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WELCOME TO JUST A MINUTE! starring PAUL MERTON, PETER JONES, KIT HESKETH-HARVEY and JENNY ECLAIR, chaired by NICHOLAS PARSONS (Radio, 28 January 1995)
NICHOLAS PARSONS: Welcome to Just A Minute! THEME MUSIC NP: Hello my name is Nicholas Parsons. And as the Minute Waltz fades away once more, it’s my pleasure to welcome the four exciting personalities who this week are going to play Just A Minute. We welcome back one of the long-standing players of the game, Peter Jones. A more regular and frequent player of the game, Paul Merton. And two who’ve only played it on two occasions before, that is Jenny Eclair and Kit Hesketh-Harvey. Will you please welcome all four of them! Beside me sits Liz Trott who’s going to keep the score and also blow a whistle when the 60 seconds are up. And as usual I will ask our four panelists to speak on the subject I will give them and they will try and do that without hesitation, repetition or deviation. And this particular edition of Just A Minute is coming from the lovely city of Lincoln. And the first subject we’ve got on the card is mobile phones. No connection with Lincoln. But Peter Jones would you start the show and talk on the subject if you can starting now. PETER JONES: I don’t really like them very much because you can’t attach answering machines to them. And that’s a great advantage... BUZZ NP: Jenny Eclair you have challenged. JENNY ECLAIR: I challenged him because he’s wrong. Because obviously he’s a bit of an old gimmer, he doesn’t realise.... LOUD LAUGHTER FROM THE AUDIENCE JE: ...that you can get mobile phones now that um do have answering services in them. NP: Yes... PJ: What’s the point of them? JE: I also, I also don’t have a mobile phone. But that’s because I’m not very successful or very rich and famous. And I said very twice, but don’t get me yet, all right? NP: Would you, would you like to save it all for the show? JE: Am I allowed to go on? NP: No, no, I’m going to tell you to go on in a minute Jenny. You haven’t played the game very often... JE: No, I’ve no idea! NP: What I need to say is you have a correct challenge. You get a point for a correct challenge... PJ: Why is it correct? JE: Yes! NP: What she said is true actually. In today’s modern world... PJ: People have said the most monstrous things on this show that were not true! NP: I know but this... But on this occasion she was technically correct. So Jenny you have a correct challenge, you get a point for that and you take over the subject, there are 54 seconds available starting now. JE: I’m winning already, good! Ah I don’t have a mobile phone because I don’t have very much money but I’d like to because where I live... BUZZ NP: Peter Jones has challenged. PJ: It’s not true! She’s loaded! APPLAUSE FROM THE CROWD JE: Unfortunately I’ve spent all my money on leather gear and rubber goods so I’m not! NP: Steady on Jenny, remember it’s a family show! Now er Peter we loved that challenge so much we’re going to give you a bonus point for a good challenge but it wasn’t hesitation, repetition or deviation. So Jenny gets a point for being interrupted, keeps the subject, 49 seconds are left Jenny starting now. JE: At my daughter’s sports day everybody but me had a mobile phone. Every time one went trill all the people went down to dig out the mobile phone like a tidal wave, like a Moroccan wave going down. And I joined in, even though I didn’t have one, just so I looked big and important. And where I live in south east London... BUZZ NP: Oh Peter’s challenged. PJ: Repetition of wave. NP: Yes. JE: Yeah. NP: Yes. JE: Very dumb of me, I’m so sorry! NP: Peter you have a correct challenge and you have a point of course for a correct challenge, 34 seconds are available and you still have mobile phones starting now. PJ: I can sit at home, you see, and wait for the person who’s phoning me to speak and then decide whether I want to pick up the phone or not which is a tremendous advantage. But not being able to get in touch with these people who try... BUZZ NP: Kit Hesketh-Harvey you... KIT HESKETH-HARVEY: I’m sure we’ve had an awful lot of people haven’t we? NP: Yes, you did have people before. PJ: Yes I did. NP: Yes, so people give’s you a point and the subject and 