Just A Minute. Sue Perkins. Copyright: BBC
Just A Minute

Just A Minute

  • Radio panel show
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 1967 - 2024
  • 1000 episodes (92 series)

Long running radio panel game in which contestants to talk for one minute without repetition, hesitation or deviation. Stars Nicholas Parsons, Sue Perkins, Paul Merton, Clement Freud, Kenneth Williams and more.

Press clippings

Comedy.co.uk Awards 2023 shortlist

The 60 TV and radio programmes shortlisted across the 10 categories in the Comedy.co.uk Awards 2023 have been revealed. Voting is now open to determine the winners.

British Comedy Guide, 8th January 2024

Comedy.co.uk Awards 2022 shortlist

The 60 TV and radio programmes shortlisted across the 10 categories in the Comedy.co.uk Awards 2022 have been revealed. Voting is now open to determine the winners.

British Comedy Guide, 9th January 2023

Book extract: A History Of Britain In Just A Minute by Gyles Brandreth

Extracts covering Doctor Who, Coronation Street and Blue Peter.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 21st September 2022

Brandreth to publish Just A Minute history book

Gyles Brandreth has written a Just A Minute book on British history.

British Comedy Guide, 2nd September 2022

BBC Books picks up Brandreth's History Of Britain In Just A Minute

Ebury imprint BBC Books has signed Gyles Brandreth's A History Of Britain In Just A Minute, a "celebration of key moments, people and places from our past" that accompanies the long-running Radio 4 comedy series Just A Minute.

Lauren Brown, The Bookseller, 27th May 2022

Comedy.co.uk Awards 2021 shortlist

The 60 TV and radio programmes shortlisted across the 10 categories in the Comedy.co.uk Awards 2021 have been revealed. Voting is now open to determine the winners.

British Comedy Guide, 17th January 2022

Just a Minute, review

Radio 4's much-loved show will be just fine with new host Sue Perkins.

Charlotte Runcie, The Telegraph, 6th September 2021

Can Sue Perkins fill Nicholas Parsons's shoes on JAM?

In her first episode as chair, she proves herself a deeply reassuring choice.

Anna Leszkiewicz, The New Statesman, 1st September 2021

Sue Perkins to host Just A Minute

Sue Perkins is to be the new host of Radio 4's much-loved panel show format Just A Minute.

British Comedy Guide, 20th July 2021

Just A Minute is at a loss without Nicholas Parsons

As the first season without Parsons draws to a close, have any of the stand-ins made a strong case for permanency?

Charlotte Runcie, The Telegraph, 28th April 2021

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