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WELCOME TO JUST A MINUTE!

starring KENNETH WILLIAMS, CLEMENT FREUD, PETER JONES and LORRAINE CHASE, chaired by NICHOLAS PARSONS (Radio, 18 December 1979)


Note: This was transcribed by Vicki Walker. Thank you Vicki! :-) Lorraine Chase's only appearance.


THEME MUSIC

ANNOUNCER: We present Kenneth Williams, Peter Jones, Clement Freud and Lorraine Chase in Just a Minute. And as the Minute Waltz fades away, here to tell you about it is our chairman, Nicholas Parsons.

NICHOLAS PARSONS: Thank you! Hello and welcome to Just a Minute. And as you’ve just heard, we welcome ah Lorraine Chase, who’s very courageously come along to do battle against our three regular and witty competitors of the game. So, welcome, Lorraine.

LORRAINE CHASE: I hope I don't regret it! (laughs)

NP: And once again I’m going to ask them all to speak if they can for just a minute on a subject that I will give them and try and do it without hesitation, without repetition and without deviating from the subject on the card. And we’ll begin the show with Kenneth Williams, and the subject, Kenneth, ho ho! A right one for you: Taking a diabolical liberty. Will you tell us something on that subject and do it in 60 seconds starting now.

KENNETH WILLIAMS: Well, surely no more diabolical liberty was ever taken than that which was perpetrated by Napoleon when he left Elba. Because, a, it was certainly diabolical, and the liberty was not one which had any validity, do you see. But oh Ö

BUZZ

NP: Lorraine Chase has challenged.

LC: I can’t understand a word he’s saying! Am I allowed to get me dictionary out?

KW: Well I can't translate it for you!

NP: There are 35 seconds left, Kenneth, for you to continue on the subject, having gained a point for an incorrect challenge, and the subject is taking a diabolical liberty starting now.

KW: One of the interpretations, since I was interrupted in my flow about Napoleon and Elba so I can’t continue with that, is that diabolical liberties are taken when people assume, or shall we say presume, upon the generosity or kindness, albeit unwillingly given of one’s host or patron, as the French always put it...

BUZZ

KW: Ö because they Ö

NP: Uh. Clement Freud has challenged.

CLEMENT FREUD: Repetition of Napoleon and Elba.

NP: Yes, quite.

KW: A bit late in the day, wasn’t it? You didn’t get it off.

LC: I didn’t know you couldn’t say that.

KW: You just did it now to get in on the last few seconds! You know that, don’t you?

LC: You know the awful... I was, I was going to get that. I knew that he said it before...

NP: Actually, it was a very shrewd tactic, ‘cause I spotted it as I have to listen Ö

LC: So did I! So did I!

NP: Yes!

LC: Well, I thought it didn’t matter because he said it on the first half.

NP: No! If he repeats it and you, you’ve interrupted him and he repeats it again, you get in there.

LC: Oh, story of my life.

KW: You didn’t clock it.

LC: Too late.

NP: Anyway, Clement cleverly came in later because now he only has 12 seconds to talk on this subject, he gets a point for a correct challenge and he has the subject, taking a diabolical liberty, starting now.

CF: This is a rot-

BUZZ

NP: Ah, Peter Jones has challenged.

PETER JONES: Hesitation.

NP: Yes, Peter, well done. Peter Jones was taking a diabolical liberty and he got in there, 10 seconds are left, taking a diabolical liberty starting now.

BUZZ

PJ: Diabolical means –

NP: Ah, Lorraine Chase.

LC: Hesitation. That seems to get it every time!

NP: No, he actually hadn’t been going for half a second.

LC: Oh, well I’ll let him off, then.

NP: Well, that’s very, very generous of you, I must say. Taking a diabolical liberty, Peter, starting now.

PJ: Diabolical really means like the devil. So that it’s got to be a really ghastly kind of liberty that he’s taken to qualify for this adjective, diabolical.

