"appeared on the panel, and others have acted as chairman including Sir Clement Freud, Geraldine Jones, Andrée Melly ""as our contribution to the women's liberation movement"", and Kenneth Williams. Ian Messiter was chairman on one occasion in 1977, when Freud arrived late and Nicholas Parsons took his place on the panel. Parsons had appeared on every show, either as chairman or panelist, until Series 81 Episode 4 when he was absent for the first time in the show's 51 year history. That show, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 18:30hrs on the 4th June 2018, was hosted by Gyles Brandreth"
"Nicholas Parsons Christopher Nicholas Parsons (born 10 October 1923) is an English radio and television presenter and actor. Still active in his 90s, Parsons' long career in television, radio and theatre has made him a household name and he has been described as ""the ultimate quiz show host"" because of his ""geniality, clarity of diction and the speed with which he rattled through questions"". Best known today for his long-standing position as host of the comedy radio game show ""Just a Minute"" in six different decades, Parsons is also famous as the long-term host of ""Sale of the Century"", a"
"in the same film. The long running radio comedy ""Just a Minute"" first aired on BBC Radio 4 in 1967. Panellists must talk for sixty seconds on a given subject, ""without hesitation, repetition or deviation"". Guests over the years have included Stephen Fry, Eddie Izzard and Sue Perkins. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978, the science fiction comedy radio series ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" was innovative in its use of music and sound effects. The BBC, as a public service broadcaster, also runs minority stations such as BBC Asian Network, BBC Radio 1Xtra and BBC Radio"
"early years of the long-running BBC radio comedy ""Just a Minute"" she was a regular panellist. Along with Sheila Hancock, she was one of the most regular female contestants, appearing in fifty-four episodes between 1967 and 1976. In 1972, she chaired an episode. She was the first panellist to win points for talking for the prescribed 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation. She also appeared in several episodes of the ""Benny Hill Show"". Her brother, George Melly, was a jazz singer. She now lives in Ibiza with her husband Oscar Quitak. Andrée Melly Andrée Melly (born 15 September 1932)"
"Chris Stuart Chris Stuart (born 1949) is a British journalist, songwriter and radio and television presenter and producer. He is Executive Producer of the BBC Two quiz series ""Only Connect"". As a presenter he fronted the early breakfast show on BBC Radio 2 between 1988 and 1991. He was also one of the first presenters on BBC Radio Wales. Stuart was born in Durham City and grew up in Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire. He read politics, philosophy and economics at New College, Oxford, and after graduating moved to Wales where he began working as a journalist for the ""Western Mail"". He"
"unit of time). The recording used for the theme is of David Haines. In 2018, Nicholas Parsons was unable to attend the recording of two editions of the programme as he had the flu. This broke his uninterrupted run of fifty years as a performer on the programme. The episodes were recorded on 1 April 2018 with Gyles Brandreth standing in for Parsons and were broadcast on 4 and 11 June 2018. The panellists are invited, in rotation, to speak for one minute on a given subject (which they are normally not informed of in advance), without ""hesitation, repetition or"
"""The Benny Hill Show"" from 1968 to 1971. After Haynes' sudden death, Parsons appeared as a personality in his own right on television, including in the long-running Anglia Television quiz show ""Sale of the Century"", broadcast weekly from 1971 to 1984. In 1983 Hill wrote and performed in the sketch ""Sale of the Half Century"", with himself cast as Parsons. Parsons has been the host of the BBC Radio 4 comedy panel game ""Just a Minute"" since it was first broadcast on 22 December 1967. The show continues to be transmitted and Parsons has been heard in every edition until"
"the theme to BBC TV’s ""The Secret Garden"" (1975). His oboe playing features prominently in the song ""Twist in My Sobriety"" by Tanita Tikaram. Malcolm Messiter Malcolm Messiter (born 1949) is a British oboist, particularly known for his recording of the virtuosic 'La Favorita' Concerto by Antonio Pasculli. He is the son of Ian Messiter, the creator of the BBC panel show, Just a Minute, and his wife Enid (née Senior). Messiter began playing the oboe at the age of 15 whilst a student at Bryanston School in Blandford Forum, Dorset. His first oboe teacher was Douglas Heffer, who taught"
