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" 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 | Script Writers | Song Titles | Singers | Songwriters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agatha Sotheby's Detective Thriller | — | "A Man’s Best Friend Is His Hound" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
| Ali Baba and the 38 Thieves | — | "Just One of Those Things" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
| Alice in Wonderland | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie |
— | — | — |
| All Hands on Venus | — | "I'm Gonna Live" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
| Angus Prune, Footballer | Tim Brooke-Taylor, Eric Idle, Clive James, and Bill Oddie |
"Stop It, I Like It" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
| "These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)" | Bill Oddie (with interruptions by Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, and Jo Kendall) |
Jack Strachey and Eric Maschwitz | ||
| Angus Prune Story | — | — | — | — |
| Ballet Commentary | Humphrey Barclay, Brian Cooke, Chick Jacob, Les Liddy, David Lund, David McKellar, Johnnie Mortimer, Bill Oddie, Peter Vincent, and Hugh Woodhouse |
"Ain't Got Rhythm" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
| "The House of the Rising Sun" | Graeme Garden, with Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie (as The Tillingbourne Folk & Madrigal Society) |
Traditional, arr. Graeme Garden | ||
| Battle Of The Whispering Mouse | Brian Cooke, Graeme Garden, David McKellar, Johnnie Mortimer, Bill Oddie, and Peter Vincent |
"If Folk Singers Went to College" (with interpolations of "Eton Boating Song", "The Charge of the Light Brigade", and "Ball of Kerrymuir") |
Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, and Jo Kendall | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie |
| Beau Legs | Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, Jo Kendall, and Bill Oddie |
"Persecuting Pigeons in Trafalgar Square" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
| "Il Budgerigar from Covent Garden" | John Cleese, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Jo Kendall, and Bill Oddie | Graeme Garden | ||
| Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie |
"Musical Football Results" | David Hatch | Bill Oddie |
| "Nigel Carter-Smith’s Society Band" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie | ||
| Boadicea – The British Army | — | — | — | — |
| Britain for the British (Ireland) | — | — | — | — |
| Bunny and Claude | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie |
"Magical Mystery Bore: I Am the Milkman" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
| "The Ballad of Bunny and Claude" | Graeme Garden and the Cast | 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 |
| Canterbury Tales | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie |
"Sunday Evening" | Bill Oddie, with Tim Brooke-Taylor (as Lady Constance de Coverlet), John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, and Jo Kendall | Bill Oddie |
| The Case of the Workington Shillelagh | John Esmonde, Graeme Garden, Bob Larbey, David McKellar, Bill Oddie, and Peter Vincent |
"Knitting Song" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
| "BLIMPHT" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie | ||
| Champion, the Wonder Mouse | — | "Spring, Spring, Spring" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
| A Christmas Carrot | — | — | — | — |
| Circus Life | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie |
"Ironing My Goldfish" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
| Cleopatra and Caesar | Lizzie Evans, Eric Idle, and Bill Oddie with Graham Chapman and Derek Farmer |
"Drinking Song" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
| The Colditz Story | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie with Tim Brooke-Taylor |
"Cloughie (Bring Back Brian Clough)" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
| The Curse of the Flying Wombat - Part 1 | John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, and Clive James |
"The Ferret Song" | John Cleese and the Cast (as The Lovin' Pruneful) |
John Cleese and Graham Chapman |
| The Curse of the Flying Wombat - Part 2 | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie |
"My Mom Has Lost My Dad" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
| The Curse of the Flying Wombat - Part 3 | Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, and Bill Oddie with Peter Hutchins and Leslie Sellers |
"Where Is My Smile" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