WHISTLE

LC: Oh, well done!

NP: So Ian Messiter, who blows the whistle when 60 seconds is up, and whoever is speaking at that moment gains an extra point. It was Peter Jones, and he’s in the lead at the end of the first round. Clement Freud, will you begin the second round? The subject is sponge fingers, starting now.

CF: Sponge fingers are things which people put into trifles, and I’m never quite sure why other than that when custard is poured upon the aforementioned sponge finger, the sponge finger becomes soggy, limpid, bland, yucky and ugly. It is hard to imagine items of greater trivia than sponge fingers, because it is virtually impossible to discourse on that particular subject, even if it is only for another 31 seconds but I will attempt –

BUZZ

NP: Kenneth Williams...

KW: Deviation. He said it’s impossible to discourse and he’s just doing it! So therefore what he says is untrue! Right, that’s deviation, isn’t it?

NP: Not deviating from the subject on the card. Twenty-six seconds left starting now.

CF: Take flour, sugar, milk, eggs, yeast and fingers with which you mix the five ...

BUZZ

NP: Kenneth Williams.

KW: Devia- uh, hesitation.

NP: Yes, there was a definite hesitation. Kenneth, a point, the subject, and 17 seconds to talk on sponge fingers, starting now.

KW: The only time I found them of any use whatsoever is when I dip them into things which are prepared gelatinously with sweet things, pudding, pies...

BUZZ

LC: Oh yes, oh, it’s too late.

NP: Uh, Peter Jones has challenged.

PJ: Repetition of things.

NP: Yes, that is right, Peter. There are seven seconds for you now on sponge fingers starting now.

PJ: Sponge cakes are things you put in trifles. Sponge fingers are used for making other types of dessert when you put the things round Ö

WHISTLE

LC: Oh, you did say things again, that you did, like he did before...

NP: Peter Jones was then speaking as the whistle went, so he gained an extra point for doing so. Peter Jones, it’s your turn to begin. The subject is tongue twisters. Can you tell us something about those in just a minute starting now.

PJ: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper. Now that’s one tongue twister. And I don’t like them because apart from anything else they’re so terribly far-fetched. It’s just ridiculous to imagine someone picking that quantity of pickled pepper, which I’ve...

BUZZ

PJ: ...now repeated of course.

NP: Um, Clement Freud has challenged.

LC: Oh, he did, he did.

NP: Yes, he did tell us why.

CF: Yes.

NP: All right. All right. There are 44 seconds on tongue twisters, Clement, starting now.

CF: So she bought some better butter, put it in her bitter batter, and you can’t really do tongue twisters on this programme because they are incredibly repetitive, even while they have no element of hesitation about them. I particularly admired Mr Peter Jones’ tongue twister because it is one that I can never remember, whereas the ones that I recall Ö

BUZZ

NP: Uh, Kenneth Williams has challenged.

KW: Hesitation.

NP: No!

KW: Well, it was boring, then!

NP: So I agree with you about being boring but he wasn’t actually hesitating. And so he carries on if he can on tongue twisters with 23 seconds left starting now.

CF: I don’t think I can!

BUZZ

NP: And Lorraine Chase has challenged.

LC: I didn’t! I didn’t!

NP: Well done, Lorraine, that was very quick of you. And you have 20 seconds...

LC: I didn’t touch it!

NP: You start now.

LC: Ah well tongue twisters, um well, I’m not really an authority on um things of this nature, of this ilk. But I’ll have a go ‘cause I’ll have a go at most things, well almost most things – but, um, have I done it yet? Tongue twisters are, um, ah, let me –

BUZZ

NP: Kenneth you challenged.

KW: Hesitation!

LC: Oh! Oh!

KW: She’s dreadfully taking all the time!

NP: I know she was. There are five seconds on tongue twisters with you starting now.

KW: This does not occur with someone whose diction is as exquisite as mine. When you say what an unsupersuitable...

