starring PAUL MERTON, CLEMENT FREUD, TONY HAWKS and DAVE GORMAN, chaired by NICHOLAS PARSONS (Radio, 10 September 2007)
NICHOLAS PARSONS: Welcome to Just A Minute!
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NP: Thank you, thank you, hello, my name is Nicholas Parsons. And as the Minute Waltz fades away once more it is my huge pleasure to welcome our many listeners throughout the world. But also to welcome four distinctive, individual and, talented performers who this week are going to show their verbal dexterity, their ingenuity and with with language and words as they try and speak on the subject I will give them, and they try and do that without hesitation, repetition or deviation. And those four stalwarts are, seated on my right, it's Paul Merton and Clement Freud. And seated on my left, it's Tony Hawks and Dave Gorman. Will you please welcome all four of them! Seated beside me is Trudi Stevens, who is going to help me with the score, and she will blow a whistle when the 60 seconds have elapsed. And this particular edition of Just A Minute is coming from the recently refurbished Radio Theatre in the heart of Broadcasting House, near the centre of London. And we have a fine looking audience in front of us. So we begin the show with Tony Hawks. Tony, the subject in front of me, Happy Hour. Tell us something about Happy Hour in Just A Minute starting now.
TONY HAWKS: I strongly believe that there should be penalties for people who aren't happy enough during Happy Hour. Furthermore if those people cease to be happy...
BUZZ
NP: And Paul Merton challenged.
PAUL MERTON: I think we had two people then, didn't we? People and people.
NP: Yes we did indeed, well listened Paul, you have 50 seconds to take over the subject of Happy Hour and you get a point of course for a correct challenge and your time starts now.
PM: It does rather infer that the other 23 should be dead miserable. I don't think that's the case. Happy Hour should be extended into a happy life. All of us should do jobs that we find fulfilling. Look at Nicholas Parsons. He actually loves to work, it gets him out of the house, and it's...
BUZZ
NP: Dave Gorman challenged.
DAVE GORMAN: You made me look at Nicholas Parsons!
NP: So Dave what is your challenge within the rules of Just A Minute?
DG: Ah deviation.
NP: Why?
DG: Because you're on the radio and I only ever listen to you. And I have to look at you. And that is a deviation from the norm.
NP: I think your reasoning is very devious, and I'd love to give you a point, and it's lovely to hear from you. But I'm afraid I don't think it was deviation from the rules of Just A Minute. So Paul you have an incorrect challenge, 36 seconds for you still Paul on Happy Hour starting now.
PM: When I first went down in a submarine, I was absolutely ecstatic. We were there underneath the ocean for barely 60 minutes but I have to say it was amongst the most happiest times of my life. Who could have predicted at the age of 14 I would one day become a submariner. I was thrilled to be in that position.
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PM: Somebody's gone ssssssssssssss like that, but there's no reason...
BUZZ
NP: And Clement challenged.
CLEMENT FREUD: Deviation.
NP: Why?
CF: Someone was doing that, it's nothing to do with Happy Hour.
PM: Well I've never been in a submarine for that matter. I mean...
CF: I'm perfectly prepared to believe that going down in a submarine gives you a degree of happiness.
PM: Which is how I've just put it, yes.
CF: Yeah.
NP: And that's what Paul was trying to convey and I absolutely agree.
CF: Were you not listening? You weren't.
NP: I listened to every single word. He went down in a submarine, he was 14 years of age, he was in an ecstatic situation, it was the happiest hour of his life, and he came up again and he was still going on about it. I thought you were going to get him for that noise, ssssssssssss which was a rather repetitious noise, wasn't it. But it's too late now! Paul benefit of the doubt, another point to you, 16 seconds available, Happy Hour starting now.
PM: Bars indulge in the practice of Happy Hour to lure punters into their premises. And once they're drunk, the seasoning will go into their heads, and they will think to themselves, I must have more alcohol. Beer, wine, whisky, gin, brandy, the full panoply of spirits are available to them...
