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Just a Minute: A Classic Quartet
- Four classic episodes of the Radio 4 comedy panel game
- Narrated by: full cast, Kenneth Williams, Nicholas Parsons
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
- Radio/TV Programme
- Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Entertainment & Performing Arts
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In this complete collection of episodes from series 83 of Just a Minute, Nicholas Parsons invites guests to try to speak for 60 seconds on a variety of subjects. With panellists including Paul Merton, Tony Hawks, Josie Lawrence, Gyles Brandreth, Angela Barnes, Sheila Hancock, Josh Widdicombe, Julian Clary and Lee Mack, this series shows just why Just a Minute has been entertaining generations of listeners since its first series in 1967. Who can talk for one minute without hesitation, repetition or deviation from the subject? Find out as we play Just a Minute!
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very funny
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Just a Minute: Remembering Nicholas Parsons
- Including Series 85 of the BBC Radio 4 Panel Game
- By: BBC Radio Comedy
- Narrated by: Adrian Edmondson, Graham Norton, Gyles Brandreth, and others
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Nicholas Parsons was the host of the Just a Minute for nearly 52 years - from its first broadcast on 22nd December 1967 until his last show on 23rd September 2019, aged 96. He was a comedy 'straight man', West End actor, radio personality, game-show presenter, chat-show host, quiz master supreme and larger-than-life stage superstar. Here we celebrate his life and work with a series of programmes compered by Paul Merton, plus Series 85 of Just a Minute - his final series.
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RIP Nicholas Parsons
- By @slytherinshare on 29-01-21
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Just a Minute 2021: The Complete Series 86 & 87
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- Narrated by: Sue Perkins, Stephen Fry, Paul Merton, and others
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Radio 4's longest-running panel game returns for the first time since the death of much-missed maestro Nicholas Parsons, who chaired the show for more than 50 years. Following in his footsteps for series 86 are an array of special guest hosts, including Paul Merton, Sue Perkins, Nish Kumar, Jenny Eclair, Gyles Brandreth, Lucy Porter, Stephen Fry, Julian Clary, Tom Allen and Jo Brand, while in series 87, Sue Perkins takes the chair and endeavours to keep the participants in check.
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Just a Minute: Series 80
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Just a Minute: Series 81
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In this complete collection of episodes from series 81 of Just a Minute, Nicholas Parsons invites guests to try to speak for 60 seconds on a variety of subjects such as fishnet stockings, sharks, the Wild West, the Theory of Evolution, bungee jumping and wheelbarrows. With panellists including Paul Merton, Josie Lawrence, Sara Pascoe, Tony Hawks, Shelia Hancock, Fern Britton, Graham Norton, Marcus Brigstocke, Rebecca Front and Gyles Brandreth, this series shows just why Just a Minute has been entertaining generations of listeners since its first series in 1967.
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Just a Minute: Series 83
- The BBC Radio 4 Comedy Panel Game
- By: BBC Radio Comedy
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- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
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In this complete collection of episodes from series 83 of Just a Minute, Nicholas Parsons invites guests to try to speak for 60 seconds on a variety of subjects. With panellists including Paul Merton, Tony Hawks, Josie Lawrence, Gyles Brandreth, Angela Barnes, Sheila Hancock, Josh Widdicombe, Julian Clary and Lee Mack, this series shows just why Just a Minute has been entertaining generations of listeners since its first series in 1967. Who can talk for one minute without hesitation, repetition or deviation from the subject? Find out as we play Just a Minute!
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Just a Minute: Series 82
- The BBC Radio 4 Comedy Panel Game
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In this complete collection of episodes from series 82 of Just a Minute, Nicholas Parsons invites guests to try to speak for 60 seconds on a variety of subjects such as George V, favourite breakfast eateries, canals, bad apples and pasta. With panellists including Paul Merton, Sheila Hancock, Jan Ravens, Tony Hawkes, Gyles Brandreth and Zoe Lyons, this series shows just why Just a Minute has been entertaining generations of listeners since its first series in 1967. Who can talk for one minute without hesitation, repetition or deviation from the subject? Find out as we play Just a Minute!