20 seconds, mobile phones, Kit starting now. KHH: The problem is living in these deep clement areas as I do is that the mobile phone satellite system doesn’t really network up at all. And so it’s absolutely no use at all. You can’t ring Tom Conti in Hampstead should you want to ring that self-same gentleman. Because he’s discovered that the lines are too busy to that place where he lives. However nowadays ah the old (laughs)... BUZZ NP: Jenny Eclair challenged. JE: He’s lost it totally! NP: No, he did say er which is hesitation. JE: He’s blown it completely! KHH: I know, I’m sorry! JE: And anyway he should lose points for living in the country! LAUGHTER THEN BOOS FROM THE AUDIENCE JE: I can’t... (laughs) NP: Oooh! Ooooh! JE: I’m sorry, I’m a townie! NP: One foul stroke, you’ve alienated everybody in Lincoln! JE: They don’t! They don’t! I just feel nervous if I can’t see a sock shop out of the corner of my eye! I’m just not very good in the country, you know! NP: Well you needn’t feel nervous now because you’re way in the lead and you’ve got another point and another second to talk on mobile phones starting now. JE: Where I live in... WHISTLE NP: Whoever is speaking when the whistle goes gains an extra point. On this occasion it was Jenny Eclair and she’s naturally in the lead at the end of the round. And Kit Hesketh-Harvey will you take the next round, the subject Lincoln Green. Very apt, for the city of Lincoln. But would you talk on that subject starting now. KHH: Of course where we are sitting in this shatteringly beautiful city is called the Lawn and so I suppose in some respects that is the Lincoln Green. However more usually the subject is normally associated with Robin Hood and his Merry Men who wore that hue for their tights. All except Will Scarlet, no doubt, whose wardrobe consultant told him that these tones did not coincide with his own skin colours and that he should choose crimson lake or even vermilion when choosing his stockings. Friar Tuck must have looked like an animated compost heap. However the fact that Robin Hood and his band of... BUZZ KHH: I’ve done it twice, I’m so sorry! NP: Paul Merton you challenged. PAUL MERTON: Yes repetition of Robin Hood. NP: Yes, Robin Hood. PM: And it would have become and his merry band of men. NP: So Paul there are 26 seconds for you to tell us something about Lincoln Green starting now. PM: I don’t know anything about Lincoln Green! BUZZ NP: Peter you challenged. PM: I’m willing to have a go though if you like. NP: Well actually you paused so Peter got in first and he’s got 23 seconds... PM: I didn’t pause, I stopped! NP: Yes you came to a halt... PM: There’s nothing in the game about stopping! NP: Peter a correct challenge, 23 seconds, tell us something about Lincoln Green starting now. PJ: And there’s also Lincoln Amber and Lincoln Red. Though I’ve noticed the drivers pay no attention to these colours! They see traffic lights as merely a recommendation. And I’ve noticed, well, I was nearly killed... BUZZ NP: Kit challenged. KHH: Oh we’ve had two noticeds. NP: You noticed, yes. PJ: Oh yes. NP: Yes you did I’m sorry. PJ: Bad isn’t it! NP: Kit has got in... PJ: Thirty years still doing it! Oh dear! NP: But your contribution is without par! Eight seconds, Kit, on Lincoln Green starting now. KHH: Green has, as Fraser said in his seminal work, the Golden Bar, always been the colour of the outlaw. Kermit the Frog, the man on the Niblets... WHISTLE NP: So Kit Hesketh-Harvey was speaking as the whistle went, gained an extra point for doing so. And at the end of the round Jenny, Peter and Kit are in the lead equal followed by Paul Merton. Jenny Eclair will you take the next round. The subject, jeans. Will you tell us something about that in your urban life... JE: Well... NP: ...starting now. JE: As it happens I’m sporting a triumphant pair of rather sexy PVC jeans. And they do make a funny squeaking kind of noise. So if you hear of a strange sounds emanating from me, it’s these, or it’s a bit of heavy breathing from Nicholas who I think is rather keen. Ummmm and they’re rather tight... BUZZ NP: Kit has challenged. KHH: That’s all right, I was overcome but er... so was, there was a bit of an er as she sat down which I don’t think was squeaking PVC. NP: I