WHISTLE
NP: So Paul Merton was speaking when the whistle went, and whoever is doing that in this game of course gets an extra point. And so at the end of that round, he is the only one to have any points at all. And Clement would you begin the next round, the subject is two sides to every story. Which is what I find when I get a challenge in Just A Minute and I have to make a decision. Sixty seconds for you Clement starting now.
CF: If there are to be two sides to every story, let me give you the first story. Once upon a time in a forest, there lived an elderly woman with eight grandchildren. Her husband was a...
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NP: Tony challenged.
CF: Wasn't a very fluent story, was it.
TH: Was there a hesitation in there?
NP: There was indeed.
TH: The story could have gone on for some days, I felt.
NP: A point to you for a correct challenge Tony, 46 seconds, tell us about two sides to every story starting now.
TH: People say that there are two sides to every story, but is that really the case? There are four sides to a two storied building...
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NP: Dave challenged.
DG: That was a hesitation.
NP: That was a hesitation Dave, yes. So you have the subject, you have 38 seconds, tell us something about two sides to every story starting now.
DG: There are at least two sides to every story and some stories have more than two sides. For example when Kate O'Meara starred in Triangle, that certainly had at least three sides to its story. I used to live in a block of flats. Every single storey had more than two sides. If it didn't, the whole thing would have fallen down. The phrase, two sides to every story, denotes that you should never take one person's word for it, when there might be another version of events that you should really inquire into. Imagine in the legal situation where someone just listened to the first witness and... oh!
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NP: Dave Gorman hasn't played the game as much as the others and he went magnificently then for 45 seconds, well done Dave! And Tony Hawks got in with five seconds to go, so will you take back two sides to every story, five seconds starting now.
TH: There are two sides to every story. Nicholas Parsons knows this only too well. Every time the buzzer...
BUZZ
NP: And Paul challenged.
PM: Didn't we have the phrase there are, we had there are before.
NP: Yes there are two sides to every story, you started before when you said there are two sides to every story and you went on about that. So well listened Paul, right back to the beginning, and got in with half a second to go, two sides to every story starting now.
PM: If we look at something...
WHISTLE
NP: Paul was speaking as the whistle went and gained that extra point for doing so, has increased his lead ahead of Tony Hawks, Dave Gorman and Clement Freud. Dave Gorman will you begin the next round, the subject is room one hundred and two. Tell us something about room one hundred and two starting now.
DG: Before we can fully understand the significance of room one hundred and two, we must first become aware of the literary reference to 1984, set in distopian future. He uses room one hundred and one as a symbol of everything that is wrong in the world. It takes its number from the number of Dalmatians...
BUZZ
NP: And Clement you challenged.
CF: Repetition of number.
NP: Yes there were too many numbers there. So 38 seconds available still Clement, tell us something about room one hundred and two starting now.
CF: I once stayed in room one hundred and two of a not very good hotel in Las Vegas. An at eleven o'clock at night there was a knock on my door and a man said "house detective, have you got a woman in there?" I said no, and he said "would you like one?"
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CF: I think I'll stop there.
NP: Tony Hawks you challenged.
TH: I just want the name of the hotel. No, I think there was a repetition of said in there.
NP: That's right, well done Tony, you have 21 seconds, room 102 starting now.
TH: Room 102 was by far the largest classroom at Goldstone Junior School where I was an infant many years ago. Oh what fun we would have in that very place. We would gather pencil sharpeners...
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NP: Paul challenged.
PM: Well it's a very small word, but there was quite a lot of wes there.
NP: There were quite a lot of wes there, we gathered there and we did this. And a lot of we-wees and so...
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NP: What a funny audience! Eight seconds for you Paul on room 102 starting now.
PM: Room 102 is a magnificent idea for a television programme. What you do is you get people to talk about their favourite things and you then...
WHISTLE
NP: So Paul Merton was speaking then as the whistle went and has increased his lead at the end of that round. And Paul it's also your turn to begin so would you now take the subject of sibling rivalry, 60 seconds as usual starting now.