"BBC"". On 27 October 2017 she appeared in an episode of British travel documentary series ""Travel Man"" on Channel 4. In February 2018, she started a BBC Radio 4 series called ""Modern Monkey"". In April 2018 she appeared as a panelist in two episodes of the BBC Radio 4 panel show ""Just A Minute"", coming fourth in both episodes. In May 2018 she starred in a BBC comedy short entitled ""Sara Pascoe vs Monogamy"". Pascoe is a vegan. She lives in London. From 2013 to late 2016, Pascoe dated comedian John Robins, and her reflections on that relationship and its"
"It's Only a Theory It's Only a Theory is a British television panel game show, first aired on BBC Four in 2009. It was conceived by and starred Andy Hamilton and featured Reginald D. Hunter as a regular panelist. Announced by the BBC in April 2009, the eight episode series was produced by Hat Trick Productions. The panelists discuss theories ""about life, the universe and everything"" submitted by professionals and experts. The panel debates each theory and decides whether it is worth keeping. The two regular panelists were joined by one guest in each of the episodes. The first episode"
"live from The Comedy Store in London. The second series of ""Jest a Minute"" was recorded in late 2008 in Cardiff's Glee Club, hosted by Gilbert and featuring regular team captains Chris Corcoran and Lloyd Langford, and guests from the comedy circuit such as Elis James, Greg Davies, Lucy Porter and Jon Richardson. A third series was also broadcast. Gilbert was also the host of BBC Radio 4's ""4 Stands Up"" comedy series which aired in the Autumn of 2008 and has also appeared twice on Radio Four's ""Just a Minute"", Radio 2's ""Does the Team Think?"", and BBC Radio"
"work"", going on the say: ""It isn't that the machinery doesn't work, it's that they completely forgot to put the machinery in."" It's Only a Theory It's Only a Theory is a British television panel game show, first aired on BBC Four in 2009. It was conceived by and starred Andy Hamilton and featured Reginald D. Hunter as a regular panelist. Announced by the BBC in April 2009, the eight episode series was produced by Hat Trick Productions. The panelists discuss theories ""about life, the universe and everything"" submitted by professionals and experts. The panel debates each theory and decides"
"member on Radio 4's ""The News Quiz"" and has made regular appearances on Radio 2's ""It's Been a Bad Week"". She is also a frequent panellist on another popular Radio 4 show, ""Just a Minute"": in the 2012 television version, she appeared in four out of the 10 episodes (more than any other panellist except Paul Merton who appeared in all 10) and won on all four occasions. She was the chairman of Radio 4's ""The 99p Challenge"" until the show finished in 2004. Perkins appeared every day in the last half hour of Mark Radcliffe's afternoon radio show on"
"Ian Messiter Ian Cassan Messiter (2 April 1920 – 22 November 1999) was a BBC Radio producer and the creator of a number of panel games, including ""Just a Minute"", and ""Many a Slip"". Messiter also brought the successful ""Twenty Questions"" format to BBC Radio. 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 appeared in the first series of the BBC science-fiction quiz show ""The Adventure Game"" in 1980 as the"
"Adventures"", he travels around the world going on popular tourist trails, but still manages to find some extraordinary things. In the late 1980s, Merton appeared on BBC Radio 4's ""The Big Fun Show"". After long-time ""Just a Minute"" panellist Kenneth Williams died in 1988, Merton (a fan of the show) contacted the producer at the suggestion of the host, Nicholas Parsons. He was invited to participate during the following year and has appeared regularly on the programme ever since. In 2016 Merton overtook Williams to become the second most regular panellist, surpassed only by Clement Freud. Besides his work on"
"Rangdo, the leader of the alien Argonds, and contributed some ideas for puzzles in the series. He published his autobiography ""My Life and Other Games"" in 1990. Messiter married Enid, née Senior. They had two children; a daughter Susan, who lives in Cambridgeshire and a son, Malcolm Messiter, who is a world-renowned oboist, and four grandchildren; James, Toby and Emily Beaumont and Helen Messiter. Ian Messiter Ian Cassan Messiter (2 April 1920 – 22 November 1999) was a BBC Radio producer and the creator of a number of panel games, including ""Just a Minute"", and ""Many a Slip"". Messiter also"
"the time. 29 Minutes of Fame 29 Minutes of Fame is a British satirical celebrity quiz series which aired on BBC One on Fridays in early 2005. The show was presented by comedian Bob Mortimer. The show's two team captains were Jo Brand and Alistair McGowan, they were also joined by a regular panelist Sean Lock. The format of the show was similar to another BBC quiz program, ""Have I Got News for You"", but without the politics. Each week three celebrities joined the regular cast on the two panels. The questions were based around comical elements of other celebrity"
