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British radio program

Just a Infinitesimal

Nicholas Parsons hosted the evidence for almost 52 years
Genre	Panel game
Running fourth dimension	30 minutes (6:30 pm – 7:00 pm)
Country of origin	Great britain
Language(s)	English language
Dwelling station	BBC Radio 4
Syndicates	BBC World Service BBC Radio iv Extra
Hosted past	Nicholas Parsons (1967–2019) See list of guest presenters Sue Perkins (2021–nowadays)[ane]
Starring	Clement Freud Peter Jones Derek Nimmo Kenneth Williams Paul Merton See list of guest panellists
Created past	Ian Messiter
Produced by	Encounter list of producers
Recording studio	BBC Radio Theatre
Remote studios	Diverse, including the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Original release	22 December 1967 (1967-12-22) – present
No. of serial	87 (as of October 2021)
No. of episodes	963
Opening theme	The Minute Flit past Frédéric Chopin
Website	www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006s5dp

Just a Infinitesimal is a BBC Radio iv radio comedy panel game, hosted past Sue Perkins since 2021. For more than l years, with a few exceptions, the programme was hosted by Nicholas Parsons. Throughout that time, Parsons appeared on every show, though occasionally every bit a panellist rather than as chairman. Post-obit Parsons' death, Perkins causeless 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'due south launch.^[2] The programme won a Gold Sony Radio University Award in 2003.^{[3] [4]}

The object of the game is for panellists to talk for sixty seconds on a given subject field, "without hesitation, repetition or difference".^[5] The comedy comes from attempts to go on within these rules and the banter amid the participants. In 2011 comedy author David Quantick ascribed Just a Minute's success to its "insanely basic" format, stating, "It'due south so blank that it tin can exist filled by people as various as Paul Merton and Graham Norton, who don't have to suit their style of humour to the prove at all."^{[half dozen]}

Throughout its half-century history, the testify has, in add-on to its popularity in the UK, developed an international following through its circulate on the BBC World Service and, more recently, on the internet. The format has as well occasionally been adapted for tv set.

History [edit]

The idea for the game came to Ian Messiter as he rode on the top of a number 13 bus. He recalled Percival Parry Jones, a history chief from his days at Sherborne School who, upon seeing the immature Messiter daydreaming in a class, instructed him to echo everything he had said in the previous minute without hesitation or repetition.^[vii] To this, Messiter added a dominion disallowing players from diffusive from the subject, as well as a scoring system based on panellists' challenges.^[7]

The format was outset used in 1 Minute, Please, chaired past Roy Plomley, ii series of which were circulate on the BBC Lite Programme between 1951^[8] and 1957.^[9] Whilst the fundamental rules were the same, the game was played in two teams of iii rather than with four individual contestants. Other early incarnations of the show, all created by Messiter, include a 1952 version on South African radio, and a television version on the DuMont network in the United states: 1 Minute Please.^[ten]

The pilot for But a Minute was recorded in 1967, featuring Clement Freud, Derek Nimmo, Beryl Reid and Wilma Ewart as panellists. The chairman was originally intended to be Jimmy Edwards simply he was unavailable on Sundays, the proposed recording dates, and was replaced past Nicholas Parsons, who was originally supposed to be a panel fellow member. Parsons did non want the task and only reluctantly took it, just for the pilot episode. After the show settled in, again he found himself in the part of a directly man for the panellists. Although executives at the BBC disliked the airplane pilot, its producer, David Hatch, insisted on having Parsons as the chairman.^[eleven] The start 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.

The show's theme music is Frédéric Chopin's pianoforte Waltz in D flat major, Op. 64, No. ane, nicknamed the "Minute Waltz" (which, despite its proper noun, lasts longer than 60 seconds; the nickname actually refers to "minute" as in "small" rather than the unit of fourth dimension). The recording used for the theme is by David Haines.^[12]

In 2018, Nicholas Parsons was unable to nourish the recording of two editions of the programme every bit he had the flu. This broke his uninterrupted run of l years as a performer on the programme. The episodes were recorded on 1 Apr 2018 with Gyles Brandreth standing in for Parsons and were circulate on 4 and 11 June 2018.^[thirteen] He was also not present for a recording session for two episodes in series 85; episodes 942 and 943 were broadcast on nine and 26 August 2019. Brandreth again covered for Parsons. Just a Minute connected to be transmitted with Parsons as host until his concluding show on 23 September 2019.^[14]

Repeats were then broadcast until Parsons' death on 28 January 2020, at the age of 96, and for a couple of weeks thereafter equally a homage.^[fifteen]

Serial 86 began transmission in February 2021, with a number of invitee panellists from the show'southward history being asked back to host an episode each.

