That Reminds Me

RADIO 4 EXTRA, 6.30PM

The late Humphrey Lyttelton, jazz trumpet player, band leader, humorist, raconteur, much missed chairman of Radio 4’s “antidote to panel games” I’m Sorry I Haven’t a

Clue, made this programme of reminiscence in 2000. Embracing his first recorded utterance, funny things his children said to him and he to them, all his stories show how often a sense of humour can be a sense of proportion. Hear his gift for timing, too. Eccentricity runs in his family, “an excess of common sense” he calls it, justifiably, as his stories show.