Sound Charades

Sound Charades is a variant of charades played on BBC Radio 4's "antidote to panel games" I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. As with some other ISIHAC games, such as as Celebrity What's My Line?, the game has been created by taking an existing game and removing the central concept. As Humphrey Lyttelton puts it: "In the original the players were not allowed to speak, resulting in much hilarity. Our version differs in one respect. And in the other.".

The format of the game is largely similar to the original. One team is given the name of a book, film, television or radio series. They announce the number of words and the format, and act out a short improvised play, conveying the title, usually by means of a rather forced pun.

For instance, the clue for the BBC 2 science documentary series Q.E.D. was:

"I want some Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer invented the characters of Hamish and Dougal, two rural Scotsmen who featured regularly in the sketches, and later were given their own series Hamish and Dougal: You'll Have Had Your Tea

Another tradition in the later years was that Humph's initial explanation of the game to mention the television version of charades, Give Us A Clue. This would inevitably involve a double entendre about either Lionel Blair or Una Stubbs.