know, there was a definite verbal er... PJ: They don’t look like jeans. JE: They are a jeans style actually Peter. PJ: Are they? NP: Yes. JE: Believe me! I know my fashion darling! NP: I would call them PVC trousers, yes I agree. But anyway 45 seconds are available for jeans and it’s you Kit Hesketh-Harvey starting now. KHH: There are many famous jeans in the world. Jean Harlow, for example, the great film star of the 30s, whose hair was even more peroxide and implausible than that of Miss Eclair. She was once in a boat I believe with the then first lady, Margot (pronounced Mar-go) Asquith, and a famous story is told of how she called her Mar-got once too often and... BUZZ JE: He’s churning on about someone called Margo now, we’re on jeans aren’t we? NP: No I think he was relating jeans to... JE: Oh I think he was deviating like crazy! KHH: In those trousers, dear, what could you be doing? NP: All right, benefit of the doubt to Jenny Eclair, 26 seconds on jeans Jenny starting now. JE: Brutus, Lee, Levi, all different kinds of jeans. My favourite is Red Tag 501s which I like to wear very tight indeed, so they cut off my circulation and er I have left... BUZZ NP: Paul Merton challenged. PM: Hesitation. NP: Yes definitely, jeans is with you, 18 seconds are available starting now. PM: So Jean Harlow she turns to Margot Asquith and she says "How do you...?" And Margot Asquith says to her "look my name isn’t Mar-got, it’s Mar-go, the T is silent.." BUZZ NP: Peter challenged. PJ: Repetition of Margot. NP: Of Mar-got and Margot, yes. Right, Peter you’ve got in with eight seconds on jeans starting now. PJ: It’s very difficult to buy a new pair of jeans because they sandpaper them and put them in washing machines with pebbles until they are threadbare... WHISTLE NP: Peter Jones was then speaking as the whistle went. With that extra point he’s taken the lead ahead of the others. Peter we’re back with you to begin, the subject is gangsters. Will you tell us something about those in Just A Minute starting now. PJ: I’d never want to be a gangster myself. I think I’d rather be a Member of Parliament. I’d ask one question every day, and that would really keep me in the style in which I am accustomed for an indefinite period. But being filled full of lead or dumped or taken for a ride is something that er never really has appealed to me... BUZZ NP: Kit challenged. PJ: Sometimes... KHH: There was an er wasn’t there? NP: Yeah I think there was a definite er that time. KHH: Sorry. PJ: You’re not allowed an er? NP: No, you can’t er in Just A Minute. PM: Not even a dramatic er? NP: No, no, it was over-dramatic. Thirty-four seconds Kit on gangsters starting now. KHH: The huge sealty fields of Lincolnshire are manned by gangs of workmen who pick from them cauliflowers and cabbages and brussel sprouts. Graceful maidens with ivory fingers and svelte figures... BUZZ NP: Paul Merton challenged. PM: He’s got a sort of Christmas card! NP: The maidens with ivory fingers picking cauliflowers! PM: It’s a long way from gangsters, isn’t it! NP: It is! KHH: They were all gangbusters, they were gangs working... NP: I think it was definite deviation, definitely. KHH: Sorry. NP: Paul you got in on gangsters, 22 seconds are available starting now. PM: Whenever I think of gangsters, I think of the svelte Al Capone with his ivory fingers, just pointing at somebody who was going to be bumped off next. Of course he ran Chicago very much in the 1920s and in the 1930s as well. That’s not repetition because 1930, I... ahhhh! BUZZ NP: Kit got in first with seven seconds, gangsters, Kit starting now. KHH: Of course at that point Jean Harlow was addressed by Margot Asquith who said the T was silent as in harlot... WHISTLE NP: So Kit Hesketh-Harvey was then speaking as the whistle went, gained an extra point for doing so. Kit it’s your turn to begin, the subject is spirits. Can you tell us something about that, you can take it any way you like, starting now. KHH: Shakespeare, the bard of Avon, filled his plays and his dramatic landscapes with spirits. One thinks of Calibam saying "the isle is full of noises". Or the Scottish Queen saying (shouting) "come you spirits which tend our mortal thoughts, unsex me here and fill me from the top! Oh brimful of direst..." BUZZ NP: Peter’s challenged. PJ: Don’t ring us, we’ll ring you! LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE FROM THE CROWD NP: I must say it’s the first time someone’s come on Just A Minute and done an audition for the National! Peter we love the challenge, we give you a bonus point because it was so amusing. But unfortunately he didn’t hesitate, deviate or repeat anything, so he keeps the subject... BUZZ NP: Yes? JE: He said fill twice. NP: I know he did, but he got in first. I’m sorry Jenny. JE: If you want to play it like that, it’s fine! CRIES OF "AWWWW" FROM THE AUDIENCE NP: But Jenny, Jenny... JE: No I’m ready Nicholas, let’s keep going. NP: Kit you’ve got a point for being interrupted, Peter gets a point for an amusing interjection, 42 seconds are left, spirits starting now. BUZZ NP: Paul’s challenged. PM: Repetition of fool. NP: Yes! LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE FRIM THE AUDIENCE NP: Forty-two seconds with you Paul on spirits starting now. PM: Fools, fools... BUZZ NP: Kit got back in again. All right Kit, 39 seconds on spirits starting now. KHH: The Hindus of course call their spirits... BUZZ NP: Paul challenged. PM: Repetition of of course. NP: Yes you did... PM: Shakespeare of course. KHH: Oh my Lord! Did I really say that? NP: Yes you did say of course before. Sorry, Paul was listening well, 37 seconds are left, spirits, Paul starting now. PM: My favourite spirit without any doubt is whisky. I drink it by the gallon. In fact I’m an alcoholic and I’d like to take this opportunity to come out in front of... BUZZ NP: Jenny challenged. JE: Drinking, did you say drinking twice? NP: No, I like to drink it. JE: Oh I’m sorry. NP: He said drinking before and drink it that time. JE: I’m sorry. NP: No, no, no, I don’t want to inhibit you... JE: Give the ball back to Paul then! KHH: A very precious moment for Paul, I think. NP: Twenty-nine seconds, Paul, spirits starting now. PM: I’m glad to be able to say to you that I’ve been a fool in the past because I have consumed far too much alcoholic beverage for my own... BUZZ NP: Kit challenged. KHH: Repetition of alcoholic. JE: Yes! NP: Yes it was alcoholic before, not alcohol. I was trying to do a quick sort of rewind in the mind to find out whether it was alcohol or alcoholic, it was, repetition of that word. Twenty seconds Kit on spirits starting now. KHH: Call their spirits djinns and gin is indeed my favourite spirit... BUZZ NP: Jenny. JE: Gin twice. NP: No it was gin and djinns my love. KHH: And one was with a DJ. JE: Oh for heaven’s sake! NP: I’m sorry! JE: All I’m trying to do is get some points! NP: I know! And I don’t want to inhibit you from trying because we love having you on the show. But I have to be fair within the rules of the game. Seventeen seconds, spirits Kit with you now. KHH: Initially distilled I believe in the low countries, Holland or Belgium or some such. And it was brought over by the English soldiers who liked to mix it with their tonic under William of Orange... BUZZ NP: Paul challenged. PM: That’s deviation if ever I heard it! That’s still illegal in the Isle of Man! NP: Deviation, I think you’re right Paul! Eight seconds on spirits starting now. PM: I’ve gone off the drink I mentioned earlier because the one I really like now is vodka. I think it’s fantastic, I can’t get enough of it. I drink it like water, I really do! I... BUZZ NP: Yes Jenny? JE: Oh he’s said loads of things. NP: No he said drink didn’t he. JE: Drink drink drink. NP: Well done! Yes you’re right Jenny! APPLAUSE FROM THE AUDIENCE NP: So Jenny’s got in with half a second to go on spirits starting now. JE: Whenever I drink vermouth I have a tonic.... WHISTLE NP: So at the end of that round Jenny Eclair was speaking as the whistle went, she’s gained an extra point for doing so. And she’s still in fourth place. But she’s only one point behind Peter Jones and he’s one behind Paul Merton who is two or three behind our leader Kit Hesketh-Harvey. Jenny it is your turn to begin, reflexology. Can you tell us something about that subject in this game starting now. JE: I have experienced reflexology in a chill-out room at a rave club. Because I am rung, young and trendy. And this, there was a man in there in a caftan reeking of petulia. And