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Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie star in highlights from the groundbreaking BBC Radio series. Described by Barry Took as 'A kaleidoscope of funny voices, catch phrase and innuendo revolving at breakneck speed and with a complete disregard for logic', "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again" pre-dated "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" and showcased the comic talents of Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie. This compilation of classic sketches, includes "Full Frontal Radio", "Prune Manifesto", "Buffers", "Critics", "News in Welsh", "Listening to Flowers", "Eddie Waring Impersonation" and "Taming of the Shrew" - all on a special vinyl-look CD. Vintage Beeb: classic albums first available as BBC LPs, now reissued on CD.
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Part of that long history of nonsense radio comedies from the BBC stretching all the way back from Round the Horne and The Goodies to the present day, I'm Sorry I'll Read that Again is one of those Bovril shows you'll either love or hate, though even its admirers will probably be disappointed by this compilation. Because it was original released as an LP there's an emphasis on musical content, often more energetic than good, with the immortal Persecuting Pigeons in Trafalgar Square (`With my loaf of Mother's Pride/And a pinch of cyanide) sadly absent - which brings up another problem: most of the show's best remembered sketches aren't here either while those that are form a very inconsistent bunch. Some sketches, like the senile BBC censors, date back to Round the Horne while others, like the News in Welsh, would be reworked years later as the faulty alien translator in Not the Nine O'Clock News, marking it as a kind of sandwich show, stuck between the shows that influenced it and the kind of shows that would follow it. The biggest problem is that what's here just isn't funny often enough. True, the show itself was wildly inconsistent, but the advantage of a compilation album is you can separate the wheat from the chaff. Sadly, like many vintage BBC comedy LPs, they seem to have got that the wrong way round this time...
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I must say before I start reviewing this that I am huge fan of the radio series that spawned this album, and have been waiting for years for the BBC to get around to publishing it on CD, so I have to declare a distinct bias in its favour.
`I'm sorry, I'll read that again' was an immensely popular radio show running from 1963 to 1973. In the early `70s the cast and writers were tired of the strain of writing and recording new material, and so created the improvisation show `I'm Sorry, I haven't A Clue' which had humour in a similar vein but was easier to produce.
Starring John Cleese, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, David Hatch and Jo Kendall, the show was based around a fictitious radio station, Radio Prune. Dedicated to promoting world peace, harmony and dirty jokes, each week we were treated to a range of humorous advertising jingles, songs, announcements and news broadcasts all stuffed full of bad jokes and the world's worst puns. Not surprisingly, given the cast and writers, the material is much like a cross between the Goodies and Monty Python. The culmination of each episode was Prune Playhouse, in which a humorous play based around a well known story play would be presented.
This recording was made after the series went off air, and recycled bits and pieces of old scripts. It is an hour long rather than the usual 30 minute episodes, and allows for quite a bit to be crammed in. It is all done at a quickfire pace however, so the hour passes quickly.
Some of the material earlier in the programme is a bit topical to the early `70s, and misses the mark a little today. Most of it is still hilarious though. And the centrepiece, the Prune Playhouse production of `Taming of the Shrew', is a masterpiece. Ironically, John Cleese plays Petrucchio, a role he would play straight a few years later for the BBC production of the proper play. The Prune play is a masterclass in puns and bad jokes, and, to top it, the well known characters of Lady Constance and Grimbling make a very welcome appearance.
The sound quality is pretty good, with a decent remastering and restoration job being done. The liner notes are those from the original LP sleeve, and there is nothing else. It is an excellent release, and for a fan like me very very welcome. I sincerely hope that there will be enough interes in this to prompt the BBC to release the entire series episode by episode as they have with the Goons, Navy Lark and Round the Horne. It is criminal that there has been no ISIRTA on CD at all up until now.
`I'm sorry, I'll read that again' was an immensely popular radio show running from 1963 to 1973. In the early `70s the cast and writers were tired of the strain of writing and recording new material, and so created the improvisation show `I'm Sorry, I haven't A Clue' which had humour in a similar vein but was easier to produce.