"29 Minutes of Fame 29 Minutes of Fame is a British satirical celebrity quiz series which aired on BBC One on Fridays in early 2005. The show was presented by comedian Bob Mortimer. The show's two team captains were Jo Brand and Alistair McGowan, they were also joined by a regular panelist Sean Lock. The format of the show was similar to another BBC quiz program, ""Have I Got News for You"", but without the politics. Each week three celebrities joined the regular cast on the two panels. The questions were based around comical elements of other celebrity figures of"
"judging panel is chaired by ""The Economist’s"" culture correspondent, Fiammetta Rocco, with Stephen Bush, journalist and political commentator; Susan Brigden, historian; Anne-Marie Imafidon, mathematician and campaigner; and Nigel Warburton, philosopher. The longlist was announced on 8 September and the shortlist was announced on 6 October. The 2017 judging panel was chaired by chaired by author and Chairman of ITV Sir Peter Bazalgette, together with Anjana Ahuja, science writer; Ian Bostridge, tenor and writer; Professor Sarah Churchwell, academic and writer and Razia Iqbal, journalist and broadcaster. The longlist was announced on 21 September and the shortlist was announced 17 October. The"
"Watch'. He was also interviewed in the BBC News segment titled 'Having A Laugh In India' and was, along with comedian and presenter Cyrus Broacha, the only Indian comedian on the popular BBC Radio 4 show ""Just A Minute with Nicholas Parsons"". That episode also featured famous British comedians Paul Merton and Marcus Brigstocke. He contributes columns often to magazines like ""Time Out Mumbai"". Three of his plays, ""Chaos Theory"", ""The President Is Coming"" and ""1 888 Dial India"" have been published as novels. He has also written a non fiction book on the Bollywood movie, ""Disco Dancer"". Pal had"
"comedy book about the ups and downs of beekeeping. In March 2018, Turnbull revealed he had been diagnosed the previous November with incurable prostate cancer. Bill Turnbull William Robert Jolyon Turnbull (born 25 January 1956) is an English journalist and presenter, who currently works as a presenter for the radio station Classic FM, following many years as a presenter with the BBC. He was the main male presenter of ""BBC Breakfast"" from 2001 until 2016, and currently presents the religious series ""Songs of Praise"" and game show ""Think Tank"". Turnbull was born in Surrey, South East England, to an English"
"which celebrities talk about the diary that they kept in their teenage years. On 22 February 2016, Hound made his debut as a panellist on BBC Radio 4's ""Just A Minute"" alongside regular Paul Merton and semi-regulars Pam Ayres and Graham Norton Hound plays a fictionalised version of himself in the CBBC TV Series ""Hounded"" as the protagonist, a normal television presenter who must constantly foil the plans of Dr Muhahaha who plans on taking over the world. In 2015, Hound played Sam Swift in an episode of the ninth series of ""Doctor Who"", titled ""The Woman Who Lived"", and"
"film, he made a great deal of money for the franchise."" Williams was a regular on the BBC radio panel game ""Just a Minute"" from its second season in 1968 until his death. He frequently got into arguments with Nicholas Parsons the host and other members of the show. He was also remembered for such phrases as ""I've come all the way from Great Portland Street"" and ""They shouldn't have women on the show!"" (directed at Sheila Hancock, Aimi MacDonald and others). He once talked for almost a minute about a supposed Austrian psychiatrist called Heinrich Swartzberg, correctly guessing that"
"Victoria Coren Mitchell Victoria Elizabeth Coren Mitchell (; 18 August 1972) is an English writer, presenter and professional poker player. Coren Mitchell writes weekly columns for ""The Observer"" and has hosted the BBC television quiz show ""Only Connect"" since 2008. Victoria Elizabeth Coren was born in Hammersmith, west London, and grew up in Cricklewood, north London, the only daughter of the humourist and journalist Alan Coren and his wife Anne Kasriel. Her brother is the journalist Giles Coren. She is related to the Canadian journalist Michael Coren. She attended independent girls' schools between the ages of five and 18 and"
"Malcolm Messiter Malcolm Messiter (born 1949) is a British oboist, particularly known for his recording of the virtuosic 'La Favorita' Concerto by Antonio Pasculli. He is the son of Ian Messiter, the creator of the BBC panel show, Just a Minute, and his wife Enid (née Senior). Messiter began playing the oboe at the age of 15 whilst a student at Bryanston School in Blandford Forum, Dorset. His first oboe teacher was Douglas Heffer, who taught both the oboe and English at Bryanston. Messiter was extremely enthusiastic from the onset and was known to play chamber music concerts at the"