PM: Oh the Wright brothers were very competitive. Each one wanted to invent the plane first. So Wilbur would say to Orville, "I'm just going round the back to do a bit of shopping." But secretly he was sticking wings on to a Volkswagen and driving down the runway, and soaring above the clouds, and he'd come back, "oh the shops were shut"! And then the other brother would say to himself, "what's that over there?" And he'd run round and he'd get in a Tiger Moth and he'd circle around the aerodrome. Of course it wasn't called that in them days, no, it was called the back of the supermarket and that's what he used to do. As fierce brothers even at an early age...
BUZZ
NP: And Tony challenged.
TH: I just thought he was going to die if I didn't buzz! No, repetition of brothers?
NP: Yes there were two of them, the brothers.
PM: Oh yes.
NP: Yes I mean they were siblings but that was not on the card.
PM: No.
NP: But we did enjoy it, we could have let you go on about that.
PM: Yeah well you didn't though, did you?
NP: Tony you have the correct challenge, a point to you, sibling rivalry, 33 seconds starting now.
TH: Sibling rivalry is not to be confused with gosling rivalry or quisling rivalry. These are completely different things and I shan't be talking about them...
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NP: Paul challenged.
PM: Well it's just rubbish! Deviation, quisling rivalry? What's quisling rivalry?
TH: I couldn't tell you, it's not on the subject.
PM: Well he's deviated from the subject by telling us what he's not talking about! By talking about it, he's deviated from the thing he says he's not talking about, but he is talking about it!
NP: Yes he was going on about different kinds of rivalry, and not sibling rivalry. I was fascinated by the quisling rivalry. All the quislings that occurred during the last war, all rivalling each other. It created an image that...
TH: Well if you give me the subject, I'll tell you about it.
PM: But you said you weren't going to tell us about it! Tony said you weren't going to tell us about quisling rivalry and now you dangle it in front of us!
TH: I might have changed...
NP: No it's sibling rivalry and there are 23 seconds still available, Paul it's with you starting now.
PM: If you take brothers and sisters...
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NP: Tony challenged.
TH: Repetition of brothers.
NP: Oh yeah you used the word brothers before, the Wright brothers.
PM: Did I say brother? No I said brothers.
NP: No you did talk about the Wright brothers yes. So Tony you've got it straight back, 21 seconds starting now.
TH: My three brothers are intensely jealous of me, they've always wanted to appear on this show. A class act is how they describe it. What disillusioned figures they must be if...
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NP: Clement challenged.
CF: Three theys.
NP: Yeah there were three theys. Tough challenge.
PM: That might be the name of each one of his brothers, we don't know.
NP: And Clement you have 14 seconds starting now.
CF: One of the extraordinary things about only children is that not only do they not have...
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NP: And Paul challenged.
PM: Oh it's a shame but there was two onlys in quick succession.
NP: Yes there were two onlys in quick succession.
CF: Ah.
PM: Only child, only.
NP: So there are nine seconds still on sibling rivalry with you Paul starting now.
PM: My sister is somewhat younger than me so I've never been in the position of having an older brother but...
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NP: Clement.
CF: Repetition of brother.
PM: No I said brothers before.
CF: No no!
NP: Brothers.
CF: You said one brother invented this flying machine....
NP: That's right, you did indeed.
PM: Oh I've said brother and brothers.
NP: You said brothers, the Wright brothers, and one brother did this!
PM: You're right, I did, yeah.
NP: Yes yes, so there's seven seconds available, with you Clement on sibling rivalry starting now.
CF: If parents only had er...
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NP: Paul challenged.
PM: Repetition of only.
NP: Only.
PM: Unbelievably, repetition of only.
CF: I believe it.
NP: Six seconds still, sibling rivalry starting now.
PM: Dave Davis and his brothers...
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PM: I've said that again!
NP: Tony challenged.
TH: How many times is he going to say brother and brothers in one round?
PM: Any time I get the chance!
