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Im Sorry I Havent A Clue companion is released on audiobook - To mark 50 years of the Radio 4 stalwart

Innuendo, tone-deaf singing and dreadful wages: as the cherished BBC panel game celebrates its half century, we look back at its finest moments – and its future

His timeless, immortal comedy stayed vital to the last.

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Iain Pattinson, scriptwriter on I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue, ‘the antidote to panel games’ – obituary A purveyor of what Humphrey Lyttelton called ‘blue-chip filth’, he left a high-flying career behind to join the anarchic radio show Iain Pattinson Credit: PA   Iain Pattinson, who has died from leukaemia aged 68, was the scriptwriter behind I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue, the anarchic “antidote to panel games” on Radio 4, famous for its smutty jokes that have made it cult list...

Iain Pattinson obituary Simon OHagan © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: PA In 2020 Radio Times magazine conducted a poll to find the greatest radio comedy show of all time. The No 1 spot that went to I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue, Radio 4’s long-running “antidote to panel games”, was as much a tribute to the show’s main scriptwriter, Iain Pattinson, as it was to any of its cherished voices. Pattinson, who has died aged 68 from leukaemia, was described by Clue’s...