ISIRTA episodes and songs
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| Starring | Tim Brooke-Taylor John Cleese Graeme Garden David Hatch Jo Kendall Bill Oddie |
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ISIRTA episodes and songs: a list of episodes and sketches from the comedy radio series I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again, and the songs which were featured in the episodes.
The songs are listed after the episodes on which they were featured (the listing of songs is unfortunately incomplete). Also included, where known, are the names of the script writers of the episodes, as well as the names of the singers and songwriters.
The original episode titles are unknown for the following songs:
- "Baby Samba", "Ironing My Goldfish" and "Rock With A Policeman".
- "Blimpht" is listed under two episodes in a special recording of "Robin Hood" / "The Curse of the Flying Wombat".
- "Identikit Gal" is listed under two episodes in a special recording of "Robin Hood" / "The Curse of the Flying Wombat".
For information about the cast and characters of the episodes and sketches, please click on the episode titles.
Episodes
| Episode / Sketch title | ||||
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| Ali Baba and the 38 Thieves | "Just One of Those Things" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie | |
| Alice in Wonderland | ||||
| All Hands on Venus | "I'm Gonna Live" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie | |
| Angus Prune, Footballer | "Stop It, I Like It" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie | |
| Angus Prune Story | ||||
| Angus Sotherby's Detective Agency | ||||
| Audible Road Signs | ||||
| Beau Legs | ||||
| Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School | ||||
| Boadicea – The British Army | ||||
| Britain for the British (Ireland) | ||||
| Bunny and Claude | "Magical Mystery Four: I Am the Milkman" — (Beatles send-up) |
Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie | |
| Butler Dunnit | "Man's Best Friend - a Dog" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie | |
| Camelot (aka "Knights of the Round Table") | "Waiter, there's a Walrus in My Soup" | Bill Oddie (with introduction by David Hatch) |
Bill Oddie | |
| Catermole Sharp and Dr. Gaskit : (Sherlock Holmes) |
Busker song: "Knitting" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie | |
| Champion, the Wonder Mouse | "It's Spring" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie | |
| A Christmas Carrot | ||||
| Circus Life | ||||
| Cleopatra and Caesar | ||||
| The Colditz Story | ||||
| The Curse of the Flying Wombat - Part 1 | and Bill Oddie |
"The Ferret Song" | John Cleese and the Gang (alias: "The Lovin' Pruneful") |
John Cleese and Graham Chapman |
| The Curse of the Flying Wombat - Part 2 | and Bill Oddie |
"My Mom Has Lost My Dad" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
| The Curse of the Flying Wombat - Part 3 | and Bill Oddie |
"Where Is My Smile" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
| The Curse of the Flying Wombat - Part 4 | and Bill Oddie |
"Favourite Melody" (Beethoven's Fifth) | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
| The Curse of the Flying Wombat - Part 5 | and Bill Oddie |
"Recorded 'Live in Cabaret" (in the Cafe 'Ole') | Bill Oddie (with introduction by David Hatch) Night Club Compere: Tim Brooke-Taylor Recording Artist: Bill Oddie The four Diners: — John Cleese, David Hatch, — Tim Brooke-Taylor and Jo Kendall |
Bill Oddie |
| The Curse of the Flying Wombat - Part 6 | and Bill Oddie |
"With a Girl Like You: Wild Things" | Bill Oddie (with comment by David Hatch) |
Bill Oddie |
| The Curse of the Flying Wombat - Part 7 | and Bill Oddie |
"Working on the Railroad" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
| The Curse of the Flying Wombat - Part 8 | and Bill Oddie |
"The Ferrets of Old England" | Bill Oddie and 'the Gang' | Bill Oddie |
| The Curse of the Flying Wombat - Part 9 | and Bill Oddie |
"Baby Go To Sleep" (Lullaby) | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
| The Curse of the Flying Wombat - Part 10 | and Bill Oddie |
"I've Got the Hiccups" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
| The Curse of the Flying Wombat - Part 11 | and Bill Oddie |
"Man's Best Friend - a Duck" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
| The Curse of the Flying Wombat - Part 12 | and Bill Oddie |
"Yodelling Goatherd" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
| The Curse of the Flying Wombat - Part 13 | and Bill Oddie |
"I Love a Show" (Footlights) | Bill Oddie and 'the Gang' | Bill Oddie |
| The Curse of the Workington Shillelagh | ||||
| Dentisti (Animal dentist in Africa) |
"Taking My Oyster For Walkies" | Bill Oddie and 'the Gang' (with introduction by David Hatch) |
Bill Oddie | |
| Dick Whittington and His Wonderful Hat | ||||
| Doctor Clubfoot of the Antarctic | ||||
| Doctor Why and the Thing | "Let There Be" - Nuclear Submarine |
Bill Oddie - Bill Oddie, David Hatch, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor |
Bill Oddie - Bill Oddie | |
| Dr Zhivago and His Wonderful Lamp | and Bill Oddie |
