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
Richard Vranch their cartoons published in "Maxim", "Punch", and "The Spectator". He presented the children's shows "Let's Pretend" on ITV and "Jackanory" on BBC One, and was a contestant on a charity special of "The Weakest Link" in 2005. He guested on BBC Radio 4's long-running panel game "Just a Minute" in 1999. In 2002 he was commissioned by Tamasha Theatre (East is East) as a writer for their show "Ryman and the Sheik" and worked for a few years as an Artistic Associate of the company. Vranch had a previous career as a research physicist, and has appeared on the panel