WHISTLE

NP: So Kenneth Williams was then speaking as the whistle went. He gained an extra point. And let me give you the score at this particular moment. Ah, Clement Freud and Peter Jones are equal in the lead, one point behind is Kenneth Williams, and two or three behind them is Lorraine Chase.

LC: Oooh.

NP: And Lorraine, it’s your turn to begin. The subject is snuggling. Will you tell us something about snuggling in Just A Minute starting now.

BUZZ

NP: You’ve obviously never snuggled.

LC: No!

NP: Kenneth Williams, you challenged.

KW: Hesitation.

NP: A very definite hesitation, I’m afraid, Lorraine. Couldn’t even get going!

LC: I was dumbstruck.

NP: There are 57 seconds on snuggling with you, Kenneth, starting now.

KW: The reason Lorraine Chase can’t talk about snuggling is because she is, though appearing to be worldly, a naïve creature who’s never been out with boys and got into what we would call a snuggling embrace. She doesn’t do it, she doesn’t know what it means, and therefore ...

BUZZ

KW: ...is totally unable...

NP: Peter Jones has challenged.

KW: ... to discuss it.

PJ: Well, it’s absolute rubbish, of course.

NP: Because you know from personal experience, do you?

PJ: No, I wish I did! But, uh, he repeated doesn’t, and uh I thought it was altogether embarrassing. It was prying into somebody’s personal life.

LC: Aw.

PJ: And it has no business on this program.

NP: What is your challenge, Peter?

PJ: Uh, repetition of doesn’t!

NP: Peter, you have the subject and there are 35 seconds left on snuggling, starting now.

PJ: Snuggling is comparatively innocent, really. It’s something that one can do in a sleeping bag if you have somebody else to join you and ah no one is likely to really object to it except possibly one’s wife or uh, some er...

BUZZ

NP: Kenneth Williams has challenged.

KW: Hesitation. Or uh.

NP: Yes, I mean some wives enjoy a good snuggle. Twenty seconds are left on snuggling with you, Kenneth, starting now.

KW: The best thing to do is get into the warmth of woollen blankets, wrap them around yourself and feel so warm and satisfied...

BUZZ

NP: And, um, Lorraine Chase has challenged.

LC: Yes, he was, um, hesitating. Definitely. It was very un... unheardible. Edible. No, what is it?

PJ: Inaudible.

LC: Inaudible.

PJ: Inaudible. Yes, it was. It was, really.

CF: It wasn’t very edible, either. Totally inedible!

LC: Oh!

NP: I agree with you, Lorraine. It was all those things!

LC: It was, wasn’t it?

NP: Inedible, inaudible and, umÖ

LC: Things of this nature.

CF: I think she should have three points!

PJ: Yes. And I do think she should have an opportunity of speaking on snuggling, otherwise the whole world is going to think she’s frigid! Because after all that antipropaganda that Kenneth put out, I mean, it’s just shocking.

NP: Dried up?

PJ: Could ruin her image altogether!

NP: Lorraine, gather your wits and talk if you can for eight seconds on snuggling starting now.

LC: Well, my favorite thing to snuggle into is a nice fur coat. Oh it’s lovely, lovely. I’d love to hhve a nice fur coat to snuggle into. Oh –

WHISTLE

LC: Oh, a point, a point, a point, yes.

NP: Well, much to everyone’s delight, Lorraine Chase did keep going for eight seconds, and she repeated the same words about eight times Ö

LC: Oh, did I?


NP: She got a point for speaking when the whistle went, which is so important. She’s still, alas, in fourth place but, um, she’s doing very well. Kenneth, your turn to begin. The subject is Saint George. Will you tell us something about him in just a minute starting now.

