18/08/2025
Lesbian television and theatre impresario and all round lesbian hero, Sue Perkins, shows another side to her talents as she hosts a new series of a legendary British radio show. Just a Minute airs on the BBC Radio 4 network every Monday night. The programme was first aired on 22nd December 1967, just a couple of months after Radio 4 replaced the old BBC Home Service network. Throughout its half-century history, the show has, in addition to its popularity in the UK, developed an international following through its broadcast on the BBC World Service and, more recently, on the internet. The new series of Just a Minute is its eighty seventh. The programmes premise is described by Wikipedia as follows: panellists to talk for sixty seconds on a given subject, "without hesitation, repetition or deviation". The comedy comes from attempts to keep within these rules and the banter among the participants. In 2011, comedy writer David Quantick ascribed Just a Minute's success to its "insanely basic" format, stating, "It's so blank that it can be filled by people as diverse as Paul Merton and Graham Norton, who don't have to adapt their style of humour to the show at all."
If you would like to hear Just a MInute, then you can find BBC Radio 4 on Freeview 704, on Sky and Virgin platforms, online at BBC Sounds, on various radio streaming platforms, on 198 kHz (1515 Meters) longwave and within the UK on FM frequencies between 93 and 95.5 MHz FM. Radio 4 is also nationwide on DAB radio.
