Graeme Garden

Shows

The Adventure Game (contestant)

Beat the Kids

Beat the Nation

If I Ruled the World... (team captain)

I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (devisor and panellist)

Star Turn

Tell Me More

Tell the Truth

The Unbelievable Truth (co-devisor)

Biography

Graeme Garden, who trained as a doctor but never practised, has worked with Orson Welles and John Cleese.

In TV he is better known as 33.333% of 70s comedy sketch act The Goodies (with Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor), and as the longest-serving member and inventor of BBC Radio 4's quiz I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. This talent for improvisation was well used in the politically satirical panel game If I Ruled the World... In addition, he co-presented a popular 1980's health-related programme, "Body Matters", which presumably utilised his medical knowledge, to some extent at least.

Trivia

His son, John, sometimes plays at concerts for Scissor Sisters.

Garden appeared as a pompous university lecturer in a one-off BBC drama, "The Student Prince", which also starred Robson Green, Rupert Penry-Jones, Richard Briers and Stephen Moore.

He and the other two Goodies, along with Jill Shilling, provided the voices and narration for the BBC's 80's cartoon series 'Bananaman'.