Rules [edit]

The panellists are invited, in rotation, to speak for one minute on a given bailiwick (which they are unremarkably not informed of in advance), without "hesitation, repetition or deviation". Over the years, the application of these rules has been inconsistent, and their estimation is the focus of much of the comic coaction between those appearing, who often challenge the chairman's rulings.

In the early years the rules were more complicated, as special rules were sometimes tried out in add-on, on a one-off basis: a ban on the word "is" might apply in a round, for instance. But the iii bones rules have e'er applied.

• "Hesitation" is watched very strictly: a momentary pause in speaking can requite rising to a successful challenge, as tin can tripping over i'due south words. Even pausing during audience laughter or applause (known as "riding a express mirth") tin can be challenged.
• "Repetition" means the repetition of any word or phrase once again and once more, although challenges based upon very common words such as "and" are more often than not rejected except in farthermost cases. Words contained in the given subject are now exempt unless repeated many times in quick succession, although this was a later improver to the rules. Good players use synonyms to avoid repeating themselves. Even letters may non be repeated; for example, the term "BBC" must be avoided, as it can exist successfully challenged for repetition of "B".
• "Departure" originally meant deviating from the given subject, but gradually evolved to likewise include "deviating from the English language as we know it", "difference from grammer as we empathise it", deviating from the truth, and deviating from logic. All the same, leaps into the surreal are usually immune.

A panellist scores one indicate for making a correct challenge against whoever is speaking, or the speaker gets a point if the challenge is deemed incorrect. If a witty interjection amuses the audience, but is non a correct challenge, at the chairman'due south discretion the challenger tin can nevertheless be awarded an extra betoken (the "bonus point" rule). A player who makes a right challenge takes over the subject for the remainder of the infinitesimal, or until he or she is successfully challenged. The person speaking when the whistle blows subsequently 60 seconds also scores a point. An extra point is awarded if a panellist speaks for the entire minute without being challenged.

It is rare for a panellist to speak within the 3 cardinal rules for any substantial length of time, whilst both remaining coherent and being amusing. Therefore, to speak for the full minute without beingness challenged is a special achievement. Nevertheless, if a panellist is speaking fluently on a subject field, staying reasonably within the three rules, and seems probable to speak for the whole minute, the other panellists often refrain from challenging. On occasion a similar courtesy has been extended by the whistle-blower, who will refrain from indicating the end of the minute so as to not interrupt a panellist in full and entertaining catamenia (this once led to Paul Merton speaking for 1 minute and thirty seconds on the topic "Ram-raiding".^[xvi] There are also occasions when players choose not to fizz because the speaker is amusing the audition past performing badly.

Here is an example of a speech which successfully lasted for a full infinitesimal without existence challenged.

Well it varies according to the person that you are arguing with. Should it be a child that y'all are having a contretemps with, the ideal is deviation tactics. For instance Lola Lupin who I mentioned before won't eat her dinner. So what I do is say, "Yes it is rotten food, let united states sing a vocal", making certain that that particular chanson has a few vowels in it that crave her to open up her mouth! During which I pop the spoon in and I accept won the statement. However if it is an statement with a person that knows their subject what I do is nod sagely and grin superciliously, let them ramble on, and at the end I say "Well I'one thousand pitiful, I recall yous're completely wrong", turn on my heels and leave. I ...^[17]

—Sheila Hancock, on the subject of 'How to win an argument'.

On rare occasions, panellists will challenge themselves, usually by mistake or for laughs.^[18] If successful, last-2nd challenges tin be especially rewarding, as they allow one to speak for a short time merely earn ii points—one for the challenge and 1 for being the last speaker.

The game is so scored and a winner declared, simply the attraction of the show lies less in the contest than in the humor and barrack amidst participants and the chairman.