TH: Repetition.
NP: But anyway, a lot of fun isn't it. And correct challenge Tony, you've got three seconds on sibling rivalry starting now.
TH: I've heard it said that the Wright brothers were particularly...
BUZZ
NP: Oh yeah who said that, Dave?
DG: I just heard the word brothers again and it was a Pavlovian reaction by now! Every time I hear it I press the buzzer.
TH: Actually I said brothers in the first time round, I said my three brothers before, so he is right!
NP: So Dave you have one second on sibling rivalry starting now.
DG: Being a twin...
WHISTLE
NP: So Dave Gorman was speaking then as the whistle went, gained that extra point. And he's in third place now, he's ahead of Clement Freud and he's a little bit behind Tony Hawks and a few behind Paul Merton who is still in the lead. And Tony it's your turn to begin, so the subject we'd like you to begin with is how to whistle. Will you tell us something about that subject in this game starting now.
TH: You know how to whistle, don't you Steve? You just put your lips together and blow! Those marvellous words said in a film which unfortunately I cannot say the title of, otherwise I will be buzzed for repetition. The aficionados amongst you will know anyway so you don't need to be patronised by the likes of me, however it has just happened. I would like to add at this point that I have always been an expert whistler, because I was taught how to whistle when I was just four years old in room 102 which was the largest classroom in Goldstone Junior...
BUZZ
NP: Dave challenged.
DG: I don't know, there was a sort of hesitation, a clatter, he stumbled over his words.
NP: He stumbled a little bit there yes, benefit of the doubt, you have the subject of how to whistle, you have 27 seconds available starting now.
DG: I do not know how to whistle. If I were to try to whistle now, it would just sound like I was...
BUZZ
NP: Clement challenged.
CF: I think that was hesitation.
NP: It was hesitation Clement yes, 21 seconds, how to whistle starting now.
CF: Like Dave Gorman I do not know how to whistle. But Trudi who blows the whistle is extremely competent. Seldom has anyone sat next to you with a greater ability to put this thing in her mouth and blow and make a noise which stops us from talking altogether because it is...
WHISTLE
NP: So Clement Freud, speaking as the whistle went, gained that extra point. With others in the round he is now equal with Dave Gorman in third place, one behind Tony Hawks, Paul Merton is just a few ahead in the lead. And Clement it's your turn to begin, what a charming subject now, will you take this, lily of the valley. Tell us something about that in this game starting now.
CF: Lily, many people remember, was a tremendous supporter of Charlton Athletic Football Club, who play at the valley, an old sandpit in south east London, which when it began...
BUZZ
NP: Paul challenged.
PM: There was a slight hesitation there.
NP: There was a slight hesitation Paul. So lily of the valley is with you, 47 seconds available starting now.
PM: Although I don't think the hesitation was perhaps justified enough for me to take over the subject so I hand it back to Clement.
BUZZ
NP: Clement challenged.
CF: I'll accept it!
PM: He'll accept it.
NP: So Clement you have another point and you have 44 seconds, continue on lily of the valley starting now.
CF: The valley when it first opened held 75 thousand people, was the largest ground anywhere, and hardly anyone came...
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NP: Tony challenged.
TH: I think he said ground the first time round.
NP: Yes you did talk about the ground at the beginning.
PM: Pitch, I think.
CF: Mmmm.
NP: No it was ground.
CF: Well...
PM: Is anyone recording this? We could solve a lot of these problems just by listening to it back, couldn't we.
TH: He definitely didn't say pitch.
NP: No he didn't say pitch, he said ground.
TH: Good try Clement!
NP: Lily of the valley is with you, 36 seconds Tony starting now.
TH: (in Welsh accent) Lily of the valley was just outside Swansea, as...
BUZZ
NP: And Paul challenged.
PM: Why is he doing a South African accent?
NP: We enjoyed the interruption.
PM: Yeah.
NP: So we give you a bonus point for that but he was interrupted.
PM: Yes.