| The Curse of the Flying Wombat - Part 4 | Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, Eric Idle, and Bill Oddie with Andy Smith and Don Carroll |
"Favourite Melody" (Beethoven's Fifth) | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
| The Curse of the Flying Wombat - Part 5 | Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman, Graeme Garden, Eric Idle, 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 | Graeme Garden 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 | Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Eric Idle, Ian Lang, and Bill Oddie |
"Working on the Railroad" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
| The Curse of the Flying Wombat - Part 8 | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie |
"The Ferrets of Old England" | Bill Oddie and 'the Gang' | Bill Oddie |
| The Curse of the Flying Wombat - Part 9 | Graham Chapman, Graeme Garden, Eric Idle, and Bill Oddie |
"Baby Go To Sleep" (Lullaby) | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
| The Curse of the Flying Wombat - Part 10 | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie |
"I've Got the Hiccups" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
| The Curse of the Flying Wombat - Part 11 | Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie |
"Blues Song" | Tim Brooke-Taylor and David Hatch | Bill Oddie |
| "Man's Best Friend - a Duck" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie | ||
| The Curse of the Flying Wombat - Part 12 | Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Eric Idle, and Bill Oddie |
"Yodelling Goatherd" | Bill Oddie, with Tim Brooke-Taylor (as Lady Constance de Coverlet) and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
| The Curse of the Flying Wombat - Part 13 | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie |
"I Love a Show" (Footlights) | Bill Oddie and 'the Gang' | Bill Oddie |
| Dentisti (Animal dentist in Africa) |
Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, and Bill Oddie |
"Taking My Oyster For Walkies" | Bill Oddie and the Cast (with introduction by David Hatch) |
Bill Oddie |
| Dick Whittington and His Wonderful Hat | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie |
"Spring, Spring, Spring" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
| "We're Going to a Football Match" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie | ||
| "The Music of the Dawn" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie | ||
| "I Love You" | Jo Kendall and John Cleese | Bill Oddie | ||
| "The Flippity Floppity Bunny Song" | Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie | ||
| "We're All Going to Die" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie | ||
| "Hope You've Had a Very Merry Christmas" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie | ||
| Doctor Clubfoot of the Antarctic | — | — | — | — |
| Doctor Why and the Thing | Brian Cooke, John Esmonde, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Eric Idle, Bob Larbey, Johnnie Mortimer, and Bill Oddie |
"Let There Be Love" | Bill Oddie | Lionel Rand and Ian Grant |
| "Nuclear Submarine" | Bill Oddie, David Hatch, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor | Bill Oddie | ||
| Dr. Zhivago and His Wonderful Lamp | Graeme Garden 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 Our England (documentary / travelogue) |
John Esmonde, Clive James, Bob Larbey, David McKellar, Bill Oddie, and Peter Vincent |
"Don't Let It Rain on My Baby" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
| "Waiting for the London Bus" | Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, and David Hatch | Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie | ||
| First Pilot | — | — | — | — |
| The Ghost of McMuckle Manse | Simon Brett, Derek Farmer, Graeme Garden, and Bill Oddie |
"I Wish You Love" | Bill Oddie (with interruptions by Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden) |
Léo Chauliac, Charles Trenet, and Albert Askew Beach |
| The Ghost of Objectionable Manor | Tim Brooke-Taylor, David Hatch, Derek Farmer, and Bill Oddie |
"In the Moonlight" (Portuguese Dictionary Song) | Bill Oddie (with English translations by John Cleese) |
Bill Oddie |
| Greek Tragedy | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie |
"Football Chants" | Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, and Jo Kendall (as The Tillingbourne Folk & Madrigal Society) |
Bill Oddie |
| Grimm Fairy Tale (Princess Goldilocks and the Perverted Goblins) |
Graeme Garden, Eric Idle, Bill Oddie, and Andy Smith |
