British comedy use of the panel game format, including the long-running "Just a Minute" (from 1967 to date) and "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" (from 1972), and The News Quiz (from 1977), which often broadcast a dozen of so episodes a year, normally split over two series broadcast at different points in the year. The success of the panel show format has in turn has influenced TV series like "Have I Got News for You" (from 1990), "They Think It's All Over" (from 1995) and Mock the Week (from 2005). . BBC Radio has continued to be a breeding ground for
Rough for Radio I Rough for Radio I Rough for Radio I is a short radio play by Samuel Beckett, written in French in 1961 and first published in "Minuit" 5 in September 1973 as Esquisse radiophonique. Its first English publication as Sketch for Radio Play was in "Stereo Headphones" 7 (spring 1976). It first appeared under its current title in "Ends and Odds" (Grove 1976, Faber 1977). “Plans for a BBC production, with Humphrey Searle providing the music, were made soon after the publication of the original French version but came to nothing and a later BBC proposal to produce the play without