Hamish and Dougal Hamish and Dougal Hamish and Dougal are two characters from the long-running BBC Radio 4 radio comedy panel game "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue", played by Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden, who later went on to have their own Radio 4 series, You'll Have Had Your Tea: The Doings of Hamish and Dougal. The series is occasionally broadcast on the BBC's repeat channel, Radio Four Extra. The fictional characters Hamish and Dougal originated in one of the rounds of "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" called Sound Charades. In this round the title of a book or film has
BBC Radio Comedy Writers Bursary BBC Radio Comedy Writers Bursary The BBC Radio Comedy Writers' Bursary (or the BBC Radio Comedy Department Contract Writer) is a scheme through which emerging comedy writers work in-house at the BBC Radio Comedy department for a year. The scheme began in 1978 and was devised by the then-head of Head of BBC Light Entertainment (Radio), David Hatch, and BBC Television's Head of Light Entertainment, James Gilbert. Each department put £5000 a year into a kitty to employ three young writers on a one-year contract. The only proviso was that there was to be no contract for a second year,