Just a Minute usually by mistake or for laughs. The game rewards those who make entertaining challenges, even if they do not speak for very long. If successful, last-second challenges can be especially rewarding, as they allow one to speak for a short time but earn two points—one for the challenge and one for being the last speaker. The game is then scored and a winner declared, but the attraction of the show lies less in the contest than in the humour and banter among participants and the chairman. Nicholas Parsons has chaired the show since its inception. On nine occasions he has
Sheila Hancock "Have I Got News for You". On radio, she has been a semi-regular contestant on the BBC Radio 4 panel game "Just a Minute" since 1967. From 2007 to 2012 Hancock was Chancellor of the University of Portsmouth. From March to May 2010, she appeared as a judge on the BBC show "Over the Rainbow", along with Charlotte Church, Andrew Lloyd Webber and John Partridge. Hancock regularly works in radio and appeared in the BBC Radio Four series "North by Northamptonshire" in 2011, alongside Geoffrey Palmer. Hancock was the subject of "This Is Your Life" in 1977 when she was