ISIRTA episodes and songs

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

Script Writers

Song Titles

Singers

Songwriters

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

Graeme Garden
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

Graeme Garden
and Bill Oddie

"My Mom Has Lost My Dad"

Bill Oddie

Bill Oddie

The Curse of the Flying Wombat - Part 3

Graeme Garden
and Bill Oddie

"Where Is My Smile"

Bill Oddie

Bill Oddie

The Curse of the Flying Wombat - Part 4

Graeme Garden
and Bill Oddie

"Favourite Melody" (Beethoven's Fifth)

Bill Oddie

Bill Oddie

The Curse of the Flying Wombat - Part 5

Graeme Garden
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

Graeme Garden
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

Graeme Garden
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

Graeme Garden
and Bill Oddie

"Man's Best Friend - a Duck"

Bill Oddie

Bill Oddie

The Curse of the Flying Wombat - Part 12

Graeme Garden
and Bill Oddie

"Yodelling Goatherd"

Bill Oddie

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

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

[...] 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

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 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

Graeme Garden
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

Graeme Garden
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

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)

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

Graeme Garden
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

Graeme Garden
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