he got us all to take our shoes and socks off, the whiff in there was like putting your face in a pack of cheesy whatsits! And I was lying on a rubber mat, I was very embarrassed because once I’d removed my foot apparel, I realised that everyone could see that I bite my toenails really badly. And what they do in reflexology is to say "tweak your toes a lot" and say that’s doing your liver a load of good... BUZZ NP: Peter Jones challenged. PJ: Repetition of toe. NP: Yes. JE: Toe and toes. NP: Toe and toes, I think. PJ: You think? NP: I think, yes. PJ: Are you sure? JE: I don’t want to talk about it any more actually! NP: I know! PJ: I know, well, I don’t want to spoil her effort, you know. NP: I know but you got in with... PJ: Because I can see she’s pathetically desperate to get, to win this ludicrous game! NP: Well Peter you were in the lead for quite a while, you’ve got another point, you have 37 seconds on reflexology starting now. PJ: Well it is based on the soles of the feet. And you can get any financial adviser to do something to them which will probably have an effect in your head. Because it goes to different parts of your body, you see, when you press various buttons, shall we say, in the base of the ah lower part... BUZZ NP: Kit? KHH: Well hesitation. NP: Yes it was, yes it was. KHH: He was doing so well as well. NP: Yes, 18 seconds... PJ: The Mayor is nodding! NP: The Mayor is nodding! PJ: And he’s not going to sleep! NP: No! So Kit, reflexology’s with you, 18 seconds starting now. KHH: Broadly speaking as I understand it, it means if you hit somebody’s knee very hard with a sledgehammer, it moves! I don’t think this is an enormous... conclusion... BUZZ NP: Peter challenged. PJ: Hesitation. NP: Yes indeed Peter, you have 10 seconds on reflexology starting now. PJ: It is one of the alternative medicines that are practiced in rather small rooms in Hampstead and other parts of London. And I’ve never actually been... WHISTLE NP: So Peter Jones was then speaking as the whistle went, gained that extra point and moved into second place behind Kit Hesketh-Harvey. Paul Merton it’s your turn to begin and the subject is heavy metal. Will you tell us something about that in this game starting now. PM: Heavy metal is a variant on rock and roll. It’s a kind of very repetetitive.. oh what a word! BUZZ NP: Jenny yes? JE: Speech impediment! NP: Jenny you’re right... JE: It’s sad really! NP: It is hesitation, yes, 55 seconds on heavy metal with you Jenny starting now. JE: This is the kind of stuff that teenage boys like to play in their bedroom which is preferable to the other kind of things they do in their bedrooms. I’ve said bedrooms twice but we know... BUZZ JE: ...what we’re talking about. NP: Peter Jones challenged. JE: Anyway... PJ: Well she did say bedroom twice. NP: Yes the bedroom came in twice, yes, yes, 49 seconds on heavy metal with you Peter starting now. PJ: Well lead is one of the heavy metals. Gold is the other. And er alchemists use to try to convert one into the other because it was more expensive... BUZZ NP: Kit Hesketh-Harvey? KHH: There were two others. NP: There were two others, I’m afraid there were. PJ: Yes. NP: Yes and 40 seconds for you Kit on heavy metal starting now. KHH: Axel Rose, Iron Maiden, Def Leopard and Dana! There is a difference in the last one in as much as as far as I know she never released a heavy metal disc. I’ve always thought that Meatloaf was oddly rather cuddly, particularly after his single whose name.. completely escapes me... BUZZ NP: Paul Merton got in first. PM: Deviation, a single doesn’t really have a name, like Brian. It’s more a title, isn’t it. His last single whose name I can’t remember. NP: All right Paul, 24 seconds, heavy metal starting now. PM: One of the best heavy metal groups of the last 45 years was Ena Sharples and Her Syncopated Swingers. What a band this was! They could rock any town hall in the country. People would rush to see them, argue for the front row seats, try and get somewhere near the back where they would absorb the marvelous acoustics as they echoed around the room. Of course the lead singer as you know, was a very popular character in Coronation Street, and when she... WHISTLE NP: Paul Merton got the extra point then, speaking