Just a Minute". Radio Times. Vol.186, no.2414 (London & South Easted.). BBC Publications. 12 February 1970. p.27 . Retrieved 30 January 2020. A panel game controlled (!) this week by Clement Freud. Episode 441". Just a Minute. Series 27. Episode 8. 19 February 1994. BBC Radio 4. Transcript from just-a-minute.info. Nicholas Parsons: 'Eddie you've challenged yourself!', Eddie Izzard: 'Yes I felt I was hesitating so I get one mark!' Nicholas Parsons: 'Well, well, well, well, well, well played Eddie! I mean you definitely were hesitating' In 1999, the BBC televised the show, with 20 episodes recorded during a single week in Birmingham. Nicholas Parsons was again the chairman. There were no regular panellists but those appearing were Pam Ayres, Clare Balding, Isla Blair, Jo Brand, Gyles Brandreth, Ken Bruce, Michael Cashman, Barry Cryer, Stephen Frost, Liza Goddard, Tony Hawks, Peter Jones, Maria McErlane, Richard Morton, Tom O'Connor, Su Pollard, Steve Punt, Wendy Richard, John Sergeant, Brian Sewell, Linda Smith, Richard Vranch and Gary Wilmot. The series was produced by Helena Taylor.

Jeffries, Stuart (16 February 2016). "Paul Merton on Just a Minute: 'Our worst contestant? Esther Rantzen' ". The Guardian. London. eISSN 1756-3224 . Retrieved 15 February 2020. The host gives one of four contestants a topic to talk about for 60 seconds and they have to do so without hesitation, repetition or deviation. A panellist scores one point for making a correct challenge against whoever is speaking, or the speaker gets a point if the challenge is deemed incorrect. If a witty interjection amuses the audience, but is not a correct challenge, at the chairperson's discretion the challenger can nevertheless be awarded an extra point (the "bonus point" rule). A player who makes a correct challenge takes over the subject for the remainder of the minute, or until he or she is successfully challenged. At the discretion of the chairperson also, a challenged player can be given a "benefit of the doubt" and keeps the subject if what he or she was saying appears to remain within the rules, even if verging on their very limits. The person speaking when the whistle blows after 60 seconds scores a point. An extra point is awarded if a panellist speaks for the entire minute without being challenged. This section needs expansionwith: information about the effect different producers have had on the show and vice versa. You can help by adding to it. ( January 2020) Just a Minute". Radio Times. Vol.181, no.2345 (London & South Easted.). BBC Publications. 17 October 1968. p.23 . Retrieved 30 January 2020. A panel game controlled this week by Kenneth Williams.On rare occasions, panellists will challenge themselves, usually by mistake or for laughs. [19] If successful, last-second challenges can be especially rewarding, as they allow one to speak for a short time but earn two points—one for the challenge and one for being the last speaker. Join national treasure and Just a Minute regular Gyles Brandreth on a hilariously addictive romp through British history. This isn’t just another history book – there’s a catch! From Stonehenge and Boudicca to Megxit and Brexit, each topic is written in 60-second installments, without hesitation, repetition, or deviation. BBC radio host Nicholas Parsons dies". BBC News. BBC. 28 January 2020 . Retrieved 30 January 2020. Broadcaster Nicholas Parsons has died at the age of 96 after a short illness, his agent has confirmed. For the show's 25th anniversary in 1992, a two-hour compilation album entitled Just A Minute: Silver Minutes was released on long-play vinyl and cassette. The following year, an eponymous album Just A Minute was released containing three then-recent episodes from 1991 and 1993. A further cassette with four recent episodes entitled Just A Minute 2 followed in 1996. Just A Minute 3 in 1999 saw the start of regular annual releases featuring 4 of the best episodes from the previous year. After Just A Minute 8 in 2004, the following year's release was titled Just A Minute: The Best Of 2005 and an end-of-year collection has been released every year since with Just A Minute: The Best Of 2017 due for release on 2 November. Deviation" originally meant deviating from the given subject, but gradually evolved to also include "deviating from the English language as we know it", "deviation from grammar as we understand it", deviating from the truth, and deviating from logic. Nevertheless, leaps into the surreal are usually allowed.

