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
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