I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again the pilot programme having been broadcast on 30 December 1963 under the title "Cambridge Circus". The ninth, final series was transmitted in November and December 1973, with fewer episodes (eight instead of the earlier thirteen per series). An hour-long 25th anniversary show was broadcast in 1989. It is comically introduced as "full frontal radio". "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue", a spinoff panel game show, was first produced in 1972. The title of the show comes from a sentence commonly used by BBC newsreaders following an on-air flub: "I'm sorry, I'll read that again." Having the phrase used to recover
Rough for Radio I it, so to speak.” In "Rough for Radio I", the voice and the music are switched on and off "as if" they are being broadcast simultaneously on two separate radio stations. The same idea is presented in "Cascando", but there the voice and the music do not seem to derive from an external source. Very much as the sound of the sea is in "Embers", in "Radio I", as it is sometimes called, “[m]usic is not, as usual, merely functional (for instance, as intermezzo, background music or even worse, quite simply a creator of atmosphere), but […] is allotted an