Just a Minute
Just a Minute is a BBC Radio 4 radio comedy and television panel game chaired by Nicholas Parsons. Its first transmission on Radio 4 was on 22 December 1967, three months after the station's launch. The Radio 4 programme won a Gold Sony Radio Academy Award in 2003. The object of the game is for panellists to talk for sixty seconds on a given subject, "without repetition, hesitation or deviation". The comedy comes from attempts to keep within these rules and the banter among the participants. In 2011 comedy writer David Quantick ascribed Just a Minute's success to its "insanely basic" format, stating, "It's so blank that it can be filled by people as diverse as Paul Merton and Graham Norton, who don't have to adapt their style of humour to the show at all."
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Celebrating 45 years of this classic radio comedy panel game, host Nicolas Parsons is joined by guests each week. The players try to speak for one minute on a subject while avoiding hesitation, repetition and deviation.
- Ep 1
1.Graham Norton, Sue Perkins and Phill Jupitus
26-03-201230 min - Ep 2
2.Julian Clary, Stephen Fry and Russell Tovey
27-03-201230 min - Ep 3
3.Sue Perkins, Marcus Brigstocke and Ruth Jones
28-03-201230 min - Ep 4
4.Liza Tarbuck, Gyles Brandreth and Miles Jupp
29-03-201230 min - Ep 5
5.Josie Lawrence, John Sergeant and Jason Manford
30-03-201230 min - Ep 6
6.Graham Norton, Sue Perkins and Tony Hawks
02-04-201230 min - Ep 7
7.Shappi Khorsandi, Hugh Bonneville and Jason Manford
03-04-201230 min - Ep 8
8.Sue Perkins, Marcus Brigstocke and Stephen Mangan
04-04-201230 min - Ep 9
9.Liza Tarbuck, Gyles Brandreth and Tony Hawks
05-04-201230 min - Ep 10
10.Julian Clary, Stephen Fry and Shappi Khorsandi
06-04-201230 min
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