Just a Minute 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
Panel show decades-long runs in the UK: "Twenty Questions" lasted until 1976, while "Just a Minute" has remained on the air with the same host since 1967. Other long-running games on radio include "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" since 1972, "The News Quiz" since 1977, "My Word!" from 1956 to 1988, and "My Music" from 1967 to 1994. The British version of "What's My Line?" may have been the first television panel show in the UK, with an original run from 1951 to 1963 and several remakes in later years. The word game "Call My Bluff" aired from 1965 to 2005,