This new series of Radio Collection CDs selects some of the best archive episodes from Just a Minute's past. Each volume, specially presented by Nicholas Parsons, contains an episode each from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. These releases are packed with some of the most hilarious moments in the series, and feature little-heard comedy turns by much-cherished celebrities.
Since 1967 Nicholas Parsons has chaired the evergreen BBC Radio 4 comedy quiz game, in which contestants must speak for one minute on a given subject without hesitation, repetition or deviation (in other words straying from the subject). The programme was made popular by the likes of regular panellists Clement Freud, Peter Jones, Derek Nimmo and, of course, Kenneth Williams, whose outraged outbursts and extreme insults are legendary.
Today, although many of the original regulars are no longer alive, the series continues to thrive, still under the stewardship of Nicholas Parsons and with the contributions of many of our brightest comedy stars.
Volume 1 of Just a Classic Minute features such well-loved guest players as Peter Cook, Barry Took, Victoria Wood, Wendy Richard and Stephen Fry, alongside regulars including Kenneth Williams, Clement Freud, Derek Nimmo, Peter Jones and Paul Merton.
The episodes were first broadcast on 28/10/68, 29/5/79, 24/9/83, 11/01/92.