Graeme Garden Fanspace

Graeme Garden is a novelist, playwright, actor and presenter. He has scripted, directed and presented training and information films. He has even voiced cartoon characters! Graeme is also a team member for ‘I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue’, a program that he devised for BBC Radio 4 in the early 1970s.

Graeme studied Natural Sciences at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. While he was at Cambridge he joined The Footlights of which he became President in 1963. After graduating, Graeme began his clinical training at King's College Hospital in London. It was during this period that he began work on I’m Sorry I’ll Read That Again, a radio series with Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie and John Cleese among others. After he qualified as a doctor, he was offered a part in a television comedy series, Twice A Fortnight. He accepted on the grounds that he might not get an opportunity like that again, whereas medical jobs came up all the time. He also took himself off the official medical register.

'The Goodies’ ran for 12 years over 9 series, the last of which was with LWT. Graeme co-wrote them with Bill and, in the early years, with assistance from Tim. They had three best-selling books associated with the show and they won two Silver Roses of Montreaux. The Goodies also enjoyed musical success; their most famous record was, of course, ‘The Funky Gibbon’ which reached No.4 in the charts.

ISIRTA was put on the back-burner due to various work commitments from 1970 until 1973 where the performers got together for one last series, however Graeme very cleverly devised another radio show for BBC Radio 4, entitled ‘I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue’. It began in 1972 and is still running today, more popular and successful than ever.

Graeme & Tim successfully toured the UK in the brilliant stage show 'The Goodies Still Rule OK' recently and of course they are both still panellists on 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue', which recently completed a UK Tour.