Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Just a Minute" in English language version.
Roy Plomley introduces the new radio game. Devised and produced by Ian C. Messiter.
A panel game controlled (!) this week by Clement Freud.
A panel game controlled (!) this week by Clement Freud.
A panel game controlled (!) this week by Geraldine Jones.
A panel game controlled (!) by Andrei [sic] Melly.
A panel game controlled this week by Kenneth Williams.
A panel game controlled (!) this week by Kenneth Williams.
Pre-recorded at The Piccadilly, 201 Piccadilly, London W1.
Nicholas Parsons and panellists Clement Freud, Sheila Hancock, Paul Merton and Graham Norton return to the show's first venue, the Playhouse Theatre, London, to celebrate 35 years of hesitation, repetition and deviation.
Special edition from Highgate marking the first programme in the 25th series
Broadcaster Nicholas Parsons has died at the age of 96 after a short illness, his agent has confirmed.
Gyles Brandreth temporarily takes over from Nicholas Parsons as the chairman of the iconic panel game.
Presenter: Gyles Brandreth
For much of the past 45 years, Just a Minute was broadcast on the BBC World Service; with the show becoming something of a hit, particularly in India.
The UK's main prizes for the airwaves, the Sony Radio Academy Awards, have been handed out in London. Comedy award: Just A Minute
Gazing out the window at Sherborne school during a class, Messiter was brought back to reality by a bellow from his master, Percival Parry Jones. "Messiter! Repeat what I have been saying for the last minute, without hesitation or repetition," said the fearsome teacher. [...] Away from Britain he refined the format of his quiz idea - adding a rule against deviating from a given subject to those of his old teacher's.
A ten-part series will be broadcast in BBC Two's daytime schedule, presented by long-serving host Nicholas Parsons and featuring semi-regular panellist Paul Merton.
This is a musical variation on another Radio 4 comedy panel game, Just a Minute. In this game the panellists have to sing a song (such as One Man Went to Mow) without hesitation, repetition, deviation, or repetition.
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!
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'
This particular edition of Just A Minute comes from the beautiful and ancient Theatre Royal in the delightful and old city of Bury St Edmonds.
This particular recording of Just A Minute is coming from the beautiful seaside town of North Wales, Llandudno.
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.
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.
But what is the secret of its success? "I think it's because the format is insanely basic," says radio comedy writer David Quantick. "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."
Messiter left the BBC in 1952 to join a commercial station in Johannesburg, and it was there that Just a Minute was broadcast for the first time. When he returned to Britain two years later, the BBC did not want to buy the format or broadcast the show, so Messiter sold it to the Dumont television station in the US. It was the first British game show seen in America, was nationally networked and attracted many US celebrities.
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.
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.
But what is the secret of its success? "I think it's because the format is insanely basic," says radio comedy writer David Quantick. "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."
Messiter left the BBC in 1952 to join a commercial station in Johannesburg, and it was there that Just a Minute was broadcast for the first time. When he returned to Britain two years later, the BBC did not want to buy the format or broadcast the show, so Messiter sold it to the Dumont television station in the US. It was the first British game show seen in America, was nationally networked and attracted many US celebrities.
