A Lifetime's Dream Come True

Well, after thirty years I've done it! Yes, folks, my ambition of a lifetime has been realised. I have personally witnessed with my own eyes and ears a recording of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.
For those of you unenlightened folks across the world ISIHAC is a seriously senseless comedy panel game show on BBC Radio 4. There are very few rules - if any - in the "game". It's all senseless humour but to those of us aficionados who have followed it for the last 34 years it has become a cult. Games like "One Song to the Tune of Another", "Sound Charades" and, of course, the completely unfathomable "Mornington Crescent" have me - and millions of other listeners - rocking with uncontrolled laughter. You have to have a totally perverted sense of humour to even begin to appreciate the whole concept of the programme. The intro states that the team members are given "silly things to do" - and that's exactly what happens. Characters like Hamish and Dougal and, of course, the inimitable Mrs Trellis get the audience roaring with rib-aching laughter. And the invisible but incredibly sexy Samantha has all the men drooling. Held together by the ageing jazz trumpeter Humphrey Lyttelton, the show is side-splitting all the way through to those who have grown up with it. Admittedly the show is an acquired taste - you either love it or just don't understand what it's all about. But then, not really understanding is part of the charm of the whole concept.
But yes, I finally got tickets to go to a recording for the next series. I treated my wife as an early birthday present and Offspring Senior was able to come too. We all had a really great time and are now looking forward to hearing the two episodes recorded on the radio. That will happen on Monday May 22 which is, by happy coincidence my wife's actual birthday! You will be able to listen yourself wherever you are in the world from that date and for a week afterwards by going to www.bbc.co.uk/radio4 and going to the Listen Again page. You might even hear me and my family cheering our appreciation.