I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue's Humphrey Lyttelton In Conversation: Play As I Please

By: BBC, June Knox-Mawer

Narrated by: Humphrey Lyttelton, June Knox-Mawer

Humph – bandleader, cartoonist, writer, chairman of BBC Radio 4’s I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue, president of the Society for Italic Handwriting and doyen of jazz trumpeters. In conversation with June Knox-Mawer, Humphrey Lyttelton reflects on his extraordinary life; from schooldays at Eton and playing out ‘Roll Out the Barrel’ outside Buckingham Palace on VE Day, to the formation of his band in 1948 and his emergence as ‘the godfather of British jazz’. In his incredibly varied career he was a cartoonist for the Daily Mail, a journalist for Punch and even formed his own record company. In this recording he shares his joy of music with his beloved humour. It’s a wry, witty and wonderful story told in his characteristically urbane style and peppered with some of his own great jazz favourites.©2009 BBC Audiobooks Ltd; (P)2009 BBC Audiobooks Ltd

Great background

A wonderful background piece on the incomparable Humph.You may only know him from I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, but his jazz history is important to the history of Jazz in England.