Just a Minute of the show, all created by Messiter, include a 1952 version on South African radio, and a television version on the DuMont network in the United States. The pilot for the show was recorded in 1967, featuring Clement Freud, Derek Nimmo, Beryl Reid and Wilma Ewart as panellists. The chairman was originally planned to be Jimmy Edwards but he was unavailable on Sundays, the proposed recording dates, and was replaced by Nicholas Parsons who was originally supposed to be a panel member. Parsons did not want the job and only reluctantly took it, just for the pilot episode. After the
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