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WELCOME TO JUST A MINUTE! starring CLEMENT FREUD, GYLES BRANDRETH, JENNY ECLAIR and CHRIS NEILL, chaired by NICHOLAS PARSONS (Radio, 15 July 2002)
NICHOLAS PARSONS: Welcome to Just A Minute! THEME MUSIC NP: Thank you, thank you, hello, my name is Nicholas Parsons. And as the Minute Waltz fades away once more it is my pleasure to welcome our many listeners not only in this country but throughout the world. But also to welcome to the programme this week four exciting and diverse and original talents. We have somebody who actually is one of the original players of the game, he’s come back with us again from way back 35 years ago, that is Clement Freud. We also have one of this country’s most original comediennes, that is Jenny Eclair. We have somebody who is an original broadcaster and writer, that is Gyles Brandreth. And somebody who only did the show for the first time earlier this year, and he was so delightfully original, we’ve asked him back again, and that is Chris Neill. Would you please welcome all four of them! Thank you! And as usual I am going to ask them to speak on a subject that I give them, and they will try and od that without hesitation, repetition or deviating from that subject. Beside me sits Claire Bartlett who’s going to help me keep the score, and she will blow a whistle when the 60 seconds are up. And this particular edition of Just A Minute is coming from the beautiful Alhambra Theatre in that fine city of Bradford. And in front of us we have a fine Yorkshire audience! CHEERS FROM THE AUDIENCE NP: Yes! Who are here to give us a real white rose welcome. As we start the show with Jenny Eclair. And Jenny the subject in front of me is traffic wardens. Tell us something about those miss, misused individuals in 60 seconds, starting now. JENNY ECLAIR: Boo traffic wardens! Everybody hates them! I’ve never heard a soul say “actually some of my best friends are traffic wardens”! Can you imagine the shame of your child coming home and saying “actually Mum, there’s something I’ve got to tell you, I want to be a... traffic warden!” BUZZ JE: I can’t even say the words! NP: Right! JE: I’d rather she was a pole dancer! NP: Gyles Brandreth, you challenged first. What is your challenge? GYLES BRANDRETH: Hesitation. NP: Hesitation yes and you, in this game who, that’s a correct challenge, he gets a point for a correct challenge. He takes over the subject which is traffic wardens, and Gyles you have 42 seconds starting now. GB: To have an affair with a traffic warden could well be described as deviation of a kind! Hesitation is something that I would certainly consider before indulging in this. And repetition is not on my mind! But the one that I have actually conjured up is a girl called Liza Lotta. And it was the uniform that got me. Those yellow epaulets and the way that she wore the buttons... BUZZ NP: Chris you’ve challenged. CHRIS NEILL: Do you know, I’ve just, well, because, er, no, I heard a popping noise which I thought might be a hesitation. But it was a popping noise. NP: It was a popping noise? CN: Yeah it wasn’t a hesitation. NP: You’re keen, very keen... CN: I know! NP: I think it was an incorrect challenge so Gyles, you get another point for an incorrect challenge, and you have 20 seconds to continue on traffic wardens starting now. GB: Traffic wardens were introduced in the United Kingdom in the 1960s by Sir Robert mark, when he was the chief constable of Leicestershire, and introduced as well in that particular part of the world... BUZZ NP: Clement Freud challenged. CLEMENT FREUD: Repetition of introduced. NP: Yes, introduced it twice, yes, so you repeat the word, correct challenge to Clement Freud, a point to him and the subject with 11 seconds, traffic wardens Clement, starting now. CF: Traffic wardens have become a misnomer for unpaid or underpaid tax collectors. I think it is quite monstrous how little wardening of traffic... BUZZ NP: And Gyles challenged. GB: I think there was a hesitation between “little” and “wardening”. NP: No, I think you’re getting a bit sharp Gyles. I know you haven’t played the game for quite a long