair amount of the humour is pertinent to the time it was recorded so younger listeners might not feel quite so in tune with it. There will still be plenty in there to keep you sniling though.
British humour at its finest
A magnificent selection of the best half hours from the last 30 or 40 years.
Occasionally repetitive but in an enjoyable way. Spotting the repetition becomes a pleasure in itself.
Absolute classic
Easy listening and great (even if a little dated) fun! Slight editing problems (hear a few minutes twice) but overall a great compilation.
mollyeyre
Brilliant, brilliant brilliant!
What more can I say? the fun and humour of these episodes is just a joy to listen to. I like the fact that I can use this as a stop gap and just list for half an hour or an hour depending how much time I have to listen, but most of all I love the cleverness of the panellists' wit!! Brilliant.
absolute classics
a great collection of the greatest comedy show ever.
not quite a best of, but hours of entertainment.
Mufflana
Sheer brilliance in parts....
Would you consider the audio edition of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue Treasury to be better than the print version?
What did you like best about this story?
Fast paced wit, fabulous entertainment.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No, best savoured in 30-60 minute bursts....too funny to go on longer!
I still don't understand Mornington Crescent! A great compilation of episodes, well worth a giggle
Silly, erudite, irreverent, and brilliant.
I thoroughly enjoy British panel shows, but this self-proclaimed "antidote to panel shows" has got to be my favorite panel show of all time. Only "The Unbelievable Truth" and television's "Would I Lie to You" even come close for me. This is a marvelous treasury of old programs from the series. The wit and humor is wonderful. I have listened several times and plan to listen many more. If you enjoy this treasury, be sure to buy the second volume. Both are well worth a credit.
Albert Sjoberg (PA)
Lots of fun.
Generally an entertaining listen. The first couple of episodes are very entertaining and we're good for a few raucous laughs. Unfortunately there are a number of episodes to the end when the show was taken on the road that are very repetitive. I am sure that listening to these episodes once a week would have been fine, but hearing them played one after the other was not as entertaining.
BrooklynDavid
Wonderful but with repeats
Love the show. Wish they didn't choose some episodes which repeat to pad out the collection.
DJDecca
Anyone For a Round of Mornington Crescent?
It's impossible to be in a bad mood after listening to I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. It's just pure fun. Delightfully unpretentious, playful, endlessly charming. A wonderful combination of erudition and silliness. At least once in every episode they say something that makes me laugh so hard I scare the cat. Scaring the cat funny, is a good scale with which to measure humor.
english humor at its finest. mornington crescent.
mornington crescent for the win. anyone have a phone number for samantha? she sounds like fun.
This show is so funny that I sometimes distract my coworkers because I can't keep myself from laughing out loud.
The show's format is similar to Who's Line Is It, Anyway? with the host mediating while the panelists ad-lib responses, finish famous quotes in unexpected ways, sing one song to the tune of another, provide budget-cut or failed movie/book titles, and play games.
I was excited to see recently that a second treasury is set for release in October, 2017 - and I have already pre-ordered it (it's May).
If you like British comedy - be it Monty Python or Last of the Summer Wine - I think you will enjoy this program.