Just a Minute: 1x2

Julian Clary, Stephen Fry and Russell Tovey

Celebrating 45 years of this classic radio comedy panel game, host Nicolas Parsons is joined by guests each week. The players try to speak for one minute on a subject while avoiding hesitation, repetition and deviation.

Seasons and episodes

Season 0 : Specials

Jan 01, 1970

Season 1 : 2012 series

Mar 26, 2012

Season 2 : 1994 series

Jan 01, 1970

Season 4 : 1999 Series

Jan 01, 1970

Season 5 : 1995 Series

Jan 01, 1970

1 - 1 : Graham Norton, Sue Perkins and Phill Jupitus

Mar 26, 2012

1 - 2 : Julian Clary, Stephen Fry and Russell Tovey

Mar 27, 2012

1 - 3 : Sue Perkins, Marcus Brigstocke and Ruth Jones

Mar 28, 2012

1 - 4 : Liza Tarbuck, Gyles Brandreth and Miles Jupp

Mar 29, 2012

1 - 5 : Josie Lawrence, John Sergeant and Jason Manford

Mar 30, 2012

1 - 6 : Graham Norton, Sue Perkins and Tony Hawks

Apr 02, 2012

1 - 7 : Shappi Khorsandi, Hugh Bonneville and Jason Manford

Apr 03, 2012

1 - 8 : Sue Perkins, Marcus Brigstocke and Stephen Mangan

Apr 04, 2012

1 - 9 : Liza Tarbuck, Gyles Brandreth and Tony Hawks

Apr 05, 2012

1 - 10 : Julian Clary, Stephen Fry and Shappi Khorsandi

Apr 06, 2012

Synopsis

Just a Minute is a BBC Radio 4 radio comedy and television panel game chaired by Nicholas Parsons. Its first transmission on Radio 4 was on 22 December 1967, three months after the station's launch. The Radio 4 programme won a Gold Sony Radio Academy Award in 2003. The object of the game is for panellists to talk for sixty seconds on a given subject, "without repetition, hesitation or deviation". The comedy comes from attempts to keep within these rules and the banter among the participants. In 2011 comedy writer David Quantick ascribed Just a Minute's success to its "insanely basic" format, stating, "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."