Just A Minute

Clue Live vol. 2 will be released by BBC Audiobooks on 17^th July 2008. Synopsis from BBC Shop:

A second volume of two specially compiled, extended-length shows from Jon Naismith's production archive, featuring out-takes, ad libs and audience interaction from the Clue team. Taken from the early 1990s, these shows (edition dates t.b.c.) feature the classic Clue line up of Humphrey Lyttelton, Graeme Garden , Barry Cryer, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Jeremy Hardy and the much-missed Willie Rushton. May contain swearing

And there you have it. You could’ve sworn it was an elephant. Which brings me onto another Clue-related item – the Hamish & Dougal book will finally be released on 28^th August 2008. Synopsis from publishers Random House:

Hello there! You’ll have had your tea? Dougal here. Well, here we go, with our wee book. It’s a collection or pot pourri (I’ve no idea what Hamish means by that – it sounds like something to do with the Pope) of our activities or ‘doings’ in the village we call home, because that’s exactly what it is.

Together with our housekeeper, Mrs Naughtie, and of course, the Laird who lives up at the big hoose and shoots grouse and other bottles of whisky, these are the actual scripts of our wee show which we performed on the wireless, when most of you were probably in bed!

Hamish and I have known each other all our lives – well, not yet, obviously! We have a very close relationship and also with each other. Mrs Naughtie been with us since we first met her at the Krankie Arms, where she was working as part-time barmaid and bouncer.

In addition to the scripts you’ll find all kinds of other things tucked away under its kilt. There’s a hectic social life in the village. You’ll visit the 'bide a wee' café, proud possessor of three Michelin tyres. You’ll have a conducted tour of the big hoose by Big Tam, our local guide (not during opening hours). You’ll marvel at the site of the Battle of Auchtermuchty, now allotments. You’ll peek into the Laird’s social diary in ‘oot and aboot’ (40p at the post office). And a great deal more.

Well, I hope this wee note will make you hurry to the till and spend the terrible amount of money these wee books cost these days. But then again this particular wee book is Scotland ’s answer to Richard and Judy! Hurrah!

Away now…

Although Humph and Clue may be gone, we can still have these mementoes to take home in a little doggy bag J

I just bought the first Clue Live CD set with Jeremy Hardy’s first recording (Harrogate, November 1995), and one of Willie Rushton’s last (Liverpool, October 1996)… and I’ve got The New Uxbridge English Dictionary, which contains a lot of the New Definitions from the round of the same name, so I end this message with a little taster from the book (available for £7.99 from all good bookshops):

Hamas – what Geordies use to bang nails in

Endorse – loser in the Grand National

AWOL – dyslexic owl

Sanctity – multiple-breasted Frenchwoman

Arsenic – to steal buttocks

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