as the whistle went. He’s now moved up to third place. He’s one behind Peter Jones who’s two behind our leader who is still Kit Hesketh-Harvey and Jenny is just... JE: Trailing, aren’t I? NP: Just a little, my love. Peter your turn to begin, the subject matches. Will you tell us something about that in this game starting now. PJ: They’re very useful things to keep in a damp cottage. we had some and we kept them in a glass jar with the lid on it. They were invented in the last century, and a lot of girls used to manufacture them at great risk to their health, because they got something called phosijaw which was because they used phosphorous in the making of these little things with their... BUZZ NP: Jenny challenged. JE: Did he say making twice? NP: I don’t think so. JE: No. No I’m sorry Peter. NP: It’s all right. Peter you have another point and you have 38 seconds on matches starting now. PJ: I don’t know that I want that long! LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE FROM THE CROWD JE: I’m going to help you out! BUZZ NP: Jenny you challenged? JE: yes I was just trying to help him out, he’s tired! NP: No you challenged. Yes hesitation? JE: Yeah that’s right. NP: Well done! JE: Okay. NP: Thirty-three seconds on matches Jenny starting now. JE: I once played in a rounders match when I was a Brownie. And I caught the ball in the eye socket. And it really hurt me and I started to swear and I was sent off the pitch! Matches aren’t very useful because you can get lighters very cheaply. You can get four for a quid in the market near me which is brilliant. Because you know children’s parties? When they want going home presents? You can buy them a lighter you see, because that solves the problem. Set a balloon alight, eat a piece of cake and go home! BUZZ NP: Paul Merton’s challenged. PM: Repetition of lighter. NP: Yes. JE: Yes sorry. NP: There was too many lighters there yes. Twelve seconds, Paul, matches starting now. PM: The first football match I went to see was Fulham versus Ena Sharples and what a game that was! Halftime nil-nil, but she came out in the second half... BUZZ NP: Jenny has challenged. JE: Nil nil! NP: Nil nil! PM: Oh! NP: Well listened Jenny, four seconds on matches starting now. JE: A very very good thing you can do with matches is to... BUZZ NP: Paul Merton challenged. PM: Repetition of very. NP: Yes very very. JE: Oh does it count when you go back? Oh I don’t... PM: No you just said very very. JE: If somebody had bothered to explain these rules to me, I might have been able to play this game! PM: No, what you said, you see, you said very and then the next word was very as well! JE: Did I? PM: So in some cases you could say that was repetition! JE: Oh! NP: You can’t actually also, you can’t repeat a word that you’ve used if you’ve got the subject back again in that round. You could use those words in another round. JE: Oh I see! Oh it’s harder than you think, this! NP: It is. Three seconds for you Paul, another point and matches starting now. PM: Bryant and May have been producing matches now for nearly... WHISTLE NP: So Paul Merton again speaking as the whistle went leapt forward. He’s now equal with Kit Hesketh-Harvey in the lead. But they’re only one point together ahead of Peter Jones and he’s only two points ahead of Jenny Eclair. It is all very close. Kit Hesketh-Harvey your turn to begin, the subject impressionists. Will you tell us something about those amazing people in this game starting now. KHH: That movement in late 19th century art, which is best evidenced by the divine little Jeau Te Pome Gallery in the Tiavie Gardens in Paris was initiated by I believe Claude Monet whose study and impression caused a scandal at the time. For he broke light down you see, from its constituent gray into little parts of blue and yellow and red and made it vibrate and tingle in a way that had never been seen before. Gaugin and Renoir and Matese and various others... BUZZ NP: Jenny challenged. JE: He kept saying and. KHH: Yes there were a lot of ands. NP: Yes there were a lot of ands. Yes we often let one or two go but... KHH: I’m sorry. NP: ...three or four... KHH: I was doing jolly well! NP: You were marvelous! KHH: Yes! NP: Wonderful! Thirty-two seconds for you Jenny on impressionists