Hamish and Dougal

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Hamish and Dougal are two characters from the long-running BBC Radio 4 "antidote to panel games", I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. One of the rounds in this show is Sound Charades, where a title of a book or film has to be conveyed from one team to the other by means of a story. The result of the story is usually a pun on the title in question. Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden usually tell their story as two elderly Scottish gentlemen, Hamish and Dougal. It is in essence a minute-long improvised sketch where each performer knows the other well enough to be able to set up joint jokes seamlessly. The characters first appeared introduced in an episode recorded on 21 October 1996, under the names Alec and Denzil. Each sketch is started with the line "You'll have had your tea", with which (un)welcome visitors who have a habit of dropping in at dinnertime are reputed to be greeted in Edinburgh, Scotland. (In the north of the United Kingdom, the evening meal, typically called dinner in the south, is usually called tea; this can sometimes lead to confusion.) This is done either to deter scroungers or because the person in question is quite tight-fisted himself. In 2002, between the 24 December and 27 December, daily episodes of a sitcom You'll Have Had Your Tea were broadcast on BBC Radio 4. These were 15 minutes long and were extensions of the one minute sketches. The main differences were the presence of a script, written by Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden, and of two other actors, Aliso

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