Author:BBC,Tim Brooke-Taylor,Barry Cryer,Graeme Garden,Jack Dee,Harry Hill,Sandi Toksvig,Miles Jupp,Omid Djalili
Four more extended episodes from the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series, specially compiled by producer Jon Naismith
'ISIHAC is still unmissable. It remains the most thrillingly anarchic panel show in any media you care to name' Simon Mayo, Mail on Sunday
‘The funniest comedy quiz show of them all’ Sue Arnold, The Observer
Welcome to the seventeenth collection of episodes from the famous antidote to panel games. Jack Dee challenges regular panelists Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden with a series of silly games against which to pit their wits, along with special guests Harry Hill, Sandi Toksvig, Omid Djalili and Miles Jupp.
Highlights include Word for Word, Alien Duets, Swanee Kazoo, Meat Eater’s Songbook, In My Pants, Mornington Crescent, Not My Fault, Pig Farmer’s Songbook, Specialist Greetings Cards, Unsuccessful Charities, Dentists’ Film Club and the ever-popular One Song to the Tune of Another.
Enjoy this fine feast of wit and wordplay, accompanied by Colin Sell on the piano and with the lovely Samantha keeping score.
Credits
In the Chair……………..Jack Dee
Round the Table………..Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden
With Harry Hill, Sandi Toksvig, Omid Djalili andMiles Jupp
At the Piano………………Colin Sell
Programme consultant: Iain Pattinson
Produced by Jon Naismith
Compiled by Jon Naismith, Megan Landon andGraeme Garden
What a lovely writer he is: funny. modest, unsentimental and utterly without self-pity . . . warmth, wit and honesty make this such a satisfying read.
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