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WELCOME TO JUST A MINUTE!
starring PAUL MERTON, PETER JONES, STEPHEN FRY and PETE McCARTHY, chaired by NICHOLAS PARSONS (Radio, 8 January 1994)
NOTE: Pete McCarthy's first appearance and only radio appearance, Miriam Jones's first appearance blowing the whistle. NICHOLAS PARSONS: Welcome to Just A Minute! Yes! THEME MUSIC NP: Hello my name is Nicholas Parsons. And as the Minute Waltz fades away once more it is my pleasure to welcome the four exciting personalities who this week are going to play Just A Minute. We welcome back two people who have played the game a number of times, that is Peter Jones and Paul Merton. We welcome someone who has only played it twice before that is Stephen Fry. And someone who has never played it before that is Pete McCarthy. But would you please welcome all four of them! Beside me sits Miriam Jones who's going to keep the score and going to blow her whistle when the 60 seconds are up. And as usual I'm going to ask our four panelists to speak in turn if they can on the subject that I give them without hesitation, without repetition or deviating from the subject on the card. We'll begin the show this week with Peter Jones. Peter the subject is pale. Can you tell us something about that in Just A Minute starting now. PETER JONES: Well the best known pail that I can think of is the one that Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch. Though even as a child I was very doubtful about whether that was the real reason. I suspected that they were up there for a bit of rumpty tumpty! Because after all, water doesn't flow uphill! It tends to descend in climb... BUZZ NP: Pete McCarthy you challenged. PETE McCARTHY: Repetition of hill? NP: Yes you went up that hill a bit too much. STEPHEN FRY: Surely uphill's one word, isn't it? PJ: Yes it is! Absolutely right! Uphill is one word! NP: You may have gone up hill, but Pete hasn't played the game before. I'm going to give it to him for hill. All right? SF: Shee! NP: Pete you have a point... PJ: But you have such an advantage, never having done it before! What do you think my handicap is for having done it for 28 years? I've no chance at all! NP: There are 38 seconds for Pete McCarthy to tell us something about pail starting now. PMc: Peter... BUZZ NP: And Peter Jones has challenged. PJ: Hesitation. APPLAUSE FROM THE CROWD NP: Peter surely after... PMc: It was a deep breath. I mean, I can't, I can't possibly speak and breathe at the same time! NP: I think you should take your breath before I say now Pete. It was two seconds before you said anything. So Peter you have 36 seconds to take over the subject, pail starting now. PJ: I've rather lost the thread of these two characters and what they were doing. But they were seeking H2O, I suppose. Or that's what we were told as children. But er it was my er... BUZZ NP: Stephen Fry you challenged. SF: It was a bit of a mercy dash there. Ah right, a humanitarian mission! PJ: Yes. NP: So Stephen you have 25 seconds and the subject is still pail and you begin now. SF: Alas what can ail the knight at arms alone and palely loitering? So wrote the poet John Keats many years ago. Pale is a word that means ashen, pallid is almost a synonym of course but thankfully not a repetition! I sometimes feel immensely pale when I consider the prospect of having to speak for a minute without er rere... BUZZ NP: Oh you only had two more seconds to keep going too Stephen! SF: Oh I couldn't control! NP: But Paul Merton got in with two seconds to go, the subject is pail and you start now. PAUL MERTON: I woke up the other morning and I looked at myself... WHISTLE NP: That whistle tells us that 60 seconds are up and whoever is speaking at that moment gains an extra point. On this occasion it was Paul Merton and at the end of the round Paul has two points and all the rest have one. Paul will you start the next round, the subject is Dimitri Shostakovich. LAUGHTER FROM THE AUDIENCE NP: I don't know why they're laughing, it's probably one of your favourite composers. You have 60 seconds as usual... SF: At least Paul, you now know he's a composer! NP: Sixty seconds, Paul, starting now. PMe: Dimitri Shostakovich, like his contemporary Igor Stravinsky, was Russian by birth. And his performance of his marvelous Third Symphony in 1921 stunned the Moscow crowd who had never heard such marvelous chromatic sacles before explored in the world of classical music. Unfortunately by the time he was at the peak of his powers which would have been around about the 1940s he brushed up against Joseph Stalin who was at that time dictator of all the Russias. And this man said to Shostakovich "I want you to write music..." BUZZ NP: Stephen Fry... SF: I think that's the third music in fact. NP: Yes. SF: I let the second one go because I was so aghast! NP: Yes it was very impressive. PMe: I don't know why it's impressive that I