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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 listening for nearly half a century. Hired in 1993 by a new producer, Jon Naismith, Pattinson furnished ...

Iain Pattinson obituary Simon O'Hagan © 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 longtime producer Jon Naismith as “the best radio comedy scriptwriter of his generation”. His ...