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 Classic Minute: Volume 1". Each episode had a newly-recorded introduction by Parsons (for later volumes, Parson and Merton in discussion). The first four volumes were also released in a box set entitled "Just A Classic Minute: 40th Anniversary Collection" in 2007. The series finished in 2010 with the release of "Just A Classic Minute: Volume 7". In 2010, "Just A Minute: Series 56" became the first series to be made available in its entirety for purchase via digital download. This continued up to "Just A Minute: Series 67". The pattern resumed for "Just A Minute: Series 71" onwards, with complete