time. JE: Clement’s face is so wasted on radio. NP: I know! GB: When I was helping Clement on with his truss earlier, he said “make no concessions to my age!” NP: I think it’s Clement’s reaction that’s what Jenny was referring to. Clement I disagree, no, no, you were just drawing breath to get on to the next word. And it was an incorrect challenge, you have another point, you have one second left on traffic wardens starting now. CF: They hide... WHISTLE NP: So at the end of that round, oh by the way, in this game whoever is speaking when the whistle goes gains an extra point. It was Clement Freud and so naturally he is in the lead at the end of the round. Chris Neill, would you take the next round. And it is Alhambra. What better when we’re in this beautiful theatre here? But tell us something about Alhambra, 60 seconds starting now. CN: As everyone will know here present, and probably listening on the radio, the Alhambra is a dance. My mother taught me this dance when I was actually... BUZZ CN: Oh! NP: Ah Jenny challenged. JE: I’m sorry Chris. CN: Oh you’re right! Dance! JE: He did say dance twice! CN: I can’t do that, can I? JE: I know you like to dance. NP: No, he’s not... JE: Unfortunately you can’t do it twice in this game. (laughs) NP: So Jenny you have a correct challenge, you have the Alhambra, you don’t have it, but you’ve got the subject of the Alhambra and you have 52 seconds starting now. JE: I actually do have an Alhambra, Nicholas. It’s a car made by Fiat, a cross between a Volkswagen Charonnnnne and a Ford Galaxy... BUZZ NP: Chris challenged. CN: A slight hesitation, running out of things. JE: No! It’s because I’ve got a slight cold and I’m wheezing! CN: Do you make allowances? JE WHEEZES NP: I don’t, I think she did keep going. There was a certain elision between certain words... CN: I thought that! NP: But that’s quite the reverse of pausing, that’s running words together. CN: What is the difference between elision and a pause? NP: A pause is when you stop, an elision is running two words together. CN: Oh! JE: Can you not get me for lying because I haven’t got one at all? NP: So Jenny, an incorrect challenge, another point to you, 44 seconds, Alhambra starting now. JE: They come in a variety of colours, silver, blue... BUZZ NP: Chris Neill challenged. CN: You can’t keep talking about this if it doesn’t exist! JE: Yes I can! NP: She can if she wants to, provided she doesn’t hesitate, deviate. And we have to go with Jenny on this because she wasn’t doing anything else that was wrong in Just A Minute. Forty-one seconds still with you Jenny, Alhambra starting now. JE: The original Alhambra, of course, was a Spanish palace built in the 15th century, by an architect unknown... BUZZ NP: Clement challenged. CF: It was more like the 13th or 14th century! JE SCREAMS NP: I’m afraid Clement... JE: Pedancy! The pedant! Can we put it to a vote? NP: No, no, no... I’m sorry, no. He is right, it was built actually in 1200 and something, which is the 13th century. JE: Right, I’m going to poke my eyes out with this biro now! NP: So Clement’s challenge was correct and he gets the subject and there are 35 seconds, the Alhambra starting now. CF: The Church of Saint Peter in Bradford became the cathedral in 1919 which was the beginning of the 20th century... BUZZ NP: Gyles challenged. GB: No, the beginning of the 20th century was either the year 1900 or the year 1901. NP: So it was the 20th century, you’ve been caught up on centuries as well. So Gyles a correct challenge and you have 25 seconds, Alhambra starting now. GB: When you think of the beauty of the original Alhambra in Grenada, it is somewhat heartbreaking to realise that now these names are conjuring up tired old theatres and a television company that produces Coronation Street... BUZZ NP: Chris has challenged. CN: Deviation, this is certainly not a tired old theatre, it’s lovely! NP: Absolutely! CHEERS FROM THE AUDIENCE NP: You were putting your head into a noose there Gyles! Yes! GB: I of course did not mean this Alhambra! NP: This is the only Alhambra left in the whole of the British Isles! GB: This is the, this is the exception to the rule! NP: