I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail.

- Humphrey Lyttelton

An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons.

- Humphrey Lyttelton

Well, I had started a program which is even longer running than this one in 1967 which was a jazz program called The Best of Jazz and that still goes…

- Humphrey Lyttelton

I did the pilot, and when they came through and said they were going to put it on the air, I had already some dates in the book with my band and so o…

- Humphrey Lyttelton

I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it …

- Humphrey Lyttelton

Now it's time to play a brand new game called Name That Barcode. Here's the first one: "Thick black, thin white, thick black, thick white, thick blac…

- Humphrey Lyttelton

For me, it's a bigger challenge, it's much harder to do and much more rewarding to do well, then just to think up stuff of your own, hit or miss, bec…

- Humphrey Lyttelton

Coincidence is a wonderful thing.

- Humphrey Lyttelton

The history of popular music is littered with great partnerships. Rodgers had his Hammerstein, Lennon had his McCartney, and Lloyd Webber had... his …

- Humphrey Lyttelton