Which long-running Radio 4 panel game was created by Ian Messiter?
"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"
"musical mistakes man at the piano. The theme music for the series was composed by John Baker at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Many a Slip (radio series) Many a Slip was a BBC Radio 4 panel game created by Ian Messiter that ran from 1964 to 1979. It was chaired by Roy Plomley, with a musical mistakes round supplied by Steve Race. The title of the show is a reference to the English proverb ""There's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip"". The BBC received requests from school teachers and lecturers for transcripts of Ian Messiter's pieces as"
"Many a Slip (radio series) Many a Slip was a BBC Radio 4 panel game created by Ian Messiter that ran from 1964 to 1979. It was chaired by Roy Plomley, with a musical mistakes round supplied by Steve Race. The title of the show is a reference to the English proverb ""There's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip"". The BBC received requests from school teachers and lecturers for transcripts of Ian Messiter's pieces as a fun way of teaching educational subjects to pupils. For the first couple of series, the contestants were Isobel Barnett and Eleanor"
"Puzzle Panel Puzzle Panel was a light-hearted, though cerebral BBC Radio 4 panel game that was broadcast between 1998 and 2005. An additional series was broadcast over the winter-spring of 2011, and a further series was broadcast during the same period in 2012. It has been written and presented by puzzle columnist for ""The Guardian"", Chris Maslanka. In each half-hour programme, the panellists brought along one puzzle with which to test the mental mettle of the other two panellists and their host. Essentially, it was just for fun and no points were scored. Another puzzle, the Panel Beater, was contributed"
"UK. Since 1992, he has published and edited ""The Quote... Unquote Newsletter"", a quarterly journal (now distributed electronically) and devoted to the origins and use of well-known quotations, phrases and sayings. In 2011 he published his autobiography, ""My Radio Times"". Reference books he has written include the ""Cassell’s Movie Quotations"", ""Cassell’s Humorous Quotations"", ""A Word In Your Shell-Like "" and ""Brewer's Famous Quotations"". He has been acclaimed as a ""pioneering quotation scholar"". Nigel Rees Nigel Rees (born 5 June 1944 near Liverpool) is an English writer and broadcaster, best known for devising and hosting the long-running Radio 4 panel game"
"series, a couple of listeners were invited to join the panel. Programme five's guest, Stephen Buxton, was a regular Panel Beater contributor, and programme six's guest, Jenny Murray, was a member of the public who regularly answered the Listener's Puzzle correctly. The original producer was Harry Parker. Clare Csonka produced a few series, and the 2005 series was produced by Harry Parker once more. Puzzle Panel Puzzle Panel was a light-hearted, though cerebral BBC Radio 4 panel game that was broadcast between 1998 and 2005. An additional series was broadcast over the winter-spring of 2011, and a further series was"
"Willie Rushton, one of the show's longest-serving panelists, was installed at the station in 2002. At Christmas 1984, Radio 4 broadcast a special programme, ""Everyman's Guide to Mornington Crescent"", a ""two-part documentary"" on the history of the game and its rules, presented by Raymond Baxter. At the end of part one (concentrating on the history), it was announced that part two (about the rules) had been postponed due to ""scheduling difficulties"". Another documentary was broadcast on Christmas Eve 2005. It was named ""In Search of Mornington Crescent"", and narrated by Andrew Marr. This has since also been released on a"
"Countdown (game show) Countdown is a British game show involving word and number puzzles. It is produced by ITV Studios and broadcast on Channel 4. It is currently presented by Nick Hewer, assisted by Rachel Riley, with regular lexicographer Susie Dent. It was the first programme to be aired on Channel 4, and 77 series have been broadcast since its debut on 2 November 1982. With over 6,500 episodes, ""Countdown"" is one of the longest-running game shows in the world, along with the original French version, ""Des chiffres et des lettres"" (Numbers & Letters), which has been running on French"
"BBC Audiobook CD. Two books of rules and history have been published, ""The Little Book of Mornington Crescent"" (2001; ), by Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Humphrey Lyttelton, and ""Stovold's Mornington Crescent Almanac"" (2001; ), by Graeme Garden. A board game (of sorts) variant has been developed by web developer Kevan Davis and its rules are available on his website. Mornington Crescent (game) Mornington Crescent is a game featured in the BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"" (ISIHAC), a series which satirises panel games. The game consists of each panellist in turn"
"23 December 2014. It consisted of two hour-long episodes, and Basden acted in it as well, reprising the role of Noel. In 2010 his play ""Party"" was performed, about a group of rather childish university students holding a meeting to found their own political party. ""The Guardian"" gave it a positive review calling it ""an idiosyncratic and highly enjoyable piece performed beautifully by a crack cast of upcoming comics""; they praised the quality of the jokes, while noting that the satire was light and subtle. It was adapted into a Radio 4 sitcom, broadcast for three series from 2010 to"
"Sound Charades Sound Charades is a variant of charades played on BBC Radio 4's ""antidote to panel games"", ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"". As with some other ""ISIHAC"" games, such as ""Celebrity What's My Line?"", the game has been created by taking an existing one and removing the central concept. As the late chairman Humphrey Lyttelton put it: ""In the original, the players were not allowed to speak, resulting in much hilarity. Our version differs subtly in two ways."" The format of the game is largely similar to the original. One team is given the name of a book,"
