I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
Typical samples from the Radio 4 "antidote to panel games", starring Willie Rushton, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Crier, Graeme Garden, Humphrey Lyttleton and Samantha, scoresperson extraordinary.

HISTORICAL HEADLINES - The feeding of the five thousand
Magicians Weekly:DAVID COPPERFIELD UNVEILS GREAT NEW TUNA SANDWICH ILLUSION
Jewish Chronicle:ARE GOLDFISH KOSHER?
Sun:JESUS CHRIST ATE MY FISH
Observer:4998 VEGETARIANS LEFT HUNGRY
Daily Mirror: WHERE'S THE KETCHUP? SHOUT PHARISEES
Financial Times: ATTRACTIVE PROPERTY GAINS FOR MEEK FORECAST

ROMAN FILM CLUB

Toga, Toga, Toga
Last Action Nero
Funny Gaul starring Barbarian Streisand
Viaduct Soup
Mad Maximus
Gladiator II - He's Baccus
Roller Ball and Remus
Rome Alone
Orgy and Bess with Caesar Minnelli
Hadrian's Wallstreet

GOOD NEWS BAD NEWS

TIMGood news - the pound is now worth $2.60.
GRAEMEBad news - the dollar is now worth 3 cents.
WILLYGood news - 3 cents is worth 3 Mongolian Yaks
BARRYBad news - the Mongolian Yak has been taken to the vet to be devalued.
TIMGood news - the vet was James Herriot, and he's written a book about it.
GRAEMEBad news - the book costs $2.60.
TIMGood news - my picture was in the paper.
BARRYBad news - it was The Sun
WILLYGood news - it's on Page 3.
GRAEMEBad news - he's got his back to the camera.
TIMGood news - you should see Page 4.
GRAEMEGood news - British television is the best in the world.
TIMBad news - this show's not on it.
BARRYGood news - it's probably going to be.
WILLYBad news - it's definitely going to be.
GRAEMEGood news - there'll be some improvements.
TIMBad news - they're changing the cast.
BARRYGood news - our team will be Jaqueline Bisset in a wet vest.
WILLYBad news - our team will be Graeme & Barry.
GRAEMEGood news - the chairman will be Robert Robinson.
TIMBad news - it always is.
WILLYGood news - the Queen is listening to the programme.
BARRYBad news - she can have us all locked up in the tower.
TIMGood news - since the Sex Discrimination Act, they've had to have female Beefeaters.
BARRYBad news - they can't join until their over fifty-five.
WILLYGood news - that's not an age, it's a measurement.
WILLYGood news - Racquel Welsh came into my bedroom last night.
GRAEMEBad news - I wasn't there.
TIMGood news - I was in Brigitte Bardot's bedroom.
BARRYBad news - she wasn't there.
WILLYGood news - Jane Fonda was.
GRAEMEBad news - so was Henry.
TIMGood news - I've always fancied him.
HUMPHI'm glad you stopped there....stopped on the brink.
TIMBad news - he's going into show business.
BARRYGood news - as a human cannonball.
WILLYBad news - he's just been fired.
BARRYGood news - there are going to be more show business personalities in the Honours List.
TIMBad news - Max Bygraves is going to be knighted.
GRAEMEGood news - now that we've leaked the news, he won't be.
WILLYBad news - he's going to be a peer instead.
BARRYGood news - he's standing in the sea off Bournemouth.
TIMBad news - he's still singing.
GRAEMEGood news - that'll keep the oil tankers off the rocks.
WILLYBad news - Max has slipped his moorings and is drifting towards the Channel Islands.
BARRYGood news - the R.A.F. are going to disperse him with tons of underarm deoderant.
TIMBad news - he's still singing.
GRAEMEGood news - he's bringing out a new LP, "Sink-along-a-Max".
WILLYGood news - I bought a Chinese Takeaway meal last night.
BARRYBad news - before I could eat it, they took it away.
TIMGood news - half an hour later, they brought it back.
GRAEMEBad news - half an hour later, I brought it back.
WILLYGood news - I then went to a German Takeaway.
BARRYBad news - I could only eat the food they ordered.
TIMGood news - I went to an Irish Takeaway.
GRAEMEBad news - they forgot to bring the food.
WILLYGood news - I didn't want soup in a basket anyway.
BARRYBad news -I then went to a Russian Takeaway, and they took me away.
GRAEMEGood news - they've just invented a contraceptive pill for men.
TIMBad news - eight months gone and now he tells me !!
BARRYGood news - I got a hamster for my birthday.
WILLYBad news - fried !

Well, as we rapidly approach the bus stop of the apocalypse, I notice that four horsemen have all come along at the same time. And, as the vanquished char-woman of time begins to shake-n-vac the shagpile of eternity, I notice that we have just run out of time.