KW: Great doubt has been thrown on the validity of his sainthood, when Rome pronounced that no records provide for any knowing canonisation of this particular man. He was confused by Gibbon with George of Capedocia, and that was a very foolish thing for him to have done because the tomb at Lida, where they say he is interred, is probably nothing to do with the Saint George of the Eastern Church, and they all assumed by law that it was. But if you trip --

BUZZ

NP: Peter Jones has challenged.

PJ: Repetition of assume.

NP: Yes. They assumed something a bit earlier on in your dissertation.

CF: It’s also repetition of Saint George because it wasn’t the Saint George he was talking about earlier.

NP: But that’s beside... it’s deviation from the subject on the card, which is Saint George.

LC: Oh, that’s very clever.

NP: Peter Jones, the subject is Saint George. There are 31 seconds left starting now.

PJ: Well, he’s usually identified with this character who went out and defeated the dragon which frightened everybody else. And he gave his name to a number of pubs. Apart from anything else, the patron saint of the country, and these, uh...

BUZZ

NP: Kenneth Williams.

KW: Er. Hesitation.

NP: Yes. Kenneth, you have the subject back of Saint George, and there are 17 seconds left starting now.

KW: What Mr Jones in his lamentable ignorance failed to tell you is that he is the patron saint of Portugal. Now why they should have chosen him, I can’t imagine.

BUZZ

NP: Uh, Peter Jones has challenged.

PJ: I think that’s deviation. He’s telling the audience what he says I failed to tell them, which is not the point.

KW: That’s right.

PJ: He’s supposed to be telling them what he wants to tell them, not what I failed to tell them.

NP: He talked about your lamentable ignorance, which is deviating from the subject of Saint George.

PJ: Yes, well, my lamentable ignorance is fairly well known now. I’ve been parading it over the air for years! But I don’t want him to do it for me!

NP: Yes, and it’s still got nothing to do with Saint George. So you have the subject back, Peter...

PJ: Thank you very much.

NP: And there are eight seconds left starting now.

PJ: Saint George for England. Saint Pancras for Scotland. That is the cry.

BUZZ

NP: And Kenneth Williams has challenged.

KW: Well, it’s deviation. Saint Pancras is not for Scotland at all.

PJ: No, but that’s, that’s the station you leave from!

NP: That’s the station you leave from. Yes! It’s a very good joke!

KW: Do you reckon?

NP: Yes!

KW: Well, it’s because you’ve got a warped sense of humor!

NP: Peter, you have two seconds on Saint George starting now.

PJ: Saint George –

BUZZ

NP: And Clement Freud has challenged.

CF: Hesitation.

PJ: No, no.

KW: Yes, I think so.

LC: Aw, no! No!

PJ: Rubbish.

NP: Peter you have another point and one and a half seconds on Saint George starting now.

PJ: We have a statue of him in St. John’s Wood.

WHISTLE

LC: Oh! Well done.

NP: And Peter Jones gained the extra point for speaking as the whistle went, and a number for incorrect challenges, so he now has a very positive lead at the end of that round. Clement Freud, will you begin the next round? The subject: black jack. Will you tell us something about that in just a minute starting now.

CF: An awful lot of definitions of black jack, amongst which I would like to draw the attention of listeners to a substance with which soup is made darker than it was intended by the culinary expert who first thought of it. But possibly black jack in most people’s minds conjures up a game of cards also known as pontoon or ven dien, blackjack being the casino version of it, in which the banker deals cards to customers and pays out to anyone who has closer to the magic figure of 21 than does the employee of the house who has put up the money and therefore has proprietorial charge of the casino in which this –

BUZZ

NP: And Lorraine Chase has challenged.

LC: Casino! Repetition.

PJ: You repeated.

NP: Yes, yes, well listened. So Lorraine, um, has got a challenge there which is correct and a point and there are 16 seconds, Lorraine – yes, you want to talk on the subject now, you’ve got it.

LC: (clears throat)

NP: And the subject is black jack and you start now.

