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<tr><td width="416" colspan="3"><img height="10" alt="" src="/web/20090212061133im_/http://bbc.co.uk/f/t.gif" width="1" border="0"/></td> </tr> <tr><td width="6"><img src="/web/20090212061133im_/http://bbc.co.uk/f/t.gif" width="1" height="1" alt="" border="0"/></td> <td class="promo-1-bg-rm" valign="top" width="404"><img src="/web/20090212061133im_/http://bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/media/nicholas_parsons247x165.jpg" align="right" width="247" height="165" alt="Just a Minute" border="0"/><div class="promo-2-pad-rm"><font size="2">Nicholas Parsons hosts the devious panel game. Remember the rules: no hesitation, repetition or deviation.<div align="center"></div><img src="/web/20090212061133im_/http://bbc.co.uk/f/t.gif" width="6" height="15" alt="" border="0"/></font></div></td> <td width="6"><img src="/web/20090212061133im_/http://bbc.co.uk/f/t.gif" width="6" height="1" alt="" border="0"/></td> </tr> <tr><td width="416" colspan="3"><img height="5" alt="" src="/web/20090212061133im_/http://bbc.co.uk/f/t.gif" width="1" border="0"/></td> </tr> <tr><td width="416" colspan="3"><img height="6" alt="" src="/web/20090212061133im_/http://bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/media/dotted_line.gif" width="416" border="0"/></td> </tr> <tr><td width="416" colspan="3"><div class="promo-3-pad-rm"><font size="2">For more information and details on how to get tickets please visit the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090212061133/http://www.bbc.co.uk/tickets/" title="BBC Ticket Website">BBC ticket wesite </a></font></div></td> </tr> <tr><td width="416" colspan="3"><img height="5" alt="" src="/web/20090212061133im_/http://bbc.co.uk/f/t.gif" width="1" border="0"/></td> </tr> <tr><td width="416" colspan="3"><img height="6" alt="" src="/web/20090212061133im_/http://bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/media/dotted_line.gif" width="416" border="0"/></td> </tr> <tr><td width="416" colspan="3"><div class="promo-3-pad-rm"><font size="2"><strong>Just a Minute</strong> was devised by the late Ian Messiter who came up with the idea on the top of a number 13 bus.  He suddenly remembered being given the horrible task of speaking for one minute without hesitation or deviation by one of his school masters. <br/> <br/> Producer David Hatch put the pilot show before a BBC development board who were sceptical that the series would run for more than six programmes. <br/> <br/> Thirty-five years later, Chairman Nicholas Parsons continues to attempt - and mostly succeed - in keeping control over a roll-call of celebrity contenders attempting to talk on a subject for sixty seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation. <br/> </font></div></td> </tr> <tr><td width="416" colspan="3"><div class="promo-3-pad-rm"><ol></ol></div></td> </tr> <tr><td width="416" colspan="3"><img height="10" alt="" src="/web/20090212061133im_/http://bbc.co.uk/f/t.gif" width="1" border="0"/></td> </tr> <tr><td width="6"><img height="1" alt="" src="/web/20090212061133im_/http://bbc.co.uk/f/t.gif" width="6" border="0"/></td> <td class="tickets-subbanner-bg-rm" valign="top" width="404"><div class="subbanner-pad-rm"><font class="subbanner-font-rm" size="2"><b>The panellists</b></font></div></td> <td width="6"><img height="1" alt="" src="/web/20090212061133im_/http://bbc.co.uk/f/t.gif" width="6" border="0"/></td> </tr> <tr><td width="6"><img height="1" alt="" src="/web/20090212061133im_/http://bbc.co.uk/f/t.gif" width="6" border="0"/></td> <td class="tickets-bg-rm" valign="top" width="404"><div class="tickets-pad-rm"><font size="2">Present panellists include Paul Merton, Shappi Khorsandi, Graham Norton, Charles Collingwood, Clement Freud, Helen Lederer, Julian Clary, Josie Long, Liza Tarbuck, Sue Perkins, Gyles Brandreth, Jack Dee, Josie Lawrence, Tony Hawks, Chris Neill and Justin Moorhouse.<br/> <br/> Former contestants, now sadly missed include Linda Smith, Kenneth Williams, Derek Nimmo and Peter Jones, but do you remember these panellists? Aimi MacDonald, Alfred Marks, Liz Frazer, Willie Rushton, Warren Mitchell, Barbara Castle, Prunella Scales, Fenella Fielding, Beryl Reid, Magnus Pyke, Thora Hird, Pam Ayres, Elaine Stritch, Bernard Cribbins and Patrick Moore. 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