I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue - Own-Brand Condoms & Butchers' Ball | BBC Radio 4

Own-brand condoms. A butchers' ball. A hairdressers' film club. An Elizabethan film club. And not a single person in the BBC apparently saw any reason to intervene. This is I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue operating with the particular confidence of a show that has, over five decades, accumulated enough institutional goodwill to title an episode Own-Brand Condoms and have it broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on the third of January 2022 — which is, when you think about it, an extraordinary way to begin a new year. The panel approaches the subject with the same straight-faced, gleefully innocent energy they bring to everything, which somehow makes it simultaneously more and less appropriate than it would be anywhere else. From there, the Butchers' Ball of 2007 arrives with the kind of meaty, purposeful chaos that only a ballroom full of people who work with sharp implements can generate. The Hairdressers Film Club of 1998 brings a different texture entirely — scissors, opinions, and an audience of people professionally trained to keep talking regardless of circumstances. And the Elizabethan Film Club of 1995 closes the circle with the magnificent absurdity of ISIHAC's panel applying their particular brand of modern nonsense to the court of Queen Elizabeth I, who would almost certainly have had them all executed and secretly found it hilarious. Twenty-seven years of getting away with absolutely everything. Long may it continue. Why You'll Love This Compilation ✔ Own-Brand Condoms — a title that tells you everything and nothing simultaneously ✔ The Butchers' Ball delivering sharp, perfectly timed ensemble comedy ✔ Two Film Clubs from different centuries, equally unprepared for the ISIHAC treatment ✔ Nearly three decades of BBC Radio 4's most gloriously unaccountable panel show ✔ Proof that ISIHAC has always, in every era, done exactly what it wanted 💬 Listener Question: Own-Brand Condoms on BBC Radio 4 in January 2022 — inspired scheduling genius or proof that ISIHAC has simply been allowed to do whatever it likes for so long that nobody checks anymore? 👍 Like, comment, and subscribe for more classic BBC Radio comedy and timeless panel show moments. 🔔 Turn on notifications so you never miss a new upload. #ISIHAC #ImSorryIHaventaClue #BBCRadio4 #BritishComedy #PanelShow #OwnBrandCondoms #ButchersBall #HairdressersFilmClub #ElizabethanFilmClub #MorningtonCrescent #RadioComedy #ClassicBBC #BritishHumour #ComedyPanel #GetawayWithEverything