Willie Rushton he was an established guest on quiz shows and celebrity panel games: "Celebrity Squares", "Blankety Blank", "Countdown" and "Through the Keyhole". When asked why he appeared on these "ludicrous programmes", his answer was simple: "Because I meet everybody there". For 22 years until his death, he was a panellist in the long-running BBC Radio 4 panel comedy game show "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue", which he joined as a regular team member in the third series in 1974. In its later years, the show's wealth of silliness, smut and punning was drawing audiences of up to a thousand people
BBC Radio 2 significant amounts of comedy and sport. Notable broadcasters on Radio 2 in the 70s and 80s were Tom Edwards and Ray Moore who both singly presented the early breakfast show, Terry Wogan on breakfast, replaced by Ken Bruce and later Derek Jameson; Jimmy Young and his lunchtime news and current affairs show; 'Diddy' David Hamilton on mid-afternoons, John Dunn at what became known as drivetime. On Monday 6 January 1975, the broadcasting hours for BBC Radio 2 were reduced due to budget cuts at the BBC. The former 5am2am schedule was reduced to a 6am start up Mondays to Saturdays