Participants [edit]

Clement Freud was a panellist on the evidence from 1967 to 2009, making him the longest-serving contestant.

Each program features four panellists, with the exception of six shows in 1968 and another at the end of the 1970–1971 season when there were just iii.

Ian Messiter, the show'south creator, fix the subjects for every prove until his death in 1999. Until 1989 he as well sat on the stage with a stopwatch and blew a whistle when the sixty seconds were up. He has been replaced by a succession of different whistle-blowers, a role which now falls to the production banana.

There have been five regular competitors in the evidence'due south history:

• Cloudless Freud (1967–2009)
• Derek Nimmo (1967–1999)
• Kenneth Williams (1968–1988)
• Peter Jones (1971–2000)
• Paul Merton (1989–date)

Freud and Nimmo appeared from the offset programme in 1967, while Williams joined in the prove's 2d series in 1968. Jones made his début in 1971. Subsequently Williams' death in 1988, Merton (a long-time fan of the show) contacted the producer at Nicholas Parsons' proffer and was invited to participate during the post-obit year.^[19] Nimmo died in 1999, Jones in 2000 and Freud in 2009, leaving Merton as the merely regular, although he is not in every episode.

Each of the regulars brought their individual style to playing the game. Cloudless Freud liked to make lists and to challenge with only a few seconds to go. He was among the testify's more competitive players, regularly referring to the rules and deprecating any deviation from them. Derek Nimmo frequently improvised descriptions of his experiences abroad, many derived from his all-encompassing theatrical tours. He too was highly competitive, and was known for berating the chairman frequently. Peter Jones once said that in all his years playing the game, he never quite got the hang of information technology; nonetheless, his self-deprecating, breviloquent style suited the essential silliness of the evidence. Kenneth Williams was oft the star of the testify: his flamboyant tantrums, curvation put-downs, and mock sycophancy made him the audience's favourite. Williams oft stretched out his speeches by extending every syllable to breaking point (some words lasting for up to 3 seconds), and his outbursts of mock-acrimony regularly included his catchphrase "I've come all the way from Great Portland Street", as though he had journeyed for miles, when in fact his home was just effectually the corner from the BBC studios where most recordings took place.^[twenty] Merton ofttimes launches into surreal flights of fancy and fantasy, such as claiming to have had unusual occupations or to have experienced significant historical events. He also often wins points by challenging but before the whistle or for humorous challenges, another technique being to say the same word in the singular and the plural, for inexperienced panellists to challenge incorrectly.^[20]

Guest panellists [edit]

Over the 50-year history of the show, there take been many other panellists. Those appearing more than 20 times include:

• Pam Ayres
• Gyles Brandreth
• Marcus Brigstocke
• Julian Clary
• Alun Cochrane
• Charles Collingwood
• Barry Cryer
• Jenny Eclair
• Stephen Fry
• Sheila Hancock
• Tony Hawks
• Kit Hesketh-Harvey
• Josie Lawrence
• Aimi MacDonald
• Andree Melly
• Chris Neill
• Ross Noble
• Graham Norton
• Sue Perkins
• Tim Rice
• Wendy Richard
• Linda Smith
• Liza Tarbuck

Others appearing as panellists on the programme include:

• James Acaster
• Chris Addison
• Ray Alan
• Juno Alexander
• Tom Allen
• Stephen K. Amos
• Toni Arthur
• John Baddeley
• Bill Bailey
• Joan Bakewell
• Clare Balding
• Dane Baptiste
• Angela Barnes
• Isobel Barnett
• Lucy Bartlett
• Simon Bates
• Jeremy Beadle
• Lucy Beaumont
• Elisabeth Beresford
• Teddie Beverley
• Carol Binstead
• John Bishop
• Barbara Blake Hannah
• Henry Blofeld
• Hugh Bonneville
• Fern Britton
• Tim Brooke-Taylor
• Janet Brown
• Ken Bruce
• Rob Brydon
• Rob Buckman
• Hannibal Buress
• Jason Byrne
• Susan Calman
• Ian Carmichael
• Michael Cashman
• Barbara Castle
• Jo Caulfield
• Daliso Chaponda
• Lorraine Chase
• Denise Coffey
• Peter Melt
• Bernard Cribbins
• Jack Dee
• Hugh Dennis
• Blythe Duff
• Kevin Eldon
• Pippa Evans
• Kenny Everett
• Wilma Ewart
• Vanessa Feltz
• Craig Ferguson
• Lynn Ferguson
• Fenella Fielding
• John Finnemore
• William Franklyn
• Liz Fraser
• Emma Freud
• Rebecca Front
• Stephen Frost
• Graeme Garden
• Rhod Gilbert
• Annabel Giles
• Fi Glover
• Liza Goddard
• Janey Godley
• Kerry Godliman
• Dave Gorman
• Andy Hamilton
• Jeremy Hardy
• Diane Hart^{[21] [ failed verification ]}
• Richard Herring
• Thora Hird
• Ian Hislop
• Rufus Hound
• Renée Houston
• Robin Ince
• Charmian Innes
• Eddie Izzard
• David Jacobs
• Martin Jarvis
• Brian Johnston
• Geraldine Jones
• Peter Jones
• Ruth Jones
• John Junkin
• Phill Jupitus
• Miles Jupp
• Miriam Karlin
• Russell Kane
• Gerry Kelly
• Henry Kelly
• Shappi Khorsandi
• Patrick Kielty
• Miles Kington
• Nish Kumar
• Bettine Le Young man
• Helen Lederer
• Maureen Lipman
• Moira Lister
• Sean Lock
• Josie Long
• Joe Lycett
• Zoe Lyons
• Fred MacAulay
• Lee Mack
• Jacqueline MacKenzie
• Jason Manford
• Stephen Mangan
• Miriam Margolyes
• Alfred Marks
• Betty Marsden
• Jean Marsh
• Pete McCarthy
• Maria McErlane
• Alistair McGowan
• Pauline McLynn
• Ian McMillan
• Mike McShane
• Andrée Melly
• Ian Messiter
• Millie Small
• David Mitchell
• Warren Mitchell
• Bob Monkhouse
• Patrick Moore
• Justin Moorhouse
• Richard Morton
• Neil Mullarkey
• Jimmy Mulville
• Richard Murdoch
• Al Murray
• Chris Neill
• Dara Ó Briain
• Owen O'Neill
• Michael Palin
• Nicholas Parsons
• Sara Pascoe
• Lance Percival
• Su Pollard
• Greg Proops
• Marjorie Proops
• Steve Punt
• Libby Purves
• Magnus Pyke
• Caroline Quentin
• Esther Rantzen
• Jan Ravens
• Beryl Reid
• Nick Revell
• Anneka Rice
• Kate Robbins
• Kenneth Robinson
• Jonathan Ross
• Willie Rushton
• Katherine Ryan
• Alexei Sayle
• Prunella Scales
• Will Self
• John Sergeant
• Lee Simpson
• Paul Sinha
• Frank Skinner
• Tony Slattery
• Arthur Smith
• Victor Spinetti
• Richard Stilgoe
• Elaine Stritch
• Una Stubbs
• Eleanor Summerfield
• Jim Sweeney
• David Tennant
• Christopher Timothy
• Sandi Toksvig
• Barry Took
• Tommy Trinder
• Joan Turner
• Stanley Unwin
• Tim Vine
• Richard Vranch
• Rick Wakeman
• Roy Walker
• David Walliams Comic Relief Special 2011
• Holly Walsh
• Suki Webster
• Katharine Whitehorn
• June Whitfield
• Josh Widdicombe
• Simon Williams
• Anona Winn
• Dale Winton
• Terry Wogan
• Michael Wood
• Victoria Wood

Invitee presenters [edit]

Nicholas Parsons chaired the show from its inception until 2019. On nine occasions he appeared on the panel, and others have acted as chairman including Cloudless Freud,^{[22] [23] [24] [25]} Geraldine Jones,^[26] Andrée Melly "as our contribution to the women's liberation movement",^{[27] [25] [28]} and Kenneth Williams.^{[29] [30] [31] [25]} Ian Messiter was chairman on one occasion in 1977,^{[32] [25]} when Freud arrived belatedly and Parsons took his place on the panel.

