Welcome to Just a Minute! - A Celebration of Britain's Best-Loved Radio Comedy (Paperback, Main)

Includes contributions from Graham Norton, Sue Perkins, Jenny Eclair and Gyles Brandreth. As its nine hundredth episode approaches, Just a Minute has consistently entertained BBC Radio 4 listeners since its first broadcast in December 1967. Inspired by a punishment handed out at school, the show's creator Ian Messiter devised a deceptively simple and versatile set of rules that has allowed the game to adapt and thrive as each new era of comedy entertainers emerges. Over forty-seven consecutive years, fans have laughed along with Kenneth Williams' outrageously funny 'battles' with Sheila Hancock, Paul Merton's imaginative flights of fancy, Clement Freud's acerbic wit, Julian Clary's flagrant innuendos, Graham Norton's celebrity 'gossip', Jenny Eclair's brutal honesty, Gyles Brandreth's extravagant monologues and Sue Perkins' infectious enthusiasm to name only a handful of the more than two hundred star entertainers who have braved the Just a Minute panel. In this official celebration, chairman Nicholas Parsons, the only person to have appeared in every programme, recalls the very best, occasionally awkward and often hilarious, moments from the last six decades. Magical minutes, verbal dexterity, sharp one-liners and witty challenges can all be marvelled at once again as Nicholas tells the Just a Minute story from its inauspicious pilot episode, through television and stage versions, and on to the present day, without hesitation, repetition or deviation...

General

Imprint:	Canongate Books Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2015
Authors:	Nicholas Parsons
Contributors:	Gyles Brandreth • Graham Norton • Sue Perkins • Jenny Eclair
Dimensions:	198 x 128 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	456
Edition:	Main
ISBN-13:	978-1-78211-249-5
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Radio Books > Sport & Leisure > Humour > General
LSN:	1-78211-249-9
Barcode:	9781782112495

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