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28 October 2014
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The Panellists- Graeme, Tim and Barry

...Continued

Picture round now. The first picture is for Barry. (Interviewer hands Barry a photograph). Does that evoke any memories for you?

Barry: Yes, that was me and Johnny Vegas in the Weakest Link. We were the head-to-head finalists. Johnny won. I was just allowed by the younger ones to stay.
Tim: Why on Earth did you go on that?
Barry: I was asked to go on it. It was for charity, you see.
Tim: That's no excuse.
Barry: I do a lot of charity work.
Graeme: He does a lot of work for Vanity.
Graeme: (pointing to Anne Robinson in picture) Is that that dominatrix you like? Barry: Ah yes, she does stir your loins.
Tim: When she winks I flee to the country.
Graeme: (pointing to Johnny Vegas in picture) Why has Johnny Vegas got Mr Spock ears on?
Barry: Well, it was a comedian's edition. And I'm wearing a wig to make myself look older. It was quite an afternoon actually.
Tim: Comedian's edition?
Barry: Yes, comedian's edition.
Tim: Johnny Vegas?
Barry: Yes, but it was light and shade and I was on as well.

(Interviewer hands Graeme a photograph of himself, a man and a woman framed by a pair of human teeth.)
Graeme, what's going on there?

Graeme: Gosh, yes. That's Bodymatters which I used to co-present with Gillian Rice and Alan Maryon Davis and we took a trip round the human body.
Tim: Where did you end up?
Graeme: Well, we started there in the mouth and I'll leave the rest of it up to you! When we did the nose, we had Kenneth Williams sliding out of an enormous human nose and they wouldn't let me say, "Here comes the bogeyman".
Barry: Did the nostrils flare when he came out?

Interviewer: Graeme, being a doctor, do any of the other panellists come to you with their twinges?
Graeme: No, I'm pleased to say they don't. They wouldn't trust me, for goodness sakes.
Barry: You can't have an old friend as a doctor.
Tim: Graeme's very good at not actually treating us but saying either "go to the hospital" or "not".
Barry: He just says, "Don't do that" to me.

Interviewer: Tim...
Tim: ...Ooh hello, I thought I was getting out of this.
(Interviewer shows Tim a picture of The Goodies - Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie - all wearing red cloaks, on a stretch-bicycle.)

Tim: This was the 'Inbetweenies'. It was a popular song we (The Goodies) did in the 70s. It reached number seven in the Hit Parade. The cloaks were covering our costumes, which were split costumes. The one side was old fogey and the other side was glitter. I think we were probably on some very embarrassing programme.
Graeme: It could have been Blue Peter. We did all the pop shows.
Tim: The way we got onto Top of the Pops is that we agreed to do Crackerjack.

Is it conceivable that there could be more Goodies? And I don't leave Barry out of this because you've popped up in a few episodes as well.

Barry: Yes I did.
Graeme: Bless him.
Tim: Well, to be personal here, have a word with Jane Root who is head of BBC2. She keeps consistently saying, "No, I won't have them on".
Graeme: Well, you'll probably remember The Goodies was 30 years old last year and you'll remember celebrations..
Barry: Street parties!
Tim: And 30 years ago we won the Silver Rose of Montreux. Funnily enough, we seem to get passionate people about it now. I went to Australia, where they've carried on showing it, for a Goodies convention. All the people there were in there 20s and 30s which is, of course, the audience that the BBC desperately wants to get on board.

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