NP: And though it was a very bad Welsh accent, he can do what the hell he likes in Just A Minute, provided he doesn't hesitate, repeat something or deviate. So 32 seconds, lily of the valley with you Tony starting now.
TH: (in South African accent) In the valley just outside Cape Town, there was this lily...
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NP: Paul?
PM: Now that's Welsh! That's Welsh! Repetition of just outside,
NP: Just outside, yes that's correct.
PM: Just outside Swansea, just outside Cape Town.
NP: Paul, 30 seconds, lily of the valley is with you starting now.
PM: (in Welsh accent) Lily is a wonderful woman you know. And when you go to the valley, there she is by the cottage. And she's eating lamb o'bread and she's got a rugby ball under her arm! And she's got a Max Boyce album playing...
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NP: Tony challenged.
TH: Well I don't think there's any place for South African... no I think three she gots.
NP: She got yes, she got, she got...
PM: Could you tell the way I was saying it?
NP: Oh yes, I think the Welsh would have been very embarrassed at the whole thing. Twenty seconds, lily of the valley with you Tony starting now.
TH: I'm growing a lily of the valley in my back garden. I planted it last Thursday. Not interesting information for you, but using up valuable time for my point of view. I'm hoping it will grow large...
BUZZ
NP: Paul challenged.
PM: Deviation, he's talking about you know wasting time for his point of view, not giving valuable information. He's come off lily of the valley, he's talking about how much time he's got left. Complete deviation, absolutely outrageous!
NP: Yes...
PM: I've come all the way from Great Portland Street, I don't have to listen to this!
NP: That was echoes of Kenneth Williams who came all the way from Great Portland Street. Yes I think the benefit of the doubt Paul, lily of the valley is back with you, 11 seconds starting now.
PM: I have...
BUZZ
NP: And Clement challenged.
CF: Hesitation.
NP: No! He'd hardly started. And 10 seconds...
CF: He hadn't started, that's what hesitation is!
NP: One second had gone on the clock...
CF: That's hesitation!
NP: And he did speak during that time.
PM: Yeah.
NP: So it would hardly be hesitation.
CF: You think one second is not hesitation?
NP: One second of speech...
CF: It's 16 percent! No it isn't.
NP: It's one, it was one second of speech.
CF: Ah!
NP: And so he has 10 seconds still to continue on lily of the valley starting now.
PM: Edward The Seventh's secret lover was Lillie Langtry. And he used to meet her every Friday night in a valley just round the back of Buckingham Palace. They had a right all time, he used to...
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NP: So Paul Merton was again speaking as the whistle went, gained that extra point, increased his lead ahead of Tony Hawks, Clement Freud and Dave Gorman in that order. And Dave we'd like you to begin the next round, the subject is in a chatroom. Can you tell us something about in a chatroom starting now.
DG: A chatroom depends on the language you are speaking. In English it would be a place on a computer where people could have a virtual conversation. In French it would be a place where you keep a cat. On a com.... oh!
BUZZ
NP: Tony you challenged.
TH: Yes it was quite a faulty buzzer there, I had to actually bash it against the light to get it to work.
NP: So what is your challenge?
TH: Hesitation.
NP: Yes it was indeed yes, so you have 48 seconds on in a chatroom starting now.
TH: If you use wireless Internet, you can actually be in a chatroom whilst being outside. Quite an extraordinary thing if you think about it. But let's not spend too much time on that. I have a chatroom at home, in which I invite guests. We sit down and we have a biscuit sometimes, tea follows, stupid, I should offer that offer first but I don't, I'm particular about that. And we chat sometimes about just how dull I have become in the last year and a half. It's partly as a result of being on this show and having to fill time, not that I'm doing that now Paul, let me tell you. I am chatting, in a way, to this audience, who are enthralled by everything I am saying, which is extraordinary. They must be quite sad...
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NP: Paul challenged.
PM: I don't know if they are enthralled by everything you're saying! I think that's deviation, I don't think they were enthralled by what he was saying.