"James Naughtie Alexander James ""Jim"" Naughtie FRSE (surname pronounced ; born 9 August 1951) is a British radio and news presenter for the BBC. From 1994 until 2015 he was one of the main presenters of Radio 4's ""Today"" programme. In July 2015 he announced, via the BBC, that in early 2016 he would retire from regular presenting duties on the programme and would, instead, be its 'Special Correspondent' with 'responsibility for charting the course of the constitutional changes at the heart of the UK political debate', as well as the BBC News's Books Editor, contributing a book review to"
"Louise Minchin Louise Mary Minchin (née Grayson) (born 8 September 1968) is a British journalist and news presenter who currently works freelance within the BBC. Since 2006, Minchin has been a regular anchor on the BBC One programme ""Breakfast"", currently co-hosting the show three days a week with Dan Walker. From 2009 until 2012, Minchin co-hosted ""Real Rescues"" alongside Nick Knowles and Chris Hollins. She has guest-hosted ""The One Show"" a number of times since 2010. Minchin was born Louise Mary Grayson in 1968 in British Hong Kong to a Major in the Irish Guards of the British Army. She"
"West End, further starring in the revival the following year. He then toured with the production intermittently from 1994-1996. In April 2005 he was the guest presenter on the BBC comedy news show ""Have I Got News for You"" and over the next decade guested on many other television shows as a speaker and an entertainer including as Father Gorman in ""Marple: The Pale Horse"" and ""Celebrity Mastermind"" in December 2007. ""Just a Minute"" transferred to television in 2012 for a ten-part early-evening series to celebrate its 45th anniversary, with Parsons and regular panellist Paul Merton. Parsons wrote an autobiography"
"Richard Osman Richard Thomas Osman (born 28 November 1970) is an English television presenter, producer, comedian and director, best known for being the creator and co-presenter of the BBC One television quiz show ""Pointless"". He also presents the BBC Two quiz shows ""Two Tribes"" and ""Richard Osman's House of Games,"" and is a team captain on the comedy panel shows ""Insert Name Here"" and ""The Fake News Show"". Osman has gained recognition for his appearances on a wide variety of British panel shows. Osman worked at Hat Trick Productions before becoming creative director of the television production company Endemol UK,"
"Room 101, saying that he would never accept an honour himself. In 2013, he clarified this position, stating that he had ""no fundamental objection to the honours system"" and that he selected the honours system for Room 101, as he could ""tell funny stories about it"". Brandreth has presented programmes on London's LBC radio at various times since 1973, such as ""Star Quality"". He frequently appears on BBC Radio 4's comedy panel game ""Just a Minute"". He has appeared on several episodes of Radio 4's political programme ""The Westminster Hour"", explaining his thoughts on how to make the most of"
"use of the panel game format, including the long-running ""Just a Minute"" (from 1967 to date) and ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"" (from 1972), and The News Quiz (from 1977), which often broadcast a dozen of so episodes a year, normally split over two series broadcast at different points in the year. The success of the panel show format has in turn has influenced TV series like ""Have I Got News for You"" (from 1990), ""They Think It's All Over"" (from 1995) and Mock the Week (from 2005). . BBC Radio has continued to be a breeding ground for"
"consultancy Waterman Group Plc. By 2006 he had 14 godchildren but he has no children of his own. Andrew Neil Andrew Ferguson Neil (born 21 May 1949) is a British journalist and broadcaster. As of 2018 Neil presents live political programmes ""This Week"" on BBC One and ""Politics Live"" on BBC Two. He was the editor of ""The Sunday Times"" for 11 years. Neil is the former chief executive and editor-in-chief of the Press Holdings group. He is the current chairman of Press Holdings Media Group, whose titles include ""The Spectator"", and the ITP Media Group. Neil was born in"
"the couple's daughter in May 2015. Victoria Coren Mitchell Victoria Elizabeth Coren Mitchell (; 18 August 1972) is an English writer, presenter and professional poker player. Coren Mitchell writes weekly columns for ""The Observer"" and has hosted the BBC television quiz show ""Only Connect"" since 2008. Victoria Elizabeth Coren was born in Hammersmith, west London, and grew up in Cricklewood, north London, the only daughter of the humourist and journalist Alan Coren and his wife Anne Kasriel. Her brother is the journalist Giles Coren. She is related to the Canadian journalist Michael Coren. She attended independent girls' schools between the"