>>>>>>Never hear of it, but we did used to get the 'Just a minute' radio show, and it was positvely superb.
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>>>>>Very interesting. From Radio 4 - high-brow channel. Did you also get its stable buddies: "I'm sorry I haven't a clue" (EXCELLENT) and maybe "The News Quiz"?
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>>>>Once again, I've heard of 'I'm Sorry...', but never heard the show. I've never heard of 'The News Quiz'. There was another quite brilliant radio show the name of which escapes me, but I remember that it was a sort of general knowledge quiz would end with two of the panelists being each given an adage, and they competed to tell a longish story that purported to show us how the adage was derived, but the story had to end with a pun on the adage rather than the adage itself. I loved the show, but I just can't remember the name of it.
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>>>Sounds a bit 'I'm Sorry...'
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>>I suppose that's possible, but I's almost swear it isn't "I'm Sorry". What's clunking around in my mind is something like maybe 'My Word'? Was there a show with a name something like that?
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>Nah, never heard of that. Is it too from Radio 4? I get your gist: example like the sightless Viking who couldn't decide whether to buy a new cooker or kitchen sink, because "A hob's as good as a sink to a blind norse". That's the type of "round" they'd have on 'I'm Sorry...', but not the whole show. They have many rounds like that, such as the MC at a society ball, announcing the arrivals, but there's a theme, like they're all undertakers (morticians) so all the names have to be a pun. e.g. (bad example) "Mr and Mrs Kett, and their son Cass"
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>Very funny show.

I was trying to update my reply to which you are replying, but you replied and I couldn't update my reply. <g>

Anyway what I was going to say (I don't know where my mind is this morning) is that I picked up a CD with 4 episodes of "I'm Sorry...". It's a good show, but it's not the other one, which I think might have been called "My Word". Do you know of a show called something like "My Word"? "I'm Sorry" isn't really a 'general knowledge quiz show' either. I mean, hell, they get points deducted for correct answers.

It was a real treat to hear Humphrey Littleton as the MC too. I only knew him as a jazz trumpeter. I knew he is clever and funny (you should read his obituary on himself sometime - he never managed to get his own name quite right), and it was great to hear him hosting this show.