should have heard of one of the leading classical composers of the 20th century! NP: What was impressive was the amount of information that you packed into the 35 seconds that you spoke. PMe: It's all rubbish! But it's the sort of stuff that would impress you! The audience have a general view that I';m fairly thick but they are... they are agreed that you're thicker than I am! NP: Stephen you had a correct challenge, a point, 25 seconds, Dimitri Shostakovich starting now. SF: I think it was Sir Thomas Beacham, the well-known conductor... BUZZ NP: And Paul? PMe: Deviation, it wasn't! SF: (laughs) PMe: It's a mere rumour! It's a very popular fallacy but he never did! NP: No! PMc: He was in a different country! NP: So your challenge presumably was deviation. We enjoyed the challenge but it's incorrect. Stephen has another point, 24 seconds, Dimitri Shostakovich Stephen starting now. SF: The afore-mentioned baton swinger was asked if he'd ever conducted any Shostakovich and he said "no but I once trod in some!" He was not a great admirer of that... BUZZ NP: Paul challenged. PMe: This is deviation because he actually said it about Stockhausen. SF: He's quite right you know! Quite right! It's amazing what they teach in Metalwork, isn't it! NP: That's right. PMe: Don't be fooled by the show business veneer. (laughs) I never thought I'd say those words in anger! NP: Sixteen seconds, Dimitri Shostakovich starting now. PMe: Well he was a geezer who wrote nice tunes as far as I can work out. And people used to hear them in the Russian salons and... BUZZ NP: And Stephen challenged. SF: That's our second Russian. NP: You did have a Russian before. Seven seconds are left for Dimitri Shostakovich with you Stephen Fry starting now. SF: Dimitri Shostakovich was born in the latter part of the last century to parents who, as is common with Russians, both had fine moustaches! He had a loving upbringing and went to the conservatwois in the capital city... WHISTLE NP: So Stephen Fry was speaking as the whistle went, gained an extra point for doing so and he's now taken the lead ahead of Paul Merton at the end of the round. And Stephen it's your turn to begin, the subject sweets. Will you tell us something about those in this game starting now. SF: Whenever I book into a fine hotel, I always insist in being given a suite. This is because I have an enormously sweet tooth. Hahahaha. Very amusing! No, as a matter of fact it isn't amusing. However, sweet is one of those English hominums. Sweet can mean sweet meats as in confectionery. Mars, galaxies, those kinds of things. One shouldn't mention brand names, but I just have! I don't care! So there! Yah boo! And of course it can also mean a collection of rooms in some kind of guest house... BUZZ NP: Pete... PMc: Repetition of mean. NP: Yes it can mean a lot of different things... SF: He was being mean so he repeated it as well! NP: Yes! But you have a correct challenge, Pete McCarthy and you have the subject, 36 seconds left starting now. PMc: Sweets or desserts as they are known in some circles have never really... BUZZ NP: Stephen Fry. SF: Not the kind of circles that Radio Four listeners, um, are used to! It's terribly non-u, I don't think we want to encourage it. The word is pudding man, brace yourself! Really! We don't want to bury our nose in the trough of some kind of... NP: What is your, what is your challenge Stephen? SF: Oh deviation from, from the proper norms of people... PMc: I don't think we need to divide the nation of our educational background... SF: The nation is already divided, darling! I was merely drawing attention to the demarcation... NP: Pete I disagree with the challenge so you have a point, you have 33 seconds to continue on sweets starting now. PMc: Or puddings as they were probably called in the minor public school which Stephen Fry attended, has never really... BUZZ NP: Stephen challenged. SF: There was a bit of a pause... PMc: It was a major public school! SF: He was waiting for a laugh which rightly didn't come! NP: I know! SF: And the audience were horrified! NP: I think the laugh did come and he rode it actually. But no I think I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt Pete... SF: Quite right! NP: And say that you didn't actually pause there. There are 27 seconds, sweets, starting now. PMc: They're never something that really appealed to me. A little bit of a cheese is rather nice at the end of an evening. But something that cloys and knaws in the stomach until 3 or 4 in the morning is positively beastly. The thought of those currants reappearing in one's nightmares possibly as the eyes of giant spiders has a... BUZZ NP: Stephen Fry you've challenged. SF: This is just babble from the sick bed! I don't know what he's talking about! NP: I think he has deviated from sweets more on to cheese and raisins... PMc: No, no, no, I was... PMe: He was talking about currants. PMc: Currants that