LC: Blackjack, obviously, by the way, is being talked about here. It’s a game of cards. And um a ooh I’m deviating and um ah! Um Ö

BUZZ

NP: Lorraine, you challenged.

LC: Hesitation!

NP: Perfectly correct challenge. So you get a point for that.

LC: Oh! How many seconds have I got left? You’re being kind. Go on.

NP: No, I’m not. You pressed the buzzer and you challenged yourself for some reason. And...

LC: When you challenge yourself Ö

NP: Yes. It was never, it’s not the usual way we play the game.

LC: I might have caught a flaw here. When you challenge yourself, it stops for a little while, you give me a point and then I go back on the subject.

NP: Yeah, you’ve hit on a new idea. If you keep it up...

LC: Right.

CF: But you could go blind!

LC: Eh? Right.

NP: There are seven seconds left for you to try and talk on black jack, Lorraine, starting now.

LC: Blackjack is a game of cards, a game of cards Ö

BUZZ

NP: Lorraine Chase, you’ve challenged yourself.

LC: I repeated myself.

NP: Yeah.

LC: I could keep doing this all night!

NP: Ladies and gentlemen, we are now moving into a whole new era of panel games!

LC: Now I’m cheating. Go on.

NP: You may be cheating, but you’re also winning points. There are three seconds left for black jack with you, Lorraine, starting now.

BUZZ

LC: Black jack Ö

NP: You’ve been challenged by Clement Freud.

CF: Repetition of horseradish.

NP: Did you say horseradish before, Lorraine?

LC: No.

NP: I didn’t think you did. So Lorraine, you have an incor... two seconds to talk on black jack, starting now.

LC: Black Jack was the name of my first dog.

WHISTLE

NP: So our guest, Lorraine Chase, playing the game in her own ingenious way...

LC: Cheating desperately!

NP: No, I don’t know, it was rather, rather, rather unusual...

PJ: Resourceful.

NP: Resourceful’s the word, thank you very much. Yes. Um, you haven’t quite caught up our leader, Lorraine Ö

KW: Which is me-me- me!

NP: No, Peter Jones.

KW: Oh.

NP: But gaining so many points in that round with your resourceful way, you have come into second place ahead of Clement Freud, who is now trailing in fourth place, which is unusual. Kenneth Williams is in third place and Peter Jones, begin the next round. And the subject is thoughtfulness. Will you tell us something about that, Peter, 60 seconds starting now.

PJ: Yes, well that’s a very nice quality which I think I possess in a modest amount. When one goes to a theatre, for instance, it’s nice to be thoughtful and put down the seat for a lady to sit on, provide her with a programme, a box of chocolates, information about the actors which you’ve mugged up beforehand, and generally binoculars or perhaps opera glasses are more appropriate unless the theatre’s extremely large Ö

BUZZ

NP: Lorraine Chase has challenged.

LC: Theatre.

NP: Yes, he repeated the word theatre.

PJ: Yes, that’s right, yes.

NP: Very well listened. Very well done. There are 35 seconds for you to talk on the subject of thoughtfulness, starting now.

LC: Um, well I think he's thoughtful too, and I quite like the idea of it, uh in going to the theater and doing all those nice things for people. How kind. When do you go to the theatre, by the way?

PJ: Well Ö

BUZZ

LC: I love chocolates!

PJ: When are you free?

NP: Clement Freud has challenged.

LC: Um, well! I could fit it in, I could fit it in.

PJ: Yes well, uh, what about... actually... I happen...

NP: Will you two stop snuggling up together over there?

PJ: I happen to know that Lorraine is actually appearing in a play at the moment. I’ve been to see it most nights that it’s been on, and um ...

NP: How very thoughtful of you, Peter.

PJ: Yes, it was.

NP: Now shall we hear Clement Freud’s challenge?

LC: You know, that’s thoughtfulness, you see.

NP: Clement, what was your challenge?

