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
Just a Minute entitled "Just A Minute 2" followed in 1996. "Just A Minute 3" in 1999 saw the start of regular annual releases featuring 4 of the best episodes from the previous year. After "Just A Minute 8" in 2004, the following year's release was titled "Just A Minute: The Best Of 2005" and an end-of-year collection has been released every year since with "Just A Minute: The Best Of 2017" due for release on 2 November. In 2004, the BBC began a separate annual series of double CD releases collecting older episodes covering the shows first 30 years entitled "Just A