I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue who has worked on the show since 1992. "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" developed from the long-running radio sketch show "I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again", the writers of which were John Cleese, Jo Kendall, David Hatch, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor and especially Graeme Garden who suggested the idea of an unscripted show which, it was decided, would take the form of a parody panel game. A panel game with no competition was not itself a new idea: the BBC had a history of successful quiz shows designed to allow witty celebrities to entertain where winning was not important.
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