Just A Minute

[UnquietDad]

I just wanted to use this lovely new section to say - isn't it great that Just A Minute is still going, and still with Nicholas Parsons too?

There's a good site about it here

LOVE IT SO MUCH!

don't catch it often enough.

Since my childhood the definition of "deviation" has become somewhat broader.

One of the best things on Radio 4! Love it!

I think InTheseShoes was speaking as the whistle went and gains the extra point.

i adore this programme. Anyone else feel they would be brilliant at it?

lol at deviation. (think you hesistated a tad there UD..)

Does anyone remember Willie Rushton singing "My Old Man's a Dustman" to the tune of "Girl From Ipanema"? Priceless!

That was on "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue", but yes, it was still funny!

Oops! Yes of course
I love Paul Merton's cheekiness on JAM - is he still a regular? Haven't heard it in ages

UnquietDad you are same age as me lol.

Both are programmes I remember from my childhood. My parents always had Radio 3 or Radio 4 on. They didn't approve of anything else.

Bzzzzzz...deviation. UD started to talk about Radio 3 when this is clearly a thread about a radio 4 programme

Sue Perkins was on JAM today - love her !

Oh yes it's wonderful. (As is most of R4)

Clips I've heard of Kenneth Williams doing JAM are classics.

How can you all be so undiscriminating? JAM stinks to high heaven. It's only a tiny iota less hideous than Quote Unquote, which, to steal a phrase from another thread about R4's 1830 offerings, makes me want to slam a door on my cock.

Oh...ok then..Sidles off.

Bluestocking . Quote Unquote is offensively smug, but JAM is very funny!

Oh no I'm with Bluestocking, I hate JAM. It would be OK if it were just one round in another show, like I'm Sorry I haven't a Clue but as a stand alone half hour show I just find it really annoying. Yes bits of it are funny but by that stage I've turned the radio off.

Not only do I love JAM, I actually get a real kick out of Quote Unquote, admittedly in a smug, Eng Lit student type way

Oh, I should never have started thinking about QU - "devised and presented by Nigel Rees" - who the fucking fuck cares who devised it? And that vile little line that poor old Knickerless always has to say about "this marvellous game, cre-ated by Ian Messiter" - and do you remember poor old Janet Staplehurst, who "blew her whistle for us so delicately"?
owwww!!