Chris you were right, it’s beautiful. CN: Thank you! NP: It was deviation and you have the subject, you have 12 seconds, tell us something about the Alhambra starting now. CN: Anyway with this physical movement I was trying to tell you about somewhere earlier... BUZZ NP: Jenny challenged. JE: He was deviating then, it’s got nothing to do with the physical movement, has it? NP: Well according to him, it has. CN: The dance is a physical movement. JE: Oh you’re back on that! You’re banging on again about that! NP: He’s allowed to bang on about anything in this game, if he wants to. JE: Right. NP: As long as he doesn’t hesitate, deviate or repeat something. So Chris an incorrect challenge. CN: Thank you. NP: You still have the Alhambra or the subject, and you have 10 seconds starting now. CN: I learnt it at Miss Jackie’s School of Dancing for Tots. I was there with my sister Jo... BUZZ NP: Jenny challenged. JE: Two “I”s! I, I, I... BOOS FROM THE AUDIENCE NP: Oh you haven’t won many friends in this audience with that challenge. JE: Don’t tell them I’m from Lancashire, Nicholas! BOOS FROM THE AUDIENCE NP: You’ve lost even more members of the audience now. Um, I don’t know, it was correct challenge but Jenny we do resist the temp... JE: It was bitchy, wasn’t it? NP: It wasn’t bitchy, it was just keenness. CN: I think you should allow for the fact that I didn’t have a university education, thank you! NP: So, but as I, within the rules of Just A Minute, it’s a correct challenge, so Jenny I have to give it to you. Six seconds, Alhambra starting now. JE: It’s amorish in design with fountains and mosaics. I think the grouting’s still quite clean... BUZZ NP: Clement challenged. CF: Two ands! CHEERS FROM THE AUDIENCE NP: So he’s drawn your attention to the fact that we ignore some of the little words like that. So Clement was correct, he has that point, he has the subject, and once again he’s got in with one second... JE: Oh no! NP: Alhambra starting now. CF: There’s nowhere I would sooner be... WHISTLE NP: So once again Clement Freud speaking as the whistle went, gained that extra point. But Jenny Eclair got points in that round, so they’re now equal in the lead ahead of Gyles Brandreth and Chris Neill. And Gyles your turn to begin, the subject is hay fever. Tell us something about hay fever in Just A Minute starting now. GB: It is well-known that Sir Noel Coward who once said that television is for appearing on, not looking at, wrote a number of wonderful plays including Private Lives, A Song Of Twilight, and my own personal favourite, Hay Fever. It is not so well-known that this great... thespian and author... BUZZ NP: Chris challenged. CN: Was that a little hesitation? NP: That was a little hesitation yes. CN: Oh right. NP: He was trying to think of another way to describe Noel Coward and um... CN: Well it’s not that difficult really, is it! NP: Forty-three seconds, hay fever’s with you Chris starting now. CN: “Hey, fever!” the girls cry out to me, what with my effortless rhythm and snaking hips, as I parade down the streets of London town. They can’t get enough of me! My slim figure, you’ll note I have been to the gym! And my well-quaffed hair. I tend to shave at least twice a day, so that I have smooth cheeks for them to kiss. And... that’s it! BUZZ NP: Jenny your light came on simultaneously with Gyles, so I have an impossible decision to make. JE: Shall we fight? NP: Yes. GB: Oh! NP: You give me your challenge and then I’ll find out what Gyles’s was. JE: He hesitated, he ran out of compliments. NP: Right, what is your challenge? GB: Not only did he run out of steam, but also he was back on this dancing thing! He was doing the Alhambra... JE: He’s obsessed! GB: He is obsessed! NP: Right... JE: Shall we try and speak together? NP: No, I’ll tell you what we’ll do, we’ll give you both a point as you both pressed together, and who is um ahead? Um Jenny you’re ahead so Gyles has the benefit of the doubt. Is that all right? JE: Not really, Nicholas! NP: Not really! All right! Twenty-four seconds Gyles, hay fever starting now. GB: What is not so well-remembered is that this aforementioned playwright was also