Celebrating key moments in British history from people to places, including kings and queens, heroes and villains, triumphs and disasters, Gyles Brandreth's A History of Britain in Just a Minute is written without hesitation, repetition or deviation. A former Oxford Scholar, President of the Oxford Union and MP for the City of Chester, Gyles Brandreth’s career has ranged from being a Whip and Lord Commissioner of the Treasury in John Major’s government to starring in his own award-winning musical revue in London’s West End. A prolific broadcaster (in programmes ranging from Just a Minute to Have I Got News for You), an acclaimed interviewer (principally for the Sunday Telegraph), a novelist, children’s author and biographer, his best-selling diary, Breaking the Code, was described as ‘By far the best political diary of recent years, far more perceptive and revealing than Alan Clark’s’ ( The Times) and ‘Searingly honest, wildly indiscreet, and incredibly funny’ ( Daily Mail). He is the author of two acclaimed royal biographies: Philip Elizabeth: Portrait of a Marriage and Charles Camilla: Portrait of a Love Affair. In 2007/2008, John Murray in the UK and Simon & Schuster in the US began publishing The Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries, his series of Victorian murder mysteries featuring Oscar Wilde as the detective. In 2017, a box set entitled Just A Minute: Golden Collection was released to celebrate the show's 50th anniversary. Controversially, [ citation needed] more than half the selected episodes featured Freud despite the revelations about him in the previous year. Repeats were then broadcast until Parsons' death on 28 January 2020, at the age of 96, and for a couple of weeks thereafter as a homage. [16]

In February 2012, two episodes of the show were recorded at the Comedy Store, in Mumbai in India, the first time the show has recorded outside Britain. The programme played for many years on the BBC World Service and is said to have a large following in India. [45] TV versions [ edit ] In 2004, the BBC began a separate annual series of double CD releases collecting older episodes covering the shows first 30 years entitled Just A Classic Minute: Volume 1. Each episode had a newly-recorded introduction by Parsons (for later volumes, Parsons and Merton in discussion). The first four volumes were also released in a box set entitled Just A Classic Minute: 40th Anniversary Collection in 2007. The series finished in 2010 with the release of Just A Classic Minute: Volume 7. Just a Minute". Radio Times. Vol.177, no.2301 (London & South Easted.). BBC Publications. 14 December 1967. p.65 . Retrieved 30 January 2020. Pre-recorded at The Piccadilly, 201 Piccadilly, London W1. The RRP is the suggested or Recommended Retail Price of a product, set by the publisher or manufacturer.

Just a Minute!". Radio Times. Vol.272, no.3549 (Londoned.). BBC Magazines. 2 January 1992. p.87 . Retrieved 30 January 2020. Special edition from Highgate marking the first programme in the 25th seriesParsons, Nicholas (2014). Welcome to Just a Minute!: A Celebration of Britain's Best-Loved Radio Comedy. Edinburgh: Canongate Books. ISBN 978-1-78211-247-1 . Retrieved 29 January 2020– via Google Books. Join national treasure and Just a Minute regular Gyles Brandreth on a hilariously addictive romp through British history. This isn't just another history book - there's a catch! From Stonehenge and Boudicca to Megxit and Brexit, each topic is written in 60-second installments, without hesitation, repetition, or deviation. You've never heard the history of Britain told quite like this. You'll enjoy every uproarious minute of it. Read more Details He is married to writer and publisher Michèle Brown, with whom he co-curated the exhibition of twentieth century children’s authors at the National Portrait Gallery and founded the award-winning Teddy Bear Museum now based at the Polka Theatre in Wimbledon. He is a trustee of the British Forces Foundation, and a former chairman and now vice-president of the National Playing Fields Association. Winners". Sony Radio Academy. Archived from the original on 5 December 2004 . Retrieved 14 October 2010.

Just a Minute". Radio Times. Vol.181, no.2344 (London & South Easted.). BBC Publications. 10 October 1968. p.23 . Retrieved 30 January 2020. A panel game controlled (!) this week by Geraldine Jones. Sue Perkins announced as new host of Just a Minute". BBC News. 20 July 2021 . Retrieved 20 July 2021.For the first 30 years, most shows were recorded in the Paris Theatre in central London. In 1992, a new producer, Sarah Smith, took the show outside central London and recorded some shows in nearby Highgate. [41] A year later, the show left London for the first time; the first such shows broadcast were recorded in Bury St Edmunds [42] and Llandudno. [43] The show started going to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1993 and has been there every year since. [44] In recent years most shows, though not all, have been recorded at the BBC Radio Theatre in Broadcasting House in central London.