NP: No I think they were bored but they laughed. I think you're correct, I think that would be a fair interpretation, they were not actually enthralled.
TH: No, I was looking at them Nicholas, not one of them...
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TH: Yeah!
NP: Well I suppose the final arbiters have to be the audience, and they were, according to them, enthralled! It's amazing what will enthral this audience isn't it.
BUZZ
NP: And who challenged then? Clement?
CF: Me. Do you think I could have a bonus point because my buzzer doesn't work very well. I haven't had a point for quite a long time.
PM: He should have a point, he hasn't had a point for a long time.
NP: I know, I know, but the audience endorse it, so give him a point. The audience... in fact give him two points and make him very happy. Right and, but the audience decided that you had been enthralled by your rubbish Tony! So you have the benefit of the doubt and you have 10 seconds, in a chatroom starting now.
TH: In a chatroom just outside Stellenbosch near Cape Town, stood Lily. She had never been in one of these before. She was nervous as you would expect...
BUZZ
NP: And Paul challenged.
PM: Repetition of she.
NP: She? Yes yes two shes. Three seconds available still, in a chatroom with you Paul starting now.
PM: When I sit down in front of my computer early in the morning I say to myself...
BUZZ
NP: Wait a minute, Dave challenged.
DG: I think it was a compuser wasn't it? Not a computer.
PM: No, I've got a cheap one.
NP: It was yes.
PM: I've got a cheap one.
NP: You've got a cheap one? I think you meant to say computer but...
PM: It's a guy who travels back to the bank each day, he's a commuter.
NP: Computer! I think it was deviation from the language as we understand it. So Dave you have the point, you have half a second on this occasion, you're good at getting in like that. In a chatroom with you Dave starting now.
DG: Yahoo dot com...
WHISTLE
NP: So Dave Gorman got that extra point for speaking as the whistle went and he's now equal with Clement Freud in third place, just behind Tony Hawks, and they're all a little way behind Paul Merton who is still in the lead as we move into the final round. And Tony it's your turn to begin and the subject now, the fourth wall. Tell us something about that subject in this game starting now.
TH: The fourth wall is the one you build before you realise you can't get out of the room. It's a terrible error, I've done it on many occasions, had to be rescued some time ago when it happened. But it also is a theatrical reference tom the fourth wall is said to be the one you mustn't break. In a play if you talk to the audience, you have shattered the illusion of the magical world you have worked so hard to create. Oh the director would be furious with you! He would have a bit of a mincy tantrum possibly, coming up to you and saying "what are you doing that for..." (goes into gibberish)
BUZZ
NP: Paul challenged, yes Paul?
PM: Well it went into gibberish then, didn't it?
NP: Yes.
PM: Lapsed into Romanian unnecessarily.
NP: No we will call that hesitation.
NP: Hesitation.
NP: Or deviation, whichever you like. But 27 seconds with you Paul on the fourth wall starting now.
PM: The fourth wall, when we think of how many great walls there have been in the world, how many countries...
BUZZ
NP: And Clement challenged.
CF: Repetition of how many?
NP: That's right. How many.
CF: I would have thought.
PM: Yeah.
NP: Yes, definitely Clement.
PM: I would have thought as well.
NP: Twenty seconds, tell us something about the fourth wall starting now.
CF: I have walked across the fourth bridge and look as I would, no fourth wall, not anywhere. It's odd that bridges tend not to have walls.
BUZZ
CF: Have you noticed?
NP: Tony you challenged.
TH: I think he was just realising how many bridges do have walls! But anyway I think he definitely hesitated.
NP: And so nine seconds are still available Tony, tell us something about the fourth wall starting now.
TH: The fourth wall is slightly positioned onwards from the third wall which itself is also...
BUZZ
NP: And Paul challenged.
PM: No it was hesitation.
NP: That was a hesitation yes, the fourth wall is back with you, Paul and you have four seconds starting now.
PM: Max Wall came from a long line of music hall artistes...
WHISTLE
NP: So let me give