"World Records"" for the most series of a TV game show broadcast. Countdown (game show) Countdown is a British game show involving word and number puzzles. It is produced by ITV Studios and broadcast on Channel 4. It is currently presented by Nick Hewer, assisted by Rachel Riley, with regular lexicographer Susie Dent. It was the first programme to be aired on Channel 4, and 77 series have been broadcast since its debut on 2 November 1982. With over 6,500 episodes, ""Countdown"" is one of the longest-running game shows in the world, along with the original French version, ""Des chiffres"
"with guest speakers Paul Merton, Josie Lawrence, Sara Pascoe and Tony Hawks. Each programme features four panellists, with the exception of six shows in 1968 and another at the end of the 1970–1971 season when there were only three. Ian Messiter, the show's creator, set the subjects for every show until his death in 1999. Until 1989 he also 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 assistant. There have been five regular"
"Mornington Crescent (game) Mornington Crescent is a game featured in the BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"" (ISIHAC), a series which satirises panel games. The game consists of each panellist in turn announcing a landmark or street, most often a tube station on the London Underground system. The aim is to be the first to announce ""Mornington Crescent"", a station on the Northern line. Interspersed with the turns is humorous discussion amongst the panellists and host regarding the rules and legality of each move, as well as the strategy the panellists are using. Mornington"
"Just a Minute 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 hesitation, repetition 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"
"revived ""Whose Line Is It Anyway?"", which features improv sketches. In 2014, ""Celebrity Name Game"" with Craig Ferguson premiered in syndication, in which players and celebrities try to get each other to guess famous names. In 2015, ABC announced primetime revivals for ""Match Game"" and ""To Tell The Truth."" Panel shows are particularly popular in the United Kingdom, where they've found continued success since the BBC adapted its first radio panel shows from classic parlor games. Perhaps the earliest UK panel show is the BBC radio adaptation of ""Twenty Questions"", which debuted on 28 February 1947. Panel shows can have"
"his days at Sherborne School who, upon seeing the young Messiter daydreaming in a class, instructed him to repeat everything he had said in the previous minute without hesitation or repetition. To this, Messiter added a rule disallowing players from deviating from the subject, as well as a scoring system based on panellists' challenges. The format was first used in ""One Minute Please"", chaired by Roy Plomley, broadcast on BBC radio between 1951 and 1957. Whilst the fundamental rules were the same, the game was played in two teams of three rather than with four individual contestants. Other early incarnations"
"pilot on 19 October 2006, with the first actual series broadcast on 23 April 2007. Its twentieth series started broadcasting in April 2018. The concept is a mirror image of the radio panel game ""Many a Slip"", devised by Ian Messiter, which ended in 1979, in which contestants do the opposite – spot errors hidden in narrations of true facts. As David Mitchell says at the start of the programme, ""the rules are very simple"". The panel is made up of four players. In the game each of the panellists is given a subject on which they give a short"
"adults is consistently highest in the ratings. BBC Radio 4, a varied talk station, is noted for its news, current affairs, drama and comedy output as well as ""The Archers"", its long running soap opera, and other unique programmes, including ""Desert Island Discs"" (1942–present), an interview programme in which a famous guest (called a ""castaway"") chooses eight pieces of music, a book and a luxury item that they would take with them to a desert island. Currently presented by Kirsty Young, it is the longest running music radio programme in British history. The idea for a Christmas message was conceived"
"Was It Something I Said? (TV series) Was It Something I Said? is a British comedy panel game show that was broadcast on Channel 4, presented by David Mitchell and featuring team captains Richard Ayoade and Micky Flanagan. Celebrity guest narrators appeared in each episode and, for the first series, narrators included David Harewood, Phil Daniels, Charles Dance and Mariella Frostrup. The show was spun off from the Quotables website, commissioned by Adam Gee at Channel 4 in collaboration with the Arts Council England in 2011. The programme included a play-along second screen game based entirely on Twitter. The panel"
"world, but it is enjoyable. It is a way of merrily passing away half-an-hour."" He commented on how the show managed to be successful in the same slot as other Radio 4 panel games ""Just a Minute"" and ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"" (""ISIHAC""), although he mentioned there was a connection between ""ISIHAC"" and ""The Unbelievable Truth"" as the latter is created by the producer and one of the regular panellists from ""ISIHAC"". Dunn also referred to the lack of input from Mitchell despite him being well known for good performances on other panel games, saying: ""This sadly means"
"in the week following the standard Radio 4 broadcast. This version was also made available as a podcast. The News Quiz The News Quiz is a British topical panel game broadcast on BBC Radio 4. ""The News Quiz"" was first broadcast in 1977 with Barry Norman as chairman. Subsequently, it was chaired by Simon Hoggart, Barry Took (until 1995), and then again by Simon Hoggart until March 2006. Hoggart was replaced by Sandi Toksvig in September 2006, who in turn was replaced by Miles Jupp in September 2015. The series was created by John Lloyd based on an idea from"