had been... NP: The currants came in after... SF: He was giving himself an electric shock! PMe: You don't have currants in cheese Nicholas! PMc: Nicholas... PMe: Unless of course you go to a minor public school! BUZZ NP: Peter Jones has challenged. PJ: You must remember it's his first time here! NP: Peter... LOUD APPLAUSE FROM THE AUDIENCE NP: Peter I've showed generosity from the chairman, he's proved he's good at the game. He deviated before he got on to his currants. So Stephen had a correct challenge, there are 10 seconds for you Stephen on sweets starting now. SF: One of the eternal mysteries of the world is what flavouring goes into the old English spangle. I don't know what it is that contains... BUZZ NP: Pete challenged. PMc: Repetition of what. CRIES OF "OHHHH" FROM THE AUDIENCE SF: But I mean, darling, you can play this way if you like but... you know... NP: Well as it was a correct challenge we have to give it to you Pete. Three seconds on sweets starting now. PMc: Custard... BUZZ NP: And Paul challenged. PMe: Hesitation. NP: No! PMe: Well everybody else seemed to be having a go, so I thought I would. NP: Two and a half seconds on sweet Pete starting now. PMc: White sauce seasoned with brandy can often... BUZZ NP: Stephen Fry? SF: I thought I'd give him another point as it's his first time he's ever played the game. Let him amass a massive score, make it difficult on... NP: Half a second for Pete on sweets starting now. PMc: Sugar sweetens.. WHISTLE NP: So Pete McCarthy then with some help from all the others gained a number of points in that round including one for speaking as the whistle went and has taken the lead. Pete will you take the next round, the subject washing up. Will you tell us something about that mundane er activity in 60 seconds if you can starting... SF: It's obvious why you don't play this game, isn't it! NP: Starting now! PMc: Some people may prefer the solitude of an Ashram or possibly a Jesuit monastery somewhere in the mountains. But I have... BUZZ NP: Paul Merton challenged. PMe: Deviation from the subject of washing up. NP: No, he, he, he is allowed to get on to it. He's only been going for six seconds. PMe: Oh? NP: They probably do washing up in these mountains, in these monasteries up there. So no, I think that was a little bit sharp. PMe: So do I. PMc: That was rather tenuous Nicholas, but thanks a lot! NP: Fifty-four seconds are left, washing up Pete starting now. PMc: But personally I find my greatest moments of spiritual satisfaction and thought making whilst doing the washing up. When one has one's hands in the hot water with the little lumpy bits at the bottom and is gazing out of the window on to the brick wall, all manner of things flash before the mind. I have been known to... BUZZ SF: He has been known to hesitate! NP: Yes! Stephen correct challenge, 36 seconds, washing up, starting now. SF: I Gaze across at Nicholas Parsons in his blazer, and the phrase "you're all washed up" crosses my mind. I don't know why! Washing up however, to return to the main theme of the evening is of course one of those awful chores that we're all expected to. However I possess a machine which does it for me. She's called Elsa and she's extremely kind and um, she does it for a small amount... BUZZ NP: Peter Jones has challenged. PJ: Hesitation, a definite um. NP: Definite um. Definite. SF: I just want to tell the audience in case they think I'm being beastly, that literally it is a machine called Elsa. It's not a woman. That's all I wanted, I wanted to make that clear. NP: Yes... SF: My toaster is called Terence! NP: We didn't... SF: My microwave is called Mattie! NP: Yes, we... SF: My lamp is called Nicholas! NP: We don't... I'd hate you... Right, 17 seconds Peter on washing up starting now. PJ: At the end of a magnificent meal my later mother-in-law used to say "now we'll all get up together, and we'll all sit down likewise". Because she likes people to enjoy washing up at the same time. And when six or eight people all go into the kitchen and they put the dishes into this water, then.. WHISTLE NP: Peter Jones then speaking as the whistle went gained that extra point. Peter your turn to begin, the subject is sawing a girl in half. There are 60 seconds to tell us something about that subject starting now. PJ: I hate waste! Anyway this can't be politically correct, can it, really any more. Surely conjurors are not sawing girls in half any more as part of their entertainment. I think, I've never seen it but there must be some who are sawing men in half. But er... BUZZ NP: Stephen? SF: Well... NP: Yes definite er, definite er. Forty-two seconds Stephen for you to tell us about sawing a girl in half starting now. SF: I agree with Peter really. It's a messy business and one surely not to be desirated in the modern world. However there is a conjuring trick called sawing a girl in half which doesn't actually involve sawing a girl