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STEPHEN Fry, Jack Dee and Rob Brydon are to take over Humphrey Lyttleton's role for the return of the BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.
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The new series will be aired in June, a year after Lyttelton's death.
Regular panellists Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden said it would be impossible to recruit a single host to replace him. Instead, the new quartet will share presenting duties over the series.
Listen to Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden discussing the show's future with Yorkshire Post Digital Editor David Behrens at the Ilkley Literature Festival
Comedian Brydon said he was "hugely proud" to be asked to present.
Lyttelton, famed for his innuendo, died in April, aged 86. He was chairman of the series since its 1972 inception.
He died following complications from surgery to repair an aortic aneurysm.
Just before the operation, the BBC had announced it was cancelling recording of the latest series of the show.
Brydon, who like all the new presenters has appeared as a guest panellist on the show, said it was "not really a question of filling Humph's shoes because that couldn't be done - he was a complete one-off".
"I'm a real latecomer to it, I only came to it about three years ago but I'm so proud to be a small part of it and this is really just about continuing that lovely atmosphere.
"People don't do it for the money, they do it for the enjoyment of it and it's a unique radio show and one that I think we're all hugely proud of."
He added: "It's a unique atmosphere on that show of such warmth that I've never really found on any other show and I think it's important for people to realise that it's a group of friends playing games together."
Leeds-born Barry Cryer, who has also appeared on the show since the beginning, said Lyttelton's were "big shoes to fill".
"It was a strange sort of watershed when dear Humph went, there was a relatively small movement that you must never do this show again," he said.
"And then a torrent of e-mails and stuff came in saying you must go on, you must go on.
"It's no disrespect to Humph at all.
"It's just people want the show to carry on and we'll be pleased to do it, even without the great man."
Radio 4 controller Mark Damazer said the new presenters were "men of huge talent and I am confident that the show will work".
Veteran trumpeter Lyttelton retired from hosting Radio 2's The Best of Jazz programme a month before his death after more than 40 years presenting the show.
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