somebody who suffered from the condition of hay fever. And there was the memorable first night of Titus Andromicus in 1955 at Stratford-upon-Avon in which the role of Titus was played... BUZZ NP: Jenny challenged. JE: Oh now he is deviating like mad! NP: No, he repeated Titus. JE: And Titus! Titus, Titus, Titus! GB: Tight as a drum! NP: So Jenny you have got the point, it’s fair plays now. So you’ve got 10 seconds to keep going on hay fever starting now. JE: I can’t be doing with people suffering from hay fever. It’s a moral weakness and an excuse for not passing exams. Boo hoo, I didn’t get an A level because... BUZZ NP: Clement has challenged you. CF: Repetition of hoo hoo! JE: I said boo hoo! NP: She actually said boo hoo, not hoo hoo. CF: Not from here! NP: I have to explain to our listeners that Gyles and Clement sit one side of me, at one side of the stage, and Jenny and Chris on the other side. So it’s very difficult when the audience are so responding, it’s difficult to actually carry. But she did actually say boo hoo and not hoo hoo. GB: You haven’t explained that why, though we’re on the other side of the stage, why we’re in this cage. NP: Jenny an incorrect challenge, you have two seconds on hay fever starting now. JE: They’re always ganging up together, going on about their dreary miserable... WHISTLE NP: So Jenny Eclair, in spite of being generous towards Gyles when they both buzzed together, got other points in that round, including speaking for one as the whistle went. So she’s now taken the lead. She’s ahead of Gyles Brandreth and Clement Freud, equal in second. You don’t need to clap that, it’s just information! And Chris Neill in third place. And Jenny it’s also your turn to begin. JE: Aha! NP: And the subject is dinkies. Which I understand stands for Double Income No Kids. Tell us something about dinkies and you can use that subject as well, Double Income No Kids, in this game starting now. JE: This is a phrase made up in the 80s, around the time that they introduced yuppies. For a while, my partner and I were dinkies, before a child was spawned and er... BUZZ NP: Gyles challenged. GB: I think we were just getting too much anatomical detail and there was hesitation. NP: Hesitation was correct, yes Gyles. You have a correct challenge, you have a point, you have 49 seconds, tell us something about dinkies, Double Income No Kids starting now. GB: Dinkies is an acromyn and these are things that I love like... BUZZ NP: Chris challenged. CN: Isn’t it an acronym? JE: Yes! NP: The correct word is an acronym, Chris you have a correct challenge and you have 44 seconds, dinkies starting now. CN: Actually I’m a ninky, No Income No Kids Yet! But you never know! I know actually dinkies does sound like a character from a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta say. But it is a recognised social condition. As someone said earlier, it was thought up in the time of Margaret Thatcher. So much money for some... BUZZ NP: Jenny challenged. JE: Oh he was being marvellous! But then he just stopped being good, didn’t he. NP: Well he just hesitated. JE: Yes. He hesitated, that’s what he did. NP: Yes you don’t need to comment on his style, just he hesitated! So um Jenny another point, another um 27 seconds available starting now. JE: Most couples have a halcyon financial period before children come along and bankrupt them with nannies, school fees, bassoon lessons, kiddies parties involving the invitation of one of those very expensive clowns that’s not very funny, and ever so scary! Ah.. no, I’ve really lost it! BUZZ JE: So sorry! CF: Hesitation. JE: Yes. NP: Hesitation Clement, correct yes. And you’ve got in with eight seconds on the subject of dinkies starting now. CF: Single Parents Use Nannies Knickers In Emergency is an acronym for spunkie which is... WHISTLE NP: So Clement brought that round to a close with a panache and the audience showed his appreciation of how he managed in this game to work that one out and deliver it, just as the whistle went. But he’s moved forward, he’s still in third place but he’s moved. And Gyles has moved. They’re all actually in the same order and Jenny’s