Parsons appeared on every show for 51 years, either as chairman or panellist, until he was absent through illness for two episodes recorded in April 2018 and broadcast the post-obit June. Those shows were hosted past Gyles Brandreth,^{[33] [34]} as were 2 episodes recorded and circulate in August 2019, when Parsons was again unwell.

Following Parsons' death, the BBC started broadcasting new episodes in 2021 with guest hosts including Gyles Brandreth, Paul Merton, Stephen Fry, Jo Brand, Nish Kumar, Julian Clary, Lucy Porter, Sue Perkins, Tom Allen and Jenny Eclair,^{[35] [36] [37] [38]} before Perkins was announced as permanent host.

Producers [edit]

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Over the years, more two dozen producers accept worked on Merely a Minute.

Recording locations [edit]

The first show in 1967 was recorded in the Playhouse Theatre in key London,^{[39] [ failed verification ]} and the 35th anniversary testify was besides recorded at that place, and broadcast on New year's Day 2003.^[40]

For the first thirty years, about shows were recorded in the Paris Theatre in central London. In 1992, a new producer, Sarah Smith, took the show outside primal London and recorded some shows in nearby Highgate.^[41] A year later, the evidence left London for the first time; the beginning such shows broadcast were recorded in Bury St Edmunds^[42] and Llandudno .^[43] The evidence started going to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1993 and has been there every twelvemonth since.^[44] In recent years most shows, though not all, have been recorded at the BBC Radio Theatre in Broadcasting House in central London.

In Feb 2012, two episodes of the show were recorded at the One-act Store, in Bombay in India, the offset time the show has recorded outside Uk. The program played for many years on the BBC Earth Service and is said to have a large following in India.^[45]

Tv versions [edit]

Several telly versions take been attempted. Two airplane pilot episodes were recorded for idiot box in 1969 and 1981 merely never broadcast, except in documentaries almost Kenneth Williams.

In 1994, 14 shows were broadcast on Carlton Television receiver, ITV in London. Two boosted variations were added: a round in which the team were presented with a mystery object to talk about, rather than a subject, and another circular where the audition suggested a topic. Nicholas Parsons chaired the show, and Tony Slattery featured in all programmes. Other panellists were Tony Banks, Tony Blackburn, Jo Brand, Ann Bryson, John Fortune, Clement Freud, Mariella Frostrup, Jeremy Hardy, Tony Hawks, Hattie Hayridge, Kit Hesketh-Harvey, Helen Lederer, Pete McCarthy, Neil Mullarkey, Derek Nimmo, Graham Norton, Nick Revell, Ted Robbins, Lee Simpson, Arthur Smith, Jim Sweeney and Richard Vranch.

In 1995, fourteen more episodes were broadcast. Merely a Minute became a team game, with the Midlands and London playing against each other, under team captains Tony Slattery and Dale Winton. Each player earned private points, which were totalled for each squad at the end of the prove. Nicholas Parsons again chaired the shows. The gimmick of the audition choosing a field of study was abandoned in this serial. Other panellists were Tony Banks, Tony Blackburn, Craig Charles, Cloudless Freud, Mariella Frostrup, Liza Goddard, Jeremy Hardy, Kit Hesketh-Harvey, Helen Lederer, Carolyn Marshall, Graham Norton, Su Pollard, Wendy Richard, Arthur Smith, Jim Sweeney and Richard Vranch. Both this series and the series before were produced by Mike Mansfield.^[46]

In 1999, the BBC televised the show, with xx episodes recorded during a single week in Birmingham. Nicholas Parsons was again the chairman. There were no regular panellists simply those appearing were Pam Ayres, Clare Balding, Isla Blair, Jo Brand, Gyles Brandreth, Ken Bruce, Michael Cashman, Barry Cryer, Stephen Frost, Liza Goddard, Tony Hawks, Peter Jones, Maria McErlane, Richard Morton, Tom O'Connor, Su Pollard, Steve Punt, Wendy Richard, John Sergeant, Brian Sewell, Linda Smith, Richard Vranch and Gary Wilmot. The series was produced by Helena Taylor.

