Just a Minute 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
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