Product Description

The I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue team of Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor, in the company of their esteemed chairman Humphrey Lyttelton, have been recording their BBC radio show around the UK for longer than any of them can remember ...that's about a week - or twenty minutes in the case of Barry Cryer. At each venue Humph would present a short history of the location, written by Iain Pattinson, to the mutual delight of the audience, the team and their delightful scorer Samantha (who somehow always found time for a rewarding poke around the area's backstreets). We are privileged to present, in gazetteer form, the very best of Humph's local histories form Radio 4's multi award-winning 'antidote to panel games'. As accurate as "Wikipedia" and as comprehensive as "Reader's Digest", this unique guide tells you everything you never knew you wouldn't ever need to know about the background and inhabitants of Britain's most prominent towns and cities. The intelligent reader will waste no time in adding it to their collection. Bristol It was from Bristol in 1497 that John Cabot set off to find a new route to the Spice Islands by sailing north-west. He instead discovered a strange, hostile world which he named 'Newfoundland', until the natives explained that they actually called it 'Swansea'. Nottingham It's well documented in official records that the city's original name was 'Snottingham' or 'home of Snotts', but when the Normans came, they couldn't pronounce the initial letter 'S', so decreed the town be called 'Nottingham'or the 'home of Notts'. It's easy to understand why this change was resisted so fiercely by the people of Scunthorpe. Brighton a settlement is first recorded in Brighton as long as ago as 3000 BC, when Celtic Druids practised their ancient worship of oaks, mistletoe and virgins, and indeed, oaks and mistletoe are still plentiful in Brighton.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3598 in Books
• Published on: 2009-09-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 230 pages

Customer Reviews

A good chuckle for "Clue" addicts
this book is a compendium of all the "venue histories" delivered by Humph at the start of ISIHAC. Devotees will hear Humph's voice and try to emulate his fabulous delivery.
fun to read, you can dip in and out, read it from cover to cover or pick out places you know.
The one thing that I would change is to add the broadcast date, as the jokes include topical references.
but it's fun, I was given it for my birthday and am going to get it for "Clue" fans for Xmas.

I'm Sorry I Haven't Stopped Laughing
If you have listened to the programmes over the years or on BBC7, this will bring it all back. Read it on the train when you visit the towns but be prepared to be thrown off; the descriptions of the towns make you smile, snigger and even guffaw out loud. Well done the author! You can hear Humph in every word, a worthy present for any ISIHAC listener.