In March and April 2012, the BBC broadcast x episodes, recorded over a week at the BBC Goggle box Centre in London, to marker the 45th anniversary of the programme. For the first time, the shows were shown in prime time at half-dozen pm each night over two weeks on BBC 2. Nicholas Parsons again chaired the program and Paul Merton appeared in all episodes. Other panellists were Gyles Brandreth, Hugh Bonneville, Marcus Brigstocke, Julian Clary, Stephen Fry, Tony Hawks, Ruth Jones, Phill Jupitus, Miles Jupp, Shappi Khorsandi, Josie Lawrence, Jason Manford, Stephen Mangan, Graham Norton, Sue Perkins, John Sergeant, Liza Tarbuck and Russell Tovey. No changes were made to the format of the game. The shows were produced by Andy Brereton and Jamie Ormerod.^[47]

Audiobook releases [edit]

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For the prove'south 25th ceremony in 1992, a two-60 minutes compilation anthology entitled Just A Minute: Silver Minutes was released on long-play vinyl and cassette. The following twelvemonth, an eponymous album Only A Infinitesimal was released containing three then-recent episodes from 1991 and 1993. A farther cassette with four recent episodes entitled Merely A Minute 2 followed in 1996. Just A Minute three in 1999 saw the start of regular annual releases featuring 4 of the all-time episodes from the previous year. After Just A Minute 8 in 2004, the post-obit year'south release was titled Only A Infinitesimal: The Best Of 2005 and an end-of-year collection has been released every year since with Simply A Minute: The Best Of 2017 due for release on ii November.

In 2004, the BBC began a separate annual series of double CD releases collecting older episodes covering the shows showtime 30 years entitled Just A Classic Minute: Book 1. Each episode had a newly-recorded introduction by Parsons (for later volumes, Parsons and Merton in discussion). The outset four volumes were also released in a box prepare entitled Just A Classic Minute: 40th Anniversary Collection in 2007. The series finished in 2010 with the release of Just A Classic Infinitesimal: Book 7.

In 2010, Simply A Infinitesimal: Series 56 became the first series to be made available in its entirety for buy via digital download. This continued upward to Just A Minute: Series 67. The pattern resumed for Just A Minute: Series 71 onwards, with complete series also fabricated available on Compact Disc.

In 2011, five double CDs were released with each book focusing on a "Classic" selection of each of the main regular panellists (eg. Only A Minute: Classic Kenneth Williams, Just A Minute: Archetype Paul Merton, etc.) The five volumes were also available as a box set entitled Just A Minute: The Classic Collection along with a bonus CD. The "Classic Clement Freud" CD and audio download was withdrawn from sites such every bit Amazon and iTunes post-obit the posthumous revelations about him. A 2nd box set was released in 2014 entitled Just A Minute: Another Classic Collection. It followed the same theme every bit its predecessor, this time focusing on five non-regulars who are frequent panellists, namely Sheila Hancock, Gyles Brandreth, Jenny Éclair, Stephen Fry and Graham Norton. Once over again, in that location was a bonus disc with the box set which was not available with the separate volumes. In 2015, a third box fix entitled Just A Minute: A Farther Classic Drove focused on Tim Rice, Wendy Richard, Tony Hawks, Sue Perkins and Julian Clary.

In 2017, a box set entitled Just A Minute: Golden Collection was released to celebrate the show'due south 50th ceremony. Controversially, more than than one-half the selected episodes featured Freud despite the revelations about him in the previous year.

Other formats [edit]

In Sweden, a version of the testify, called På Minuten (Swedish for 'In the Infinitesimal '), has been broadcast on Sveriges Radio P1 since 1969. In Republic of india, a Malayalam version, known as ഒരു നിമിഷം , Oru Nimiṣaṁ , '(Only a Moment)', has been circulate since 2017 on Flowers TV, hosted by Sreekandan Nair; the programme was previously broadcast on Asianet, Dooradarshan and Malayalam radio station Akashavani. In Belgium a Flemish version, chosen Zeg eens euh! , was circulate from 1992 to 1997 on Één, and was revived in 2016 on Vier.

I'm Sorry I Oasis't a Clue, some other BBC radio comedy panel show which occupies the same Mon-dark slot in the Radio iv schedule, occasionally parodies its rival show with a round entitled "Just a Minim".^[48] In this spoof version the contestants must sing songs — always called for their highly repetitive lyrics — without repetition, hesitation, or deviation (from the tune). The chairman, currently Jack Dee who has himself been a guest on Only a Minute, imitates Nicholas Parsons' mode.