CF: Repetition of theatre. We’ve had five now.

NP: Clement, you take over the subject of thoughtfulness and there are 23 seconds left starting now.

CF: I wish people would be more thoughtful when they went to the theatre when it comes to smoking because it does seem to me that although non...

BUZZ

NP: Kenneth Williams has challenged.

KW: Hesitation.

NP: Yes, I agree.

CF: Oh, I don’t think so. I’m trying to make a point.

PJ: You get a point.

KW: Don't argue, don't argue!

NP: I think most theaters have stopped smoking now.

CF: Theatres never smoked. It was the patrons.

NP: Fourteen seconds on thoughtfulness, Kenneth, starting now.

KW: This has been indulged in for many years by the greatest sages all the way down from Plato. We have thoughtfulness engraved upon the human memory, indeed the recesses of European culture. Our one great...

WHISTLE

NP: So at the end of that round, Kenneth Williams was speaking as the whistle went, gained that all important extra point. Kenneth Williams is now in second place alongside Lorraine Chase, and where better to be? Peter Jones is still in the lead and Clement Freud is trailing a little. Lorraine, it’s your turn to begin and the subject is clothes. Will you tell us something about those in just a minute starting now.

LC: Well clothes, being that’s my favorite subject, are known in the cockney language as these and those. Um, love clothes, I can repeat that...

BUZZ

LC: ... can’t I? Can I repeat clothes?

NP: Peter Jones has challenged.

PJ: Well I thought um sounded like a hesitation.

NP: Yes, it more than sounded like one, it was one.

LC: It did?

PJ: It was, yes, it was.

LC: Is um hesitation, isn’t that funny. Do you know, I’ve been using that for years and I thought it was like a word that you put in. It’s amazing, isn’t it? You don't half learn a lot on here, don't you.

NP: If you thought um was a word, what did you think er was?

LC: Well, the same thing. You know, you bung a and in if you’re a bit confused when you put a couple of sentences together, you bung a and in. Well, I thought if you was talking, and you didn’t know how to get from one bit of conversation to the other, you put "um," "er," "ooh," "ah," things of this nature to color the conversation, to make the sentence a little bit Ö

PJ: Well, you do, actually, but not in this game, you see.

LC: Oh.

PJ: That’s why I’m so hopelessly bad at it! I mean I can’t, I can’t Ö

NP: Peter, you’re doing extremely well this week, and you have the subject again of, uh, not, you have this subject for the first time of clothes, and there are 51 seconds Ö

LC: Who?

NP: Ö starting now.

PJ: They maketh the man, that’s the story we hear. Well, of course it’s absolute rubbish. But clothes –

BUZZ

NP: Uh, Kenneth Williams has challenged.

KW: He’s misquoted the proverb. It’s "manners maketh man."

NP: What is your challenge, then?

KW: He said clothes make them. They don’t.

NP: Well, he still wasn’t deviating from the subject.

KW: Of course he is. He’s deviating from the truth, you great nit! Everyone knows the expression.

NP: He might, he was just misquoting, but he wasn’t deviating from the subject of clothes.

KW: It’s deviation! It doesn’t say "deviating from the subject," it says "deviation." You mustn’t deviate, that’s what it says. It doesn’t say "from the subject." It says "deviation."

NP: The inventor sitting beside me. It’s deviating from the subject on the card, isn’t it?

IAN MESSITER: It’s deviation from the subject, yes.

NP: Yes. Clothes, he wasn’t deviating Ö

KW: There’s no use asking him, he’s a bigger twerp than you!

NP: I wish I could think of...

CF: Anyway, it was deviation, because it’s men who make clothes, it isn’t clothes who make men.

KW: There, hear hear! Quite right!

NP: You can misquote as often as you like, provided you keep going on the subject, which Peter Jones is doing. And he has 46 seconds to continue on clothes, starting now.