in half, you'll be very pleased to know. It er revolves around the idea of pretending to saw a girl in half, which is of course a fish of a very different liver. However the main procedure involves, I believe, the knees being folded up in some clever cunning fashion and toes and feet pointing out the end of the box or cabinet which is used for this purpose. And the audience is fooled into believing that the girl really has been sawn or sawed, because both words are permissible, in half. Into a moiety as Shakespeare might well have said. The trick goes back in fact to the 18th century. Pre-Houdini, pre-Menet... WHISTLE NP: So Stephen Fry kept going magnificently on sawing the woman in half until the whistle went, gained the extra point. He's equal with Pete McCarthy in the lead, and in second place equal are Peter Jones and Paul Merton. And Stephen it's your turn to begin. The subject, keeping the peace. Will you tell us something about that subject in this game starting now. SF: Well I'll try and tell you something about the subject. I don't think there's much I know that you don't know yourself really. But however oh er... BUZZ NP: Stephen you challenged yourself. SF: Repetition of know. I repeated know. NP: I know. SF: Yeah. NP: That's a correct challenge.... SF: Oh good! NP: Well done! SF: Do I get a point for that? NP: It's a new way of playing the game! Yes! SF: Whew! PMe: It's an outrage! NP: All I can do is say yes, a point for that, you keep the subject, 55 seconds, keeping the peace starting now. SF: I er bought some birds eye codpieces... NP: Yes Peter you challenged? He hesitated. PJ: Oh yes! So he did! LAUGHTER FROM THE AUDIENCE PJ: You were quick on the buzzer there Peter, I must say! Yes! Fifty-two seconds, you tell us something about keeping the peace starting now. PJ: Well I think I'd be an ideal person to keep the peace. I shouldn't bother anybody. Lie in a hammock in the garden with my friends, Tom Collins, Johnny Walker and a few others. And I would be so placid and unaggressive that the peace could go on lasting for a hundred years, or as long as I did. But however there are other people in the world who are er... BUZZ NP: Stephen challenged. SF: Er. NP: There was a touch of the ers there. PJ: Yes. NP: Thirty-one seconds Stephen, back with you, keeping the peace starting now. SF: The United Nations is said to be a peace-keeping force and has elements in it that have managed to hold various rickety peaces throughout er our recent history I suppose. However I do think... BUZZ NP: Stephen? SF: I did pause again in the middle of that bit, I'm so sorry. NP: No actually you didn't pause. SF: Oh didn't I? So that's an incorrect challenge. NP: That's an incorrect challenge. SF: Oh it was a risk! I had to take the risk! NP: You had to take the risk. So you have now given him... SF: The subject is with you Nicholas Parsons, you have just 11 seconds left, the subject is keeping the peace starting now! LOUD APPLAUSE AND LAUGHTER FROM THE AUDIENCE SF: You hesitated! NP: Keeping the peace is one of the most difficult things if you are chairman of Just A Minute. You notice that the four active and highly strung and mostly... most of the time... BUZZ SF: You see you're hopeless! Mostly, wostly boastly doesn't make any sense! NP: You've got the subject back again Stephen and 17 seconds on keeping the peace starting now. SF: There are other organs of state and er enterprise whose endeavors to keep the peace have failed over the history of the world. The League of Nations... BUZZ NP: Paul Merton challenged. PMe: Repetition of history. NP: Yes you had a bit much history before. Well listened Paul, 10 seconds Paul for you to tell us something about keeping the peace starting now. PMe: I had this chess set at home and I was very pleased with it. I was quite proud of it because I'd carved it myself... BUZZ NP: Pete McCarthy challenged. PMc: Deviation surely. NP: Why? SF: Well he's obviously, he's obviously going to talk about the piece that he kept! PMc: He's only got nine or 10 seconds. If he hasn't got round to it yet, he's not demonstrating a great deal of urgency. NP: Well it wasn't a great deal of urgency but I think he was just coming on to the piece that he carved. Paul you have three seconds, keeping the piece starting now. PMe: I nothing I like better to do than to go round to next door... BUZZ NP: Ah... PMc: He said I nothing I like better to do. I heard it! I'm sat next to him! I heard it! SF: The first I... PMe: You complained about the lack of urgency! I was giving you urgency! PMc: I didn't mean that urgent! SF: Paul, despite his accent is from the north and his first I was spelt A-Y-E! He said aye! That was the problem! NP: Paul Merton you have one second on keeping the peace starting now. PMe: Huge great... WHISTLE NP: Stephen Fry is still in the lead, Pete McCarthy follows, then Paul Merton and Peter Jones in that order. And Pete your