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
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