starting now. JE: There is a subtle difference between making an impression and being an impressionist. The former is achieved by walking into a room in thigh-length patent boots. And the latter is being in a corner pretending to be Rolf Harris which is very sad indeed. My favourite impressionist is Rory Bremner, a comedy chum of mine and golfing partner. And his mother came to see me once work, because we worked together... I’ve said work... no! Work and worked! BUZZ JE: I blew it! NP: Oh yes Jenny. You see don’t draw attention to your faux pas... JE: No! NP: ...because often at the pace you go they may miss it! JE: It’s a hilarious anecdote! NP: But Peter got in first, Peter there are 10 seconds on impressionists starting now. PJ: The best impressionist I ever saw was a man called Afrique, A-F-R-I-Q-U-E. He was from South Africa and he made a very daring impression of the Duke... WHISTLE NP: Peter Jones speaking as the whistle went gained the extra point. And Paul it’s your turn to begin, the subject juggling. Will you tell us something about that in this game starting now. PM: There are many things that can be juggled. Spoons, golf balls, cheese, apartment blocks, aardvarks, tortoises, porpoises, dolphins, whales, railway stations, beer mats, labels of all kinds, baked bean tins, cottage cheese, air vents... BUZZ NP: Yes Kit’s challenged you. KHH: Repetition of cheese. NP: Yes there was more than one cheese there yes. KHH: More than one cheese, I’m sorry. NP: There was too many cheeses in the air at the time. Right, 38 seconds, juggling with you Kit starting now. KHH: Cosmopolitan always advertises itself as the magazine for women who juggle their lives. I think this is balls. Most of the time when I juggle that is precisely what I use... BUZZ NP: Paul challenged. PM: Repetition of juggle. NP: Yes. KHH: Oh! NP: The subject is juggling... KHH: Oh fiendish! Oh dear! NP: To remind the listeners, you are allowed to repeat the subject on the card, but on this occasion the subject was juggling and not juggle. So well listened, Paul 29 seconds for juggling starting now. PM: Emulsion paints, cricket greens, door knobs. The list is endless. And of course there are many people who are particularly good at juggling. They’re called jugglers in fact which is just as well because that’s what they do. I’ve worked with some very very very fine exponents... BUZZ PM: Oh! NP: Not two, but three on that occasion! And Jenny got in first, 14 seconds... JE: Yes and it was boring! NP: ...on juggling starting now. JE: Um he just kept saying very... BUZZ JE: I hadn’t started! NP: You did. PJ: Hesitation. NP: You was, you said er, I said starting now... JE: I thought you were my friend Peter! PJ: I don’t know what gave you that impression! LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE FROIM THE AUDIENCE NP: Thirteen seconds on juggling Peter starting now. PJ: Monsieur Eddie Grey was a wonderful juggler and a very funny man because he was a comedian as well. And he told me that Anona Winn was crazy about him! You remember her, don’t you? Well she wasn’t of course and he... WHISTLE NP: Oh dear! Well I’m afraid we have no more time to play Just A Minute. At the end of that it was very close. Well it’s hardly a contest because the fun’s more important. But Jenny Eclair who’s only played it twice before finished only just in fourth place. Behind.... JE: I’m off! NP: ...Peter Jones and Kit Hesketh-Harvey. No you didn’t lose, you were a winner! You just didn’t get as many points as the others, um, who were equal in second place. But only two points ahead of them was Paul Merton so we say he is the winner this week! As I said then there are no losers in Just A Minute but somebody gets more points than the others! So it only remains for me to say thank you to our four bright panelists and also to Liz Trott who has kept the score so well. And also to Ian Messiter who created the game and helps to keep us all in work. And our producer Anne Jobson and me Nicholas Parsons. We hope you enjoyed this edition of Just A Minute and will want to tune in again at the same time next time we take to the air and play Just A Minute. Until then from all of us here, good-bye! THEME MUSIC |
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