turn to begin, the subject roads. Will you tell us something about that in this game starting now. PMc: The Empire builder, Cecil Rhodes, once said "remember that you are an Englishman and consequently have won the first prize in the lottery of life". Unfortunately he said it to his zebra because he'd had a few drinks at the time. But despite.. BUZZ NP: Stephen Fry challenged. SF: Well I mean it's impossible because a zebra couldn't have transmitted this famous remark. NP: But there might have been witnesses to it. PMe: There might have been a couple of monkeys somewhere. SF: He actually said it at a lecture in Oxford when setting up the Rhodes Scholarship prize. NP: It doesn't matter. SF: All right. Let's throw truth out the window, shall we Nicholas? PMc: Spoken like an Oxford don! NP: He might have had a whole audience there! They might have got him drunk and then taken him out there, see what he'd say to the zebra. Anything... SF: Meanwhile on Planet Earth! NP: Pete McCarthy, 47 seconds, Rhodes starting now. PMc: So the man's name was given to the country called Rhodesia which nowadays is known as Zimbabwe. I've only been there once, and by coincidence I only know one person... BUZZ NP: Paul Merton challenged. PMe: Repetition of only. NP: Yes and one. Well done Paul, 37 seconds, Rhodes starting now. PMe: Well down the end of my road there's Nellie Clackett. And she's a wonderful woman, because she gies out every morning and sweeps the street outside her own house. And she... BUZZ NP: Stephen Fry. SF: Yeah, at the very best he's only talking about one road and not roads which is on the card. NP: It doesn't matter. I mean the subject is roads. You can talk about this road, that road, whatever you like. He's talking about that particular road. SF: I'm beginning to hate you Nicholas Parsons! I really are! Never mind! Carry on! PMe: Why's it taken you 28 years? NP: Right, 28 seconds for roads with you Paul starting now. PMe: Where I live! BUZZ NP: Stephen challenged yes. SF: I think he planted that pause in order to give me a point, because he knew he was wrong originally! NP: No I don't think he did that... SF: Still, it was a hesitation. NP: It was a hesitation, 26 seconds, roads with you Stephen starting now. SF: The colossus of Rhodes I believe was one of the great wonders of the world. There was seven of those, that was only a single example of the species. The island is between Turkey and Greece and contains many historical and antique venerable memorials. I’ve never visited... NP: Peter you challenged again. LAUGHTER FROM THE AUDIENCE NP: It's actually between Turkey and the North African coast. PMc: You want to get an electrician in to fix that! SF: Yeah! NP: Would you like, would you press your buzzer... SF: No, no, no Nicholas... NP: Press it harder next time will you... BUZZ SF: No Nicholas, darling? NP: Yes? SF: Angel, baby, I want... I just want to say, I want you to know two things. One, my mother is recording this. Two, if you deny me this challenge I will devote the rest of my life to hunting you down and killing you! I said that I believed Rhodes was between Turkey and Greece, and that was true, I did believe it. I now no longer do, because you told me it's somewhere else. But that is, I rest my case on that fact. I can say I believe that Cecil Rhodes talked to a bloody zebra apparently! But I can't say that I believe, in all ignorance, that Rhodes is between Turkey and Greece... NP: I never thought... SF: ...without you leaping down my throat! NP: I never thought you could be so passionate about gaining a point in a game! SF: It's justice! Justice! NP: Justice! SF: Another word you probably don't know about. It's called honour! I'll spell it for you, it's... PMc: You notice he doesn't behave in this bizarre and crazed fashion on the Labour Party advertisements! NP: Peter I think your challenge was reasonable even if... I think technically he was deviating within the rules of Just A Minute... SF: Speaking my beliefs is deviation? PJ: I don't want to interfere with his beliefs! NP: Peter... PJ: What are we talking about? NP: We're talking about roads, you have eight seconds starting now. PJ: The roads all around our neighbourhood are dug up every day and they put pipes, tubes, wires, sewers, everything. There's no limit... WHISTLE NP: Well Peter Jones was speaking as the whistle went, gained an extra point for doing so. But Stephen Fry fortunately is still in the lead. SF: No thanks to you, honeybun! NP: And I have this audience here as witnesses to the fact that he's now going to hunt me down and try and kill me! So... PMe: I think he could probably get sponsorship if he really... LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE FROM THE AUDIENCE NP: Right! Peter Jones, your turn to begin. The subject, good value. Will you tell us something about that in this game starting now. PJ: Well as it happens, good value, the best