Im Sorry I Havent a Clue at The Lowry 6th April

The Radio 4 antidote to panel shows creates an evening of gentle British comedy.

I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue has been a staple part of  Radio 4 programming since it was first broadcast in 1972 and regularly features prominent comics such as Paul Merton, Sandy Tostvig and Stephen Fry alongside the regular team of Humphrey Lyttelton, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Barry Cryer.

When the show first aired, radio and television programming was overrun with panel shows in which four celebrities would play old-fashioned parlour games under the guidance of an overbearing host. I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue parodied this, substituting celebrities for comics and replacing the well-known games with the likes of Mornington Crescent - a game in which the contestants must find their way to the fictitious tube station without breaking any of the hideously complicated rules of the game, even the ones they don't know about yet.

Other favourites included Swannee Kazoo, in which the swannee whistle and dulcet tones of the kazoo join together in a duet; One Song to the Tune of Another (which is surprisingly hard); Name that Barcode and Famous Last Words.

The satirical edge of the show may have dulled slightly as panel shows are replaced by reality television and cookery programmes, but I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue continues to attract a huge following among radio and theatre audiences.