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.
- Series 52, Episode 7 repeated Monday at 2pm on Radio 4 Extra
Parsons: Just a Minute pilot was a disaster
Sir Nicholas Parsons has described the "great essence" of the success of Radio 4's Just A Minute as "having fun".
"I try to orchestrate things so we do have fun. I will throw out lines to people like Paul Merton and he will come out with the most outrageous comments...mostly about my age."
He also explained that the programme was fortunate to have been commissioned, saying "the BBC didn't want it, they weren't going to commission it, but we had a brilliant young producer who put his job on the line".
View this clip on the BBC website
Featuring: Nicholas Parsons & David Tennant.