Starring John Cleese, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, David Hatch and Jo Kendall, the show was based around a fictitious radio station, Radio Prune. Dedicated to promoting world peace, harmony and dirty jokes, each week we were treated to a range of humorous advertising jingles, songs, announcements and news broadcasts all stuffed full of bad jokes and the world's worst puns. Not surprisingly, given the cast and writers, the material is much like a cross between the Goodies and Monty Python. The culmination of each episode was Prune Playhouse, in which a humorous play based around a well known story play would be presented.
This recording was made after the series went off air, and recycled bits and pieces of old scripts. It is an hour long rather than the usual 30 minute episodes, and allows for quite a bit to be crammed in. It is all done at a quickfire pace however, so the hour passes quickly.
Some of the material earlier in the programme is a bit topical to the early `70s, and misses the mark a little today. Most of it is still hilarious though. And the centrepiece, the Prune Playhouse production of `Taming of the Shrew', is a masterpiece. Ironically, John Cleese plays Petrucchio, a role he would play straight a few years later for the BBC production of the proper play. The Prune play is a masterclass in puns and bad jokes, and, to top it, the well known characters of Lady Constance and Grimbling make a very welcome appearance.
The sound quality is pretty good, with a decent remastering and restoration job being done. The liner notes are those from the original LP sleeve, and there is nothing else. It is an excellent release, and for a fan like me very very welcome. I sincerely hope that there will be enough interes in this to prompt the BBC to release the entire series episode by episode as they have with the Goons, Navy Lark and Round the Horne. It is criminal that there has been no ISIRTA on CD at all up until now.
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A nice CD for listeners to reminisce about a program very definitely forming part of the comedy revolution of the 60s and 70s. I enjoyed the recordings as a nostalgia piece though and whilst it was a fun ride once, it's not a disc I will be revisiting very often. Sadly I found the mix of music and skits a little grating and of course, from its time the subject matter was dated and perhaps more dated then its contemporary programs.
So a nice way to listen to comedy being developed but not as a finished item.
So a nice way to listen to comedy being developed but not as a finished item.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Funny if...
Wasn't overly amused by this. It doesn't have the timeless comedy qualities of some of the other radio comedies of the period and it lacks the inventiveness of some of the... Read more
Published 11 days ago by Michael Jacobs
I'm sorry I bothered.
I've had the unfortunate experience recently of having listened to a few BBC compilations from the Vintage Beeb collection, and finding that there is a lot of bad judgement being... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Guitar Heroine
Old school comedy
I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again was a BBC radio series that ran for 10 years from 1963. Featuring amongst others the comedians Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke Taylor who... Read more
Published 4 months ago by D. Evans
Angus is Back!
It is hard to believe that so many comedians who would come to dominate British comedy could be in one place at one time, yet so it was. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Lewis Graham
Oh dear...
There is very little upside to writing a review of this CD - those who remember hearing and enjoying this program first time round seem to take huge exception to people who are... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Supertzar
Gloriously silly
I have loved the wonderful, silly comedy of the fabulous men who brought us The Goodies and Monty Python for many years. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Mrs. Margaret Gallaghrt
Nostalgic? Then maybe it's ok. Otherwise, avoid.
Hmmm... a comedy CD, that didn't make me laugh, smile or even smirk, even once - actually, that's not true - the start of one song did make me smirk for a moment, but it was really... Read more
Published 12 months ago by J. S. Hardman
nostalgia...
good to hear these excerpts again after more than 40 years, but inevitably i suppose I did not find as funny as when i was 16.
Published 12 months ago by pompeyman
A Glimpse of Laugher
'I'm Sorry I'll Read that Again' is the grandfather of BBC radio comedy. Wonderfully anarchic, this CD contains some of the funniest moments of the series. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Mr. Gtj Charmley
Brilliantly Funny!!!
I love classic BBC radio comedy, and this collection is a perfect example of why. Staring the Goodies before they were known as the comdey troupe, pre-python John Cleese and few... Read more
Published 13 months ago by James Cameron
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