still in the lead. Right, Chris Neill your turn to begin, and the subject, in the spotlight. Tell us something about that subject in this game starting now. CN: Some people may know that The Spotlight is the actor’s bible. It’s a directory of those performers and there are pictures of all of them in there. Some boring afternoons I do go to my local library, and flicking through it, I play the “would I? wouldn’t I?” game. Now basically I’m looking at juvenile leads rather than character actors as you can imagine. But... BUZZ NP: Gyles challenged. GB: We’ve had a repetition of the word “actor”. NP: You’ve had actor, yes. Right Gyles, you’ve got it, 41 seconds, in the spotlight starting now. GB: The Spotlight is the name of a theatrical bar off Broadway on Forty-Second Street, where I once encountered Sir John Gielgud sitting sipping a dry martini and doing a puzzle... BUZZ NP: Clement Freud challenged. CF: Sorry, I thought he said sitting sitting. GB: I did say sitting sipping, they’re not the same word. CF: Exactly right! Which is why I apologised for my interruption. GB: That’s very sweet of you. It’s the least I can do. NP: Gyles you have a point for being interrupted, because you stopped and you have 33 seconds to continue, in the spotlight starting now. GB: In the Spotlight, the mighty thespian was undertaking this little puzzle, in which he was trying to come up with... BUZZ NP: Jenny challenged. JE: Are you allowed to say puzzle? You know when you’ve been interrupted once, and he said puzzle before. Then he was interrupted by Clement wrongly... NP: If you said puzzle in this round. JE: Yes, it’s repetition. GB: I said the word puzzle after Sir Clement, if you don’t mind... JE: Oh I’m sorry! GB: Had actually, pressed, pressed the button and I think somebody of his distinction and seniority... NP: He didn’t actually say puzzle in the round when he was speaking officially. It was in between, during a interruption. Gyles, incorrect challenge so you have another point and 29 seconds, in the spotlight starting now. GB: Picture the scene in the spotlight where this extraordinary thespian is there... BUZZ NP: Jenny challenged. JE: Definitely thespian. GB: No! NP: He did say it... JE: Yes! NP: You talked about... SHOUTS OF “YES” FROM THE AUDIENCE JE: Listen to them! NP: You talked about John Gielgud and you referred to him as this thespian when you came back to talk about him. GB: This mighty actor! But I don’t mind! If this wonderful audience feels this way! NP: And the chairman is convinced of it, so it’s 24 seconds Jenny... GB: I’m accepting it from them, not you Nicholas! NP: Twenty-four seconds Jenny with you, in the spotlight starting now. JE: I love to be in the spotlight. This is because I suffer from a condition known as showing off! I sometimes wonder that I might die of it, it’ll be on my beath, death certificate... BUZZ NP: Ah Chris challenged. CN: Will it be on her beath certificate? NP: I think you can either have it as hesitation or deviation from English as we understand it. CN: I’ll have half and half, thank you! NP: It’s only one point but you have the subject and 13 seconds, in the spotlight starting now. CN: I always remember Sir Dirk Bogarde when he was in that film, Death In Venice, based on the novel by Thomas Mann, sat on the beach and they put all that makeup on him, and all the slap, all down the spotlight... BUZZ NP: Jenny challenged. JE: Ah he was talking about Dirk Bogarde, not about being in the spotlight really. NP: I think he was conveying how much he was in the spotlight. JE: Oh because... NP: He was starring in that film, he was very much in the spotlight. JE: I’m very sorry Chris, you’re very welcome to have the round back! NP: He’s got a point legitimately for being incorrect challenge, four seconds Chris, in the spotlight starting now. CN: He was looking at the boy paddling in the surf off Venice... BUZZ NP: Gyles challenged. GB: I think we now really have moved into a serious area of deviation! LAUGHTER FROM THE AUDIENCE NP: Qualify that! GB: We’ve moved away from the spotlight into a lurid picture of an older man leering after a young boy rushing off into the