Just a Minute unit of time). The recording used for the theme is of David Haines. In 2018, Nicholas Parsons was unable to attend the recording of two editions of the programme as he had the flu. This broke his uninterrupted run of fifty years as a performer on the programme. The episodes were recorded on 1 April 2018 with Gyles Brandreth standing in for Parsons and were broadcast on 4 and 11 June 2018. The panellists are invited, in rotation, to speak for one minute on a given subject (which they are normally not informed of in advance), without "hesitation, repetition or
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