Author:Ian Messiter,Nicholas Parsons,Various
Question: What do you do with the hole in a doughnut? Answer: Try to talk about it for a whole minute without repetition, deviation or hesitation - and without coming to blows with fellow panellists! That's the challenge that has awaited scores of guests on Just a Minute over the years. To celebrate its Silver Jubilee, four of the game's best known players - Clement Freud, Peter Jones, Derek Nimmo and the irrepressible, not to say uncontrollable, Kenneth Williams - respond to some pretty silly topics with hilarious results in two complete programmes of this much loved radio series. In addition, such talented talkers as Peter Cook, Stephen Fry, Sheila Hancock, Paul Merton and Victoria Wood all add their own unique contributions to the laughter. From 'The Most Extraordinary Person I Ever Met' and 'My Pet' to 'Wilhelm Furtwangler' and 'Burping', the wicked inventiveness of the panellists is well and truly exercised under the watchful eye of ever-jovial, though constantly embattled, chairman Nicholas Parsons.
This book is absolutely wonderful - I just read four passages out loud to the Word staff - to actual applause!
—— Mark Ellen , The WordWise, funny and loving - a brilliant memoir about Britpop and possibly the best rock biography since Nik Cohn's AwopBopAlooBop-AlopBamBoom
—— Tony ParsonsFunny, readable and filled with proper gossip. Most importantly, it's a perceptive and tenacious look at what it was really like to be a girl among the blokes in that era
—— Alexandra Heminsley , The New Review, Independent on SundayWener charts the story of her rise from suburban schoolgirl to 1990s pin-up with Indie group Sleeper. Her tone is warm, funny and self-deprecating - and she's not afraid to prick a few egos along the way
—— Daily MirrorAn amusing insight into the banality of band life, and a cautionary tale about the cost of getting what you always wanted
—— The QuietusTeen love, bad haircuts, great music and laugh-out-loud memories
—— Fearne Cotton(This week Sam has been) laughing, crying and over-identifying with Louise Wener's hilarious memoir, Different For Girls
—— Sam Baker - Editor of Red MagazineThoroughly entertaining
—— Record Collector