Just a Minute: The Golden Collection: Celebrating 50 Years

by Ian Messiter (Creator), Nicholas Parsons (Narrator), Kenneth Williams (Narrator)

To celebrate 50 years of Just a Minute, 12 previously unpublished archive episodes of the much-loved BBC Radio 4 panel game, presented by Nicholas Parsons

What better way to mark a glorious half century of Just a Minute than with a collection of episodes from each of the program's six decades, ranging from 1968 to the very special Christmas 2016 edition, Just a Minute Does Panto!

As has been the case for each of those 50 years, Nicholas Parsons chairs every edition with impeccable manners and good humor. The plethora of seasoned players includes Kenneth Williams, Derek Nimmo, Peter Jones, Paul Merton, Graham Norton, Tony Hawks, Gyles Brandreth and Sheila Hancock, and competing alongside them is an array of celebrated guests including Peter Cook, Barry Took, Brian Johnston, Ian Hislop, Betty Marsden, Sue Perkins, Liza Tarbuck, Jeremy Hardy, Stephen Fry and many others. Who can talk for one minute on a given subject without hesitation, repetition or deviating from the subject?

Who will leap in at the last second to trounce the competition and secure the lead? Find out as we play Just a Minute! Duration: 5 hours 45 mins approx.

6 pages, Audible Audio

First published September 17, 2017

About the author

Ian Cassan Messiter was a BBC Radio producer and the creator of a number of panel games, including Just a Minute, and Many a Slip. He was also the Programme Associate on Family Fortunes. Messiter was born in Dudley, Worcestershire and educated at Sherborne School in Dorset. He acted as whistle blower on both One Minute Please and Just a Minute. He published his autobiography My Life and Other Games in 1990.

Apart from game shows, Messiter wrote several plays for the BBC, including Mr Drake's Duck, a comedy which was filmed in 1950 with Douglas Fairbanks Jnr as the star.