"Aardvark, Ferret, Vulture" | John Cleese and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
| "Something About Restaurant Food (Garcon, Garcon)" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie | ||
| The Harder They Fall, the More They Hurt Themselves | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie |
"Bradford Girls" | Bill Oddie and the Cast (alias: The Seaside Fellas) |
Bill Oddie |
| Henry VIII | Graeme Garden, Jo Kendall, and Bill Oddie |
"We Are The Lads Of The M.C.C." | Bill Oddie, with Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and David Hatch | Bill Oddie |
| History of Radio | — | — | — | — |
| History of the British Army | Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, and Bill Oddie |
"I Like Singing in the Bathtub" | Bill Oddie (with Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, and David Hatch as soldiers in a submarine) |
Bill Oddie |
| History of the Cinema | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie |
"Sisters" | Tim Brooke-Taylor (as The De Coverlet Sisters) | Irving Berlin |
| "Let's Laugh" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie | ||
| "The Show Must Go On And On And On" | Bill Oddie and the Cast (with Tim Brooke-Taylor as Lady Constance de Coverlet and Graeme Garden as Arnold Totteridge) |
Bill Oddie | ||
| Incompetence | Simon Brett, Graeme Garden, and Bill Oddie |
"You'll Feel Much Worse" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
| "Trio Los Banditos" | Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, 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 | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie |
"Cactus In My Y-Fronts" | Bill Oddie and Graeme Garden | Bill Oddie |
| Jorrocks Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie |
"Thud-Bang-Bang-Wobble-Wobble-Bong (Eurovision Song)" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
| Julius Caesar | Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, Alan Hutchinson, Eric Idle, and Bill Oddie |
"Police Constable Herbert Platt, Somerset Constabulary - Greatest Lawman of Them All" |
Bill Oddie (with John Cleese as P.C. Herbert Platt) |
Bill Oddie |
| "The Ship Put to Sea in the Month of May" (Madrigal for four voices and Tim Brooke-Taylor) |
Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, and Bill Oddie | Eric Idle and John Cameron | ||
| Lady Godiva | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie |
"Chartered Accountant" | Bill Oddie and the Cast (with John Cleese as the chartered accountant) |
Bill Oddie |
| Laurence of Arabia - On Ice | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie |
"The Terrapin Song" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
| Liverpool the City | Eric Idle and Bill Oddie |
"Liverpool Girl" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
| "Ferry Across the Mersey (Liverpudlian Love Song)" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie | ||
| Long Range Weather Forecast | — | — | — | — |
| The Lone Stranger | — | "Cricket Tranquiliser" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
| Lost Eskimos of the South Pole | David Hatch and Bill Oddie |
"If I Were the Only Girl in the World" | Jo Kendall | Nat D. Ayer and Clifford Grey |
| "Professional Work Song" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie | ||
| Macbeth | Derek Farmer, Graeme Garden, and Bill Oddie |
"What a Wonderful World" | Bill Oddie, with: Concerned friends – Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden Doctor – John Cleese Nurse – Jo Kendall |
Bob Thiele and George David Weiss |
| "Down on Melody Farm" | Bill Oddie and the Cast (with Tim Brooke-Taylor as Constance the Chicken, Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, and David Hatch as Marty Mutton and the Baa-Liners, and John Cleese as a mouse) |
Bill Oddie | ||
| Marriage Bureau | — | — | — | — |
| Mike Spanner, Private Eye | Brian Cooke, Graeme Garden, Chick Jacob, Les Liddy, Johnnie Mortimer, and Bill Oddie |
"After the Fall" | Bill Oddie and Jean Hart | Bill Oddie |
| "The Wind" | Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, and Bill Oddie (as The Tillingbourne Folk & Madrigal Society) |
Bill Oddie | ||
| "The Freedom Day" | Bill Oddie and Jean Hart | Bill Oddie | ||
| Moll Flounders | — | "The Masochism Song" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
| Murder On The 3:17 To Cleethorpes | Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, and Bill Oddie |
"Stuff That Gibbon" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
| My Man, Grimbling | — | — | — | — |
| Nibble on the Bone | — | — | — | — |
| Oklahoma | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie |
"Nappy Love" | Bill Oddie, with Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor | Bill Oddie |
| Operation Chocolate | John Cleese and Bill Oddie |
"Julie Andrews" | Bill Oddie and the Cast (with exclamations by Graeme Garden) |
Bill Oddie |
| Othello | — | "Joke Song" | Bill Oddie (with the other joke by John Cleese) |
Bill Oddie |
| People Are Out | — | — | — | — |
| Professor Prune And The Electric Time Trousers - Part 1 | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie |
"Knees" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
| Professor Prune And The Electric Time Trousers - Part 2 | — | "We're All Going on a Hovercraft Ride" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
| Professor Prune And The Electric Time Trousers - Part 3 | — | — | — | — |
| Professor Prune And The Electric Time Trousers - Part 4 | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie with John Cleese and John Junkin |
"The Ballad of Oliver Cromwell" | John Cleese and the Cast | John Cleese and Frédéric Chopin |
| Professor Prune And The Electric Time Trousers - Part 5 | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie with Simon Brett |
"She's Gone" | Bill Oddie and the Cast (with spoken part by Jo Kendall) |
Bill Oddie |
| Professor Prune And The Electric Time Trousers - Part 6 | — | — | — | — |
| Professor Prune And The Electric Time Trousers - Part 7 | — | — | — | — |
| Professor Prune And The Electric Time Trousers - Part 8 | — | — | — | — |
| Professor Prune And The Electric Time Trousers - Part 9 | — | — | — | — |
| Professor Prune And The Electric Time Trousers - Part 10 | — | — | — | — |
| Professor Prune And The Electric Time Trousers - Part 11 | — | — | — | — |
| Professor Prune And The Electric Time Trousers - Part 12 | — | — | — | — |
| Professor Prune And The Electric Time Trousers - Part 13 | — | — | — | — |
| Radio Prune Awards | — | — | — | — |
| RAF Briefing | — | "I Love Youooo" (Yippee) | Jean Hart and Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
| "She's Gone" | Bill Oddie and the Cast (with spoken word by Jean Hart) |
Bill Oddie | ||
| The Ramond Nostril Story | — | — | — | — |
| Report on Schools | — | — | — | — |
| The Return of the Son of the Bride of Frankenstein | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie |
"The Brew That We All Love the Most" | Bill Oddie, John Cleese, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, and David Hatch (with objections from Jo Kendall) |
Graeme Garden |
| Review of the Pops | — | — | — | — |
| The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire | — | — | — | — |
| The Roaring Twenties | John Cleese and Bill Oddie |
"We're Going to a Football Match" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
| Robin Hood | — | "My Baby's Become a Folk Singer" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
| Robinson Prunestone | Simon Brett, Rowling Baker, Graeme Garden, and Jo Kendall |
"Bounce" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
| Search for the Nile | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie |
"The Masochist's Rag" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
| "In the Old Bazaar in Cairo" | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie | Charlie Chester, K. Morris, Clinton Ford, Bill Oddie | ||
| Song of the South | — | — | — | — |
| Star Trek | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie |
"Sick Man Blues" | Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor | Bill Oddie |
| The Supernatural | — | "Rhubarb Tart" | Bill Oddie and 'the Gang' | Bill Oddie |
| "Meet Me in the Churchyard, Nellie" | 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 | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie |
"Silence" | Bill Oddie and the Cast (as The Confirmed Bachelors) |
Graeme Garden |
| Ten Thousand BC (The Dawn of Civilization) | — | "Keep Fit Class" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
| Tim Brown's Schooldays | Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, Eric Idle and Bill Oddie |
"Take It Off" (dieting) | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
| 20,000 Leaks Under the Sea | Graeme Garden, Peter Kemp, and Bill Oddie |
"TV Themes Song" | Bill Oddie and the Cast (as The Tillingbourne Folk & Madrigal Society) |
Bill Oddie |
| The Unexplained | — | — | — | — |
| Universal Challenge | — | — | — | — |
| The Vikings | Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie, and Douglas Young |
"The Good Old Days" | Bill Oddie and Graeme Garden | 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 | — | — | — | — |
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