A History of Britain in Just a Minute

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Just A Minute presenter Nicholas Parsons misses first show in 50 years". BBC News. BBC. 4 June 2018 . Retrieved 14 June 2018.

Parsons, 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. Gyles Brandreth presents “A History of Britain in Just A Minute”, 30th September – 12th October 2022 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. You've never heard the history of Britain told quite like this. You'll enjoy every uproarious minute of it. Read more Look Inside Details As a performer, Gyles Brandreth has been seen most recently in ZIPP! ONE HUNDRED MUSICALS FOR LESS THAN THE PRICE OF ONE at the Duchess Theatre and on tour throughout the UK, and as Malvolio and the Sea Captain in TWELFTH NIGHT THE MUSICAL at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.Several television versions have been attempted. Two pilot episodes were recorded for television in 1969 and 1981 but never broadcast, except in documentaries about Kenneth Williams. Sue Perkins announced as new host of Just a Minute". BBC News. 20 July 2021 . Retrieved 20 July 2021. The RRP is the suggested or Recommended Retail Price of a product, set by the publisher or manufacturer. 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.

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 ] Episode 426". Just a Minute. Series 26. Episode 3. 16 January 1993. BBC Radio 4. Transcript from just-a-minute.info. This particular recording of Just A Minute is coming from the beautiful seaside town of North Wales, Llandudno. The pilot for Just a Minute was recorded in 1967, featuring Clement Freud, Derek Nimmo, Beryl Reid and Willma Ewert as panellists. The chairman was originally intended to be Jimmy Edwards but he was unavailable on Sundays, the proposed recording dates, and was replaced by Nicholas Parsons, who was originally supposed to be a panel member. Parsons did not want the job and only reluctantly took it, just for the pilot episode. After the show settled in, again he found himself in the role of a straight man for the panellists. Although executives at the BBC disliked the pilot, its producer, David Hatch, insisted on having Parsons as the chairman. [11] The first series was not very successful, but Hatch threatened to resign if the programme was not given another chance. [11] Not wishing to lose Hatch, the BBC acquiesced. Just a Minute is a BBC Radio 4 radio comedy panel game, hosted by Sue Perkins since 2021. For more than 50 years, with a few exceptions, it was hosted by Nicholas Parsons. Following Parsons' death in 2020, Perkins assumed the host's chair permanently, starting with the 87th series. Just a Minute was first transmitted on Radio 4 on 22 December 1967, three months after the station's launch. [2] The programme won a Gold Sony Radio Academy Award in 2003. [3] [4] Just a Minute". Radio Times. Vol.181, no.2343 (London & South Easted.). BBC Publications. 3 October 1968. p.21 . Retrieved 30 January 2020. A panel game controlled (!) this week by Clement Freud.

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Episode 455". Just a Minute. Series 29. Episode 1. 6 January 1996. BBC Radio 4. Transcript from just-a-minute.info. So Paul Merton started with the subject and he kept going with a little connivance from the chairman who actually blew the whistle on that occasion after one minute, 30 seconds! a b "Just a Minute". UKGameshows.com. Labyrinth Games . Retrieved 10 September 2007. However, BBC producer David Hatch was insistent that Parsons should have the job. The first series [ when?] was not much of a success, and Hatch had to make a stand and threatened to resign unless it got another go. Episode 633". Just a Minute. Series 47. Episode 3. 25 July 2005. BBC Radio 4. Transcript from just-a-minute.info. Episode 445". Just a Minute. Series 28. Episode 2. 31 December 1994. BBC Radio 4. Transcript from just-a-minute.info. This particular edition of Just A Minute is coming from the International Edinburgh Festival and we're playing here in the Pleasance Theatre before a very animated and excited fringe Edinburgh audience. BBC Radio 4 was launched on 30 September 1967, around three months before Just a Minute was created.