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- Including Series 85 of the BBC Radio 4 Panel Game
- By: BBC Radio Comedy
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- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
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RIP Nicholas Parsons
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- The BBC Radio 4 Panel Game
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- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
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Just a Minute: Series 78
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- By: BBC Radio Comedy
- Narrated by: Nicholas Parsons, full cast
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Just a Minute: Series 79
- BBC Radio 4 Comedy Panel Game
- By: BBC Radio Comedy
- Narrated by: full cast, Nicholas Parsons
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
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- Four Episodes of the Much-Loved BBC Radio Comedy Game
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- By: BBC Radio Comedy
- Narrated by: Nicholas Parsons, Paul Merton, full cast
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Just a Minute: Series 75
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Nicholas Parsons chairs six more episodes of the evergreen BBC Radio 4 panel game. Fresh from winning the Radio Award for comedy in the 2016 Chortle Awards, the perennially popular show returns for a 75th series. Guests joining Nicholas Parsons include regulars Paul Merton, Josie Lawrence, Sheila Hancock and Marcus Brigstocke, as well as relative newcomers Josh Widdicombe and Holly Walsh.
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Just a Minute: A Vintage Collection
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A further delightful collection of 12 episodes of the ever popular BBC Radio four-panel game chaired by Nicholas Parsons. Loved for the verbal dexterity, wicked wit and competitive edge of its participants, Just a Minute has welcomed scores of guest players to the game since it began in 1967. In this collection the players are at their players at their cleverest and funniest. With episodes taken from the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s this collection is a must-have for old and new fans alike!
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fun on the bus
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Just a Minute
- Another Classic Collection
- By: BBC Comedy
- Narrated by: Nicholas Parsons
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A sparkling collection of 22 classic episodes of the ever-popular BBC Radio 4 panel game chaired by Nicholas Parsons. Showcasing five key players from the past five decades - Sheila Hancock, Gyles Brandreth, Jenny Eclair, Stephen Fry and Graham Norton - the collection also includes two bonus Christmas themed editions of the show. Loved for the verbal dexterity, wicked wit and competitive edge of its participants, Just a Minute has welcomed scores of guest players to the game since it began in 1967.
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Review with no repetition, deviation, hesitation
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Just a Minute: Series 76
- The BBC Radio 4 Comedy Panel Game
- By: BBC Radio Comedy
- Narrated by: Nicholas Parsons, Paul Merton
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
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The complete 76th series of the much-loved BBC Radio 4 comedy panel game, chaired by Nicholas Parsons. Just a Minute has been entertaining generations of listeners since its first series in 1967. Here regular players, including Paul Merton, return to do verbal battle with newer players of the game, all the time seeking to avoid hesitation, repetition and deviation.
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Every New Series Gets Better.
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Just a Minute: Series 74
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- Narrated by: full cast, Nicholas Parsons, Paul Merton
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
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Six episodes of the perennially popular BBC Radio 4 panel game, chaired by Nicholas Parsons. Just a Minute was born the same year as Radio 4 itself and is one of the longest-running and best-loved radio comedy shows. Hosted by the inimitable Nicholas Parsons, it tasks contestants to speak for sixty seconds on any given topic 'without repetition, hesitation or deviation'. Under the watchful eye of the Chairman, they must fend off challenges and win points using only their wit, ingenuity and improvisational skills.
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Four more extended episodes from the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series, specially compiled by producer Jon Naismith. Another collection of episodes from the famous antidote to panel games now in its 18th edition. Jack Dee challenges regular panellists Tim Brooke-Taylor, and Barry Cryer, with a series of silly games against which to pit their wits. In tribute to Jeremy Hardy, a long-running guest panellist on the show who passed away in 2019, he features in every episode.
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Just a Minute: Best of 2018
- 4 episodes of the much-loved BBC Radio comedy game
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Summary
Four classic episodes of the popular BBC Radio 4 panel game.
Episodes from 5 January 1977, 8 January 1980, 11 March 1980 and 23 June 1988.
Nicholas Parsons chairs four archive episodes of the evergreen BBC Radio 4 comedy panel game, featuring the four original regular players: Clement Freud, Peter Jones, Derek Nimmo and Kenneth Williams. These specially selected episodes, all published for the first time, see the formidable foursome squaring up to each other in a battle of wits - and wit.
As they endeavour to prevent each other from talking for a full minute, topics introduced - and swiftly dismissed - include bath night, Donald Duck, getting in a frenzy, gooey buns, my accolade, the most pleasing city I have visited, getting uptight and poppadoms.
Camaraderie, competition and brilliant banter are the order of the day as these sparkling raconteurs come out with some of their best and funniest lines and demonstrate their quick thinking and wonderful ways with words. Full of comic gems and irreverent fun, these four classic shows are a delight to listen to.