"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."" Throughout its half-century history, the show has, in addition to its popularity in the UK, developed an international following through its broadcast on the BBC World Service and, more recently, on the internet. 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 master from"
"Parlamentet Parlamentet (Swedish for ""The Parliament"") is a satirical panel gameshow on TV4, which parodies Swedish political debate. It was first broadcast in 1999 and is currently in its 23rd series. The current presenter is Anders S. Nilsson, who has hosted the show since 2004. Current team members include Babben Larsson, Robin Paulsson, Johan Rheborg and Johan Glans. Kodjo Akolor has also been featured. The program is a Swedish version of the short-run British show If I Ruled the World. The comedians are divided into two teams (""parties""), red and blue, representing traditional political colours. The show has had many"
"Quote... Unquote Quote ... Unquote is a panel game broadcast on BBC Radio 4 based on quotations. Every episode since the beginning of the series on 4 January 1976 has been chaired by its deviser, Nigel Rees. The programme broadcast its 54th series in November/December 2018. The main part of the programme consists of a non-competitive quiz where the chairman asks each of the four panellists in turn to identify where a certain quotation, phrase or saying comes from. In between these rounds, the panellists are asked to share some of their favourite quotations on a specified theme. Other parts"
"the mind rather than crush the spirit still exist."" On 13 September 2016, ""The Museum of Curiosity"" won the Rose d'Or in the radio talk show category. The Museum of Curiosity The Museum of Curiosity, formerly titled The Professor of Curiosity, is a comedy panel game on BBC Radio 4 that was first broadcast on 20 February 2008. It is hosted by John Lloyd (Professor of Ignorance at the University of Buckingham, and later at Southampton Solent University). He acts as the head of the (fictional) titular museum, while a panel of three guests – typically a comedian, an author"
"such as ""Midweek"", ""Desert Island Discs"" and ""Loose Ends"", which occupy the slot on other days."" According to ""The Independent"", ""rows, however innocuous some of them seemed at the time, have become a trademark under Bragg: among the most notable have been Ben Elton vs Brenda Maddox, Rosie Boycott and Bragg vs novelist Kathy Lette, Armistead Maupin vs Libby Purves, and Bragg himself vs (separately) Joan Smith, Michael Dobbs, William Cash, Tony Parsons and Jean Aitchison. The programme's prominence in Radio 4's schedule meant that Bragg's elevation to the House of Lords as a life peer necessitated Bragg's relinquishing of"
"been shown in some episodes that the gamble is compulsory, even if the winner has amassed a fortune of more than 99p in the game. This is the second version of the panel game that was previously transmitted by BBC Radio 4 in 1998 as ""King Stupid"". It was then hosted by William Vandyck and featured much the same line-up of comedians and satirists. The contestants were awarded points instead of pence. Series of the show continue to be repeated on BBC Radio 4 Extra. The show's theme is an excerpt from Alexander Borodin's opera ""Prince Igor"". The show ends"
"""The Forgotten Toys"" and ""Asterix and the Big Fight"". In 1978, BBC Radio 4 broadcast ""The Revenge"", a ground-breaking 30-minute play totally without dialogue (an experiment in binaural stereo recording), written and performed by Sachs, dismissed by playwright Jonathan Raban as a ""wordless sequence of noises"" and ""a well-puffed curiosity"". The play has subsequently been repeated a number of times on BBC Radio 4 Extra. Other roles for radio have included G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown, Dr. John Watson in four series of original Sherlock Holmes stories for BBC Radio 4, Jeeves in ""The Code of the Woosters"", Edmond Dantès"
"group The Chaser, including Craig Reucassel, Andrew Hansen and Julian Morrow, have produced a TV series based on the British series. General Specific The Unbelievable Truth (radio show) The Unbelievable Truth is a BBC radio comedy panel game made by Random Entertainment, devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith. It is very similar to the occasional ""I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue"" game ""Lies, All Lies"", which was first played in 1985. The game is chaired by David Mitchell and is described in the programme's introduction as ""the panel game built on truth and lies."" The object of the game"
"a raging 500-foot waterfall, slept in a First World War trench and abseiled down a towering cliff face. In June 2015 Fry was the guest on BBC Radio 4's ""Desert Island Discs"". His favourite piece was the String Quartet No. 14 by Beethoven. His book choice was ""Four Quartets"" by T. S. Eliot and his luxury item was ""canvasses, easels, brushes, an instruction manual"". In 2003, Fry began hosting ""QI"" (Quite Interesting), a comedy panel game television quiz show. ""QI"" was created and co-produced by John Lloyd, and features permanent panellist Alan Davies. ""QI"" has the highest viewing figures for"
"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"
"One Song to the Tune of Another ""One Song to the Tune of Another"" was the first game played on the BBC Radio 4 comedy panel game ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"" and is still almost always played every other episode. It consists of panellists singing the lyrics of one song to the tune of another song, accompanied on the piano. The four original panellists were adept at this game, and each took an individual turn. Since the death of Willie Rushton guest panellists have appeared, and the two team members occasionally sing together, presumably to compensate for the"