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
Russell Kane for MTV (UK and Ireland). In August 2011 he appeared for the first time on the BBC Radio Four comedy panel game Just a Minute, and won. His debut novel, "The Humorist", was published by Simon & Schuster in April 2012. In 2012, he co-presented "Britain Unzipped" with Greg James on BBC Three, which was renamed "Unzipped" for series 2. He also presents Live at the Electric on Thursdays on BBC Three which has had 2 series. The 3rd series started broadcasting on 10 January 2014. His newest chat show with Greg James, Staying In, premiered in September 2013. He