value in fact in the country today is the radio. Because it costs nothing and it goes on, 24 hours a day. You can get foreign stations abroad. You can get the best music in the world. And you don't have to do anything except buy or acquire a wireless set which I did after I'd been working on this programme for about 12 years. I saved up and I bought my own little set which is British. Roberts, never even heard of Japan. And it's ideal, and I get hours of pleasure from it. Much more than I would television. I'd be prepared to pay a larger license fee for its use than I do for the TV. But then it's a matter of taste I suppose. And all these people tonight of course are very happy to be missing what the airwaves are pumping out visually. And I'm very pleased for them because they seem so jolly, all these characters who are sitting here. I don't know what time it is but the news will be on fairly soon. (stops) BUZZ NP: Peter you went so magnificently for 60 seconds I was wondering how much longer you could go on actually. Because you actually went for 65 seconds. PJ: Oh yes! NP: So you not only get a point for speaking when the whistle should have gone, but also you get a point for not being interrupted. You have two more points at the end of that round. You see, I do look after you Peter. PJ: What is the result? NP: Well you have moved forward from fourth to third place. PJ: Yes well... NP: There's only one point separating Pete McCarthy, Paul Merton and Peter Jones. But a little way out in the lead is Stephen Fry. And Stephen this is going to be the last round and the subject is biceps. Will you start on the subject now. SF: I bought some ceps not long ago from a famous department store in Portnum and Mason. They're a kind of fungoid arrangement, a mushroom really, French, extremely valuable, highly expensive, and delicious in sauces. They were hugely dear, you've no idea. Dry they came, sort of reconstituted by soaking in water, that was the aim of the thing. Biceps also of course, you probably didn't know this, means a set of muscles in the upper arm. I don't possess a very sound pair of biceps, being a very unfit gentleman. I regard fitness, particularly upper body strength as I believe they call it... BUZZ NP: Stephen you challenged again. SF: I repeated upper. NP: I know you did. SF: I just thought I'd... before anybody else got in. NP: I know! PMe: Well I was a second behind! NP: So Paul got in... PMe: No I didn't! NP: You don't want biceps? PMe: No, not really. I can't be bothered! I really can't! BUZZ PMe: Killing you, yes! But... That I could really get interested in! But... BUZZ NP: Peter why do you keep challenging? PJ: Because he repeated I can't be bothered! NP: Thirty seconds left for biceps Stephen starting now. SF: I think they're something to do with lifting and strength, vigour. I sinew power, that sort of nonsense. I don't believe it's a sign of respecting the body to look after things like yoir biceps. My own corpuleal essence is best respected by being sat in a large armchair, and given cigarettes and coffee. Not by pounding away in some gymnasium. So... my own biceps are... NP: Peter you challenged again. SF: No! NP: Your buzzer doesn't seem to work! Yes he was deviating from the subject. SF: Was he? I think what Peter meant was a repetition of my own. It wasn't a deviation but it was a repetition. NP: There was deviation, you got on to your own corp, corp, whatever word you... SF: It's my body dear! Which is where my biceps live! NP: You used the word... SF: Where do you keep yours? In a box somewhere in Crete? NP: You went on to other parts of your body other than your biceps. SF: I was on the body itself! NP: You correctly challenged for my own. And eight seconds Peter for you to finish on biceps starting now. PJ: They can be developed if you lift weights all the time. But it's a very tedious business. You have to go to a gymnasium, risk being photographed and having your face bandied... WHISTLE NP: Well as I said we, er, this will be the last round. We have no more time to play Just A Minute. Let me give you the final score. They're all very close. Paul Merton for once finished in fourth place, just behind Pete McCarthy. In second place coming with a canter at the end is Peter Jones. But he didn't quite catch Stephen Fry who was out in the lead and so he is the winner this week! We do hope that you have all enjoyed this edition of Just A Minute. It only remains for me to say thank you on behalf of Peter Jones, Stephen Fry, Paul Merton and Pete McCarthy. Also Miriam Jones who has kept the score. The creator of the game Ian Messiter. Our producer Sarah Smith. And from me Nicholas Parsons and from all of us here, thank you for tuning in and hope you've enjoyed it, and you'll be with us the next time we take to the air and we play Just A Minute. Until then good-bye. THEME MUSIC |
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