waves! NP: That is, that is exactly what he did in the, in the, in the... CN: In the film! NP: Yeah, in the film. JE: Yeah but he said Venice twice. GB: Oh okay, he said Venice twice. NP: No, it’s too late now! JE: I said that! NP: You can’t have a supplementary challenge. GB: I’m afraid I felt, I sensed deviation, that’s all, and I just wanted to... NP: Yes I know. You’re very sensitive on that area! Right Chris, the first challenge was an incorrect one so you have another point for that... CN: Thanks! NP: And you have one second on in the spotlight starting now. CN: In my bedroom I had a very large spotlight... WHISTLE NP: So Chris Neill was then speaking as the whistle went, gained an extra point for doing so and er Jenny Eclair’s still in the lead. Chris Neill’s moved forward and Gyles Brandreth’s in second place, then the other two equal in third place. Gyles your turn to begin, and the subject is loyalty cards. Tell us something about that subject in this game starting now. GB: When I was a Member of Parliament the mighty Matthew Parris said of me that I was very loyal and something of a card. And consequently I feel that this is a good subject for me to speak upon. I was so in fact faithful to my leadership that when Mister Major became Prime Minister, I went grey over night. Subsequently when William Hague topped my party, I began to go bald. I was so grateful that Anne Widdecombe did not become leader... BUZZ NP: Clement you challenged. CF: I was saving him for his political oblivion! But he did say “I was” four times. NP: He did. GB: Political oblivion is something Clement will know about! JE: Oh! NP: Oooohh! JE: Down boys! NP: Oh right... CN: They’re all rather camp on that side of the stage! NP: Clement you have a correct challenge, you have 32 seconds, loyalty cards, starting now. CF: My father was for a while the vice-president of the East Anglia Lentil Growers Association. And while this was not an enormously well-paid job, he did get loyalty cards from all those in Essex, Sussex, Lincoln, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk who appreciated the hard work and each birthday, Christmas, Easter, Whitsun and the Bank Holiday Monday in August... BUZZ NP: Gyles challenged. GB: When I challenged he had not said August. It was a repetition of bank holiday because Easter and Whitsun are both bank holidays. JE: Oh dirty! NP: You are getting so keen Gyles! I know you haven’t been with us... You have got to repeat the words, they may be bank holidays. He’s repeating a thought but nit the words. Just A Minute is about language. GB: I understand all that! NP: You just... GB: I’d just had enough of this tedious story, that’s all. NP: You were just getting wound up, and revealing all kinds of interesting aspects about your private life, none of which we believe! Clement, incorrect challenge, you have four seconds, loyalty cards, starting now. CF: If you stick a loyalty stamp on a loyalty card and send it to the National Health... WHISTLE NP: So Clement was then speaking when the whistle went, gained that extra point. He’s now still in third place with Chris Neill, they’re just behind Gyles Brandreth, who’s a little way behind Jenny Eclair who’s still our leader. And I understand we’re moving into the final round. So let me give you the score because they’re all getting pretty close now. Jenny Eclair's still in the lead but she’s only two points ahead of Gyles Brandreth and Clement Freud equal in second place, and a few points ahead of Chris Neill in third place. So Jenny it’s your turn to begin and the subject is rocket science. There’s a challenge for you! Tell us something about rocket science in Just A Minute starting now. JE: Well how fortuitous that I should get this round! When I was a girl, we had rocket science on a Tuesday afternoon, followed by double brain surgery, then hockey! So I know all there is about rocket science. I won’t go into the detail here, I won’t underestimate the audience... BUZZ NP: Clement Freud challenged. CF: Two won’ts. NP: I won’t, right. So correct challenge Clement... JE: I’m very grateful to Clement for that! NP: Rocket science is with you and there