PJ: Actually, I’ve seen that phrase written up in the window at an outfitter’s. And –

BUZZ

PJ: -- that’s where I got it from.

NP: Clement Freud has challenged.

CF: Repetition of phrase.

NP: Yes, you did use it before.

PJ: Ah, yes. So I did, yes.

NP: And I have to think back and you're right.

PJ: Marvelous memory!

LC: Swine!

NP: Forty-two seconds are left now on the subject of clothes with you, Clement Freud, starting now.

CF: A little clothing is a dangerous thing. A clothes in time makes nine. Come and clothes with me tomorrow night, I’m not doing anything else. There are infinite number of sayings in which "clothes" and "clothing" appears and I think it’s high time that we add some of these since accuracy in acronyms seems to be no part of this game as currently interpreted by Nicholas Parsons, also known as the chairman who actually gets 4 pounds 75p more Ö

BUZZ

CF: Ö than the people who play it!

NP: Ah, Peter Jones has challenged.

PJ: I didn’t know he was getting that much! Who’s your agent, Nicholas?

NP: I know! It’s a...

PJ: Get him working for me!

NP: ...ridiculous salary, yes. You don’t get very much, but ...

PJ: No.

NP: You don’t get much more either, do you Peter?

PJ: Well, I get the pencil and a pad, and then they give me the buzzer here.

NP: And you also get the subject, because he was deviating from clothes, talking about Nicholas Parsons, and, and er who wants to deviate as much as that? There are 10 seconds left for you, Peter, starting now.

PJ: Clothes often begin as sheep’s wool. They’re taken off the animal, and they are then then spun...

BUZZ

NP: Kenneth Williams has challenged.

KW: We’re, the subject is not sheep’s wool and all, the subject is clothes. It’s not about sheep.

PJ: Well, that’s how they start.

KW: Yes, a lot of things start in a lot of fashions, dear, but we don’t want to know about that! You talk about heating, we don’t want to start hearing about how coal is dug out of the ground, do we? I mean, we want to see what it’s actually like.

PJ: Why not?

NP: Why not?

PJ: There wouldn’t be much heating without it!

KW: Well, I mean I’m not going to enter into some long etymological discussion...

NP: Well, then shut up! And let Peter continue...

KW: I mean I can’t, the audience is screaming out for my voice. They want to hear me. You could pay money. They’re screaming out for it.

NP: Well, they might want to hear your voice but alas it was an incorrect challenge, so I give it back to Peter to continue with four seconds to go on clothes, starting now.

PJ: Then they have to be woven and then after that Ö

BUZZ

LC: Then. Oh.

NP: Lorraine Chase, you challenged.

LC: Then.

PJ: Two thens.

KW: Yes, she’s right, she’s right. Two thens.

NP: Well done, Lorraine.

KW: I heard that. I was going to say the same thing myself.

NP: So Lorraine, you got in and it’s the last round, too, and there’s half a second to go. The subject is clothes, starting now.

LC: Clothes are wonderful!

WHISTLE

NP: Well, alas we have no more time to play Just a Minute so let me give you the final score. For once, Clement Freud finished in fourth place, oh, but only just behind Kenneth Williams, and he was just behind our guest, Lorraine Chase, who –

BUZZ

NP: -- and she’s challenged.

LC: Said "just" twice. Well he did!

NP: Another point to Lorraine Chase, but she still hasn’t beaten our winner, who this week is Peter Jones. So Lorraine was really getting the hang of things at the end. We hope you’ve got the hang of things now. We hope one day we’ll all have the hang of things and we’ll all be playing Just a Minute forever because we love the game, we hope you’ve enjoyed listening, and we hope... and we hope you’ll want to tune in again at the same time next week where once again we start to play Just a Minute! Until then, from all of us here, goodbye!

THEME MUSIC

ANNOUNCER: The chairman of Just a Minute was Nicholas Parsons. The programme was devised by Ian Messiter and produced by David Hatch.