Many a Slip (radio series)

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Many a Slip

Genre	Panel game
Running time	30 minutes
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
Home station	BBC Light Programme BBC Radio 2 BBC Radio 4
Syndicates	BBC Home Service BBC Radio 4 Extra
Hosted by	Roy Plomley Steve Race at the piano
Starring	Isobel Barnett Richard Murdoch Lance Percival Gillian Reynolds Tim Rice Eleanor Summerfield
Created by	Ian Messiter
Written by	Ian Messiter
Produced by	Charles Maxwell Tony Luke Peter Titheradge Martin Fisher Paul Mayhew-Archer
Recording studio	Paris Theatre, London
Original release	17 March 1964 (1964-03-17)[1] – 4 December 1979 (1979-12-04)[2]
Website	www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09tc7w5

Many a Slip is a British panel game created by Ian Messiter which was broadcast from 1964 to 1979. It was chaired by Roy Plomley, with a musical mistakes round supplied by Steve Race. The title of the show is a reference to the English proverb "There's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip".

The BBC received requests from school teachers and lecturers for transcripts of Ian Messiter's pieces as a fun way of teaching educational subjects to pupils.^{[citation needed]}