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27. ^ "Episode 115". But a Minute. Series six. Episode 26. iv April 1972. BBC Radio 4.
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30. ^ "Just a Minute". Radio Times. Vol. 186, no. 2415 (London & South East ed.). BBC Publications. 19 February 1970. p. 29. Retrieved 30 January 2020. A console game controlled (!) this week past Kenneth Williams.
31. ^ "Episode 331". Merely a Infinitesimal. Series 17. Episode fourteen. 16 Oct 1983. BBC Radio iv.
32. ^ "Episode 230". But a Minute. Series 11. Episode 11. 12 Jan 1977. BBC Radio 4.
33. ^ "But a Minute: Series 81, Episode 5". BBC Radio four. BBC Sounds. BBC. xi June 2018. Retrieved 30 January 2020. Gyles Brandreth temporarily takes over from Nicholas Parsons equally the chairman of the iconic console game.
34. ^ "Merely a Minute: Series 81, Episode 6". BBC Radio 4. BBC Sounds. BBC. 18 June 2018. Retrieved 30 January 2020. Presenter: Gyles Brandreth
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38. ^ "Just a Infinitesimal - Series 86, Episode 9". bbc.co.uk . Retrieved iv April 2021.
39. ^ "Just a Minute". Radio Times. Vol. 177, no. 2301 (London & South East ed.). BBC Publications. 14 December 1967. p. 65. Retrieved 30 January 2020. Pre-recorded at The Piccadilly, 201 Piccadilly, London W1.
40. ^ "Just a Infinitesimal's 35th Birthday Show". Radio Times. Vol. 315, no. 4111 (London ed.). BBC Magazines. 19 December 2002. p. 211. Retrieved 30 Jan 2020. Nicholas Parsons and panellists Clement Freud, Sheila Hancock, Paul Merton and Graham Norton return to the evidence's first venue, the Playhouse Theatre, London, to celebrate 35 years of hesitation, repetition and deviation.
41. ^ "Just a Infinitesimal!". Radio Times. Vol. 272, no. 3549 (London ed.). BBC Magazines. 2 January 1992. p. 87. Retrieved 30 Jan 2020. Special edition from Highgate mark the first programme in the 25th series
42. ^ "Episode 424". Just a Minute. Series 26. Episode 1. ii Jan 1993. BBC Radio 4. Transcript from just-a-minute.info. This detail edition of Just A Minute comes from the beautiful and ancient Theatre Royal in the delightful and quondam urban center of Bury St Edmonds.
43. ^ "Episode 426". Just a Minute. Series 26. Episode three. xvi January 1993. BBC Radio 4. Transcript from but-a-infinitesimal.info. This particular recording of Just A Minute is coming from the beautiful seaside boondocks of Due north Wales, Llandudno .
44. ^ "Episode 445". Simply a Infinitesimal. 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 nosotros're playing here in the Pleasance Theatre before a very blithe and excited fringe Edinburgh audience.
45. ^ Parsons, Nicholas (2012). Just a Minute's Indian Adventure (BBC Sounds) (Programme trailer). Bombay: BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 30 Jan 2020. For much of the past 45 years, Just a Minute was broadcast on the BBC Globe Service; with the show becoming something of a hit, particularly in India.
46. ^ "Mike Mansfield". IMDb.
47. ^ Wolf, Ian (20 Oct 2011). "Just A Infinitesimal to be adapted for TV for 45th anniversary". British Comedy Guide . Retrieved 21 October 2011. A x-part series will be broadcast in BBC Two'due south daytime schedule, presented by long-serving host Nicholas Parsons and featuring semi-regular panellist Paul Merton.
48. ^ Williams, Mike. "Games Compendium: J". The Officially Unofficial I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue web pages . Retrieved xxx January 2020. This is a musical variation on some other Radio 4 one-act console game, Just a Minute. In this game the panellists accept to sing a song (such as One Homo Went to Mow) without hesitation, repetition, deviation, or repetition.

External links [edit]

• Just a Minute at BBC Online
• Simply a Minute at British One-act Guide
• Simply a Infinitesimal fansite

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_a_Minute

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