"When You Wish Upon a Tzar" - "I'm Lenin on a Lamp-post at the Corner of the Street" - "Hey There, You With the Tzar in Your Pies" |
Bill Oddie - Bill Oddie - Bill Oddie |
Bill Oddie - Bill Oddie - Bill Oddie |
| England in Medieval Times (Ancient legends; Lady Godiva) |
"Chartered Accountant" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie | |
| England Our England (documentary / travelogue) |
"Protect My Honey On Her Journey: Send Her by Post" - Busker song: "Waiting for the London Bus" — (spiritual) |
Bill Oddie - Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and David Hatch |
Bill Oddie - Bill Oddie | |
| A Fairy Tale (Prince Valiant and Goldilocks / Tom Little-Finger - Frog Prince) |
"Aardvark, Ferret, Vulture" - "Something About Restaurant Food" |
Bill Oddie - Bill Oddie |
Bill Oddie - Bill Oddie | |
| First Pilot | ||||
| The Ghost of McMuckle Manse | ||||
| The Ghost of Objectionable Manor | "In the Moonlight" (Portuguese Dictionary Song) | Bill Oddie (with English translations by John Cleese) |
Bill Oddie | |
| Greek Tragedy | ||||
| Henry VIII | ||||
| History of Radio | ||||
| History of the British Army | ||||
| History of the Cinema | ||||
| Incompetence | "Trio Los Banditos" | Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor |
Bill Oddie | |
| The Inimitable Grimbling | "Why Can't the Animals" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie | |
| Interlude | ||||
| Inventors | ||||
| Jack and the Beanstalk | ||||
| Jack the Ripper | and Bill Oddie |
"Cactus In My Y-Fronts" | Bill Oddie (with Graeme Garden as the 'Yodelling Coyote') |
Bill Oddie |
| Jorrocks Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man | ||||
| Julius Caesar | "Police Constable Herbert Platt, Somerset Constabulary - Greatest Lawman of Them All" - "The Ship Put to Sea in the Month of May" (Madrigal for four voices and Tim Brooke-Taylor) |
Bill Oddie (with P.C. Herbert Platt: John Cleese) - David Hatch, Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, Jo Kendall and Tim Brooke-Taylor |
Bill Oddie - Eric Idle and John Cameron | |
| Laurence of Arabia - On Ice | and Bill Oddie |
"The Terrapin Song" | Bill Oddie Bill Oddie |
Bill Oddie |
| The Libel Suit | ||||
| Liverpool the City | "Liverpool Girl" "Ferry Across the Mersey" (Liverpudlian Love Song) |
Bill Oddie Bill Oddie |
Bill Oddie Bill Oddie | |
| Long Range Weather Forecast | ||||
| The Lone Stranger | "Cricket Tranquiliser" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie | |
| Macbeth | "What a Wonderful World" | Bill Oddie Concerned friends: — Tim Brooke-Taylor and David Hatch Doctor: John Cleese Nurse: Jo Kendall |
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| Marriage Bureau | ||||
| Moll Flounders | "The Masochism Song" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie | |
| My Man, Grimbling | ||||
| Nibble on the Bone | ||||
| Operation Chocolate | ||||
| Othello | "Joke Song" | Bill Oddie (with the other joke by John Cleese) |
Bill Oddie | |
| People Are Out | ||||
| Professor Prune And The Electric Time Trousers (a serial) |
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| Radio Prune Awards | ||||
| RAF Briefing | "I Love Youooo" (Yippee) - "She's Gone" |
Jean Hart and Bill Oddie - sung by Bill Oddie and 'the Gang' with comment by Jean Hart) |
Bill Oddie - Bill Oddie | |
| The Ramond Nostril Story | ||||
| Report on Schools | ||||
| Review of the Pops | ||||
| The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire | ||||
| The Roaring Twenties | ||||
| Robin Hood | "My Baby's Become a Folk Singer" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie | |
| Robinson Prunestone | "Bounce" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie | |
| Search for the Nile | and Bill Oddie |
"In the Old Bazaar in Cairo" | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
| Son of the Bride of Frankenstein | ||||
| Song of the South | ||||
| Star Trek | and Bill Oddie |
"When You Wish Upon a Star" - "Sick Man Blues" |
Bill Oddie and Jo Kendall - Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor |
- - Bill Oddie |
| The Supernatural | "Rhubarb Tart" "Meet Me in the Churchyard, Nellie" |
Bill Oddie and 'the Gang' Bill Oddie |
Bill Oddie Bill Oddie | |
| Take Your Pixie | ||||
| Tales of the Old West | ||||
| The Taming of the Shrew | ||||
| Teddy and Rupert Bear | "We're Going to a Football Match" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie | |
| The Telephone | ||||
| Ten Thousand BC (The Dawn of Civilization) | "Keep Fit Class" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie | |
| "Tim Brown's Schooldays" | "Take It Off" (dieting) | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie | |
| 20,000 Leaks Under the Sea | ||||
| The Unexplained | ||||
| Universal Challenge | ||||
| The Vikings | "Reminiscences" (Nappy Days) | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie | |
| Voyages of Ulysses | "Telephone Directory" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie | |
| Watergate | ||||
| William Tell | "Repeat After Me" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie | |
| William the Conqueror | ||||
| World of Sport | ||||