Graeme Garden

Shows

Beat the Kids

Beat the Nation

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

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

The Motion Show

A Rhyme in Time (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, "Bodymatters", which gave him a chance to use his medical knowledge for once.

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'.

Became an OBE in the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours, alongside frequent collaborator Tim Brooke-Taylor and fellow Star Turn host Bernard Cribbins.