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 series also made available on Compact Disc. "Just A Minute: Series 79" is due for release on 7 December 2017. In 2011, five double CDs were released with each volume focusing on a "Classic" selection of each of the main regular panellists (eg. "Just A Minute: Classic Kenneth Williams", "Just A Minute: Classic Paul Merton", etc.) The five volumes were also available as a box set entitled "Just A Minute: The Classic Collection" along with a bonus CD. The "Classic Clement Freud" CD and audio download was withdrawn from sites such as Amazon and iTunes following the posthumous revelations about