are 38 seconds available starting now. CF: Rocket science does tend culinarily to involve the introduction... BUZZ NP: Chris challenged. CN: Well I was slightly led by the audience really! Is culinarily a word? Is that deviation? NP: Well according to the audience reaction, it definitely is. And so Chris you have a correct challenge and you have 33 seconds, tell us something about rocket science starting now. CN: Rocket should be no great science to grow in this country, because it is almost an indigenous plant. And yet when you go and buy it in a supermarket, it’s about eight pounds for a small bunch. I don’t know why! Absolute fortune... BUZZ NP: Clement challenged. CF: I think he goes to the wrong supermarket! NP: So Clement’s correct, he has 24 seconds on rocket science starting now. CF: When I was at school, they said “do you want to do geography, history, or rocket science?” And I decided upon rocket science, and every Tuesday afternoon... BUZZ NP: Jenny challenged. JE: He’s stealing my life! LAUGHTER FROM CF AND THE AUDIENCE NP: Jenny the awful thing about Just A Minute is that you can steal other people’s material. Clement you have another point, 15 seconds, rocket science starting now. CF: It was mixed rocket science. Boys, girls, a lesbian teacher had an unordinate, we had not... BUZZ NP: Gyles challenged. CF: I wanted Gyles to have a point! NP: Yes Gyles? GB: Yes, there was both hesitation... NP: It was hesitation, yes Gyles, so you’ve got in on the subject, six seconds... GB: Oh God! NP: ... tell us something about rocket science starting now. GB: Once upon a time the Shah of Iran took me aside... BUZZ GB: ... and said name dropping... NP: Chris challenged, yes? CN: Ah, would a hesitation? NP: No, I’m afraid not. Gyles it was an incorrect challenge though, so you have another point, three seconds, rocket science starting now. GB: Neil Armstrong and I... BUZZ NP: No, no, no, Chris challenged. CN: That was hesitation. NP: There was no hesitation. JE: It was deviation though! GB: Neil Armstrong, I’m sorry! Rocket science and Neil Armstrong is not deviation! NP: Gyles please, this is not television, you needn’t get so angry! He didn’t actually have you for deviation, he had you for hesitation. CN: I didn’t have you for deviation! I had... It’s Jenny Eclair! She’s mouthing off! JE: Oh! NP: And Jenny from the other side of the stage shouted “deviation”. You were getting, they’re honestly winding each other up so much, thank God this is the last round! We’ll go out and have a little retire afterwards and they’ll either have a drink or a fight! Gyles you have two seconds, you’ve got another point, and you have two seconds on rocket science starting now. GB: When they went to the Moon it was an extraordinary experience for all of them because... WHISTLE NP: So Gyles Brandreth brought that round to a close in acrimony and tension! But it’s all good grist to the mill, isn’t it. And you enjoyed it, didn’t you! As long as they, as long as they feel passionate about it, then we can keep going! Right! Let me give you the final situation. Jenny Eclair who led all the way through, all the way, finished only just in third place. Ahead of Chris Neill. But she was only two points behind our joint winners which are Gyles Brandreth and Clement Freud! A round, an extra round of applause for them! So it only remains for me to say thank you to our four passionate players of the game, Jenny Eclair, Gyles Brandreth, Chris Neill and Clement Freud. I also thank Claire Bartlett who has been helping me with the score, and blowing her whistle so elegantly. And we are also grateful to our producer, Claire Jones who tries to keep us in order when she can. And we are also indebted to Ian Messiter who created this delightful game. And we are very grateful to this lovely audience here in the wonderful Alhambra Theatre in Bradford for cheering us on our way with such style and their passion was equal only to the passion on the stage. Thank you, from our audience, from me Nicholas Parsons, and from our panel, good-bye until the next time we play Just A Minute! THEME MUSIC |
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