Just a Minute 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
Blythe Duff from the novel of the same name by Andrew O'Hagan. She has won Best Female Performance twice at the Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland: in 2013 for her portrayal of Fay Black in Rona Munro's prison drama 'Iron'; and in 2014 for the titular role in David Harrower's 'Ciara'. Duff has also appeared on radio, including the BBC Radio 4 comedy panel game, "Just a Minute". On the concert platform she has narrated with numerous orchestras; the RSNO, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Scottish Opera Orchestra. She has recorded Hansel and Gretel by Savourna Stevenson with the Scottish