Just A Minute
- Radio panel show
- BBC Radio 4
- 1967 - 2024
- 1006 episodes (93 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.
- Due to return for Series 94
- Series 56, Episode 2 repeated tomorrow at 2pm on Radio 4 Extra
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Just A Minute the Swedish way - but still no deviation
Just A Minute is one of the jewels in the BBC crown - and it's been entertaining audiences on radio since 1967. But few people in the UK know its close Scandinavian cousin Pa Minuten. The show, recorded in Stockholm, started just two years after the original and sticks to the same rules - more or less.
Vincent Dowd, BBC, 17th September 2018Nicholas Parsons reveals the real reason he was absent
"I had flu," the 94-year-old broadcaster told the Today programme. "They wanted to say for some reason - the BBC gave out - that I had taken a couple of days off, which is ridiculous. In our profession you don't take days off. You are terrified someone is going to take the job from you."
Paul Jones, Radio Times, 30th June 2018Nicholas Parsons misses first Just A Minute in 50 years
Radio 4 has broadcast an episode of Just A Minute without Nicholas Parsons, the first time it has done so in the show's 50 year history. Gyles Brandreth acted as guest host.
British Comedy Guide, 4th June 2018Comedy.co.uk Awards 2017 shortlist
The shortlisted TV and radio shows for the Comedy.co.uk Awards 2017 have been announced. 60 programmes are in the running for the Comedy Of The Year title.
British Comedy Guide, 15th January 2018Nicholas Parsons on half a century of Just a Minute
Nicholas Parsons has left his walking stick at the dry cleaner's: a rare senior moment from someone who is a one-man campaign against ageism.
Ben Lawrence, The Telegraph, 5th December 2017Nicholas Parsons interview
After 50 years on Radio 4's Just a Minute, the 94-year-old says he is the oldest person in show business still regularly performing. Now about that knighthood (and his rightful place in Guinness World Records) ...
Simon Hattenstone, The Guardian, 3rd December 2017Why Just a Minute hides a far more ruthless reality
Just A Minute has become one of the nation's most beloved radio shows -- but it began as a classroom humiliation, inflicted on daydreamers by a history teacher at Sherborne School in the Thirties.
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 1st December 2017Paul Merton to interview Nicholas Parsons for Just A Minute special
Just A Minute host Nicholas Parsons is to be interviewed by Paul Merton for a special Radio 4 show linked to 50 years of the panel show.
British Comedy Guide, 1st November 2017Comedy.co.uk Awards 2016 shortlists announced
The shortlists for the Comedy.co.uk Awards 2016 have been revealed. 60 shows are in the running for the Comedy Of The Year title. Voting is now open.
British Comedy Guide, 16th January 2017The Prince of Wales marks 50 years of Just A Minute
HRH The Prince of Wales has recorded a special message to mark iconic Radio 4 comedy panel show Just A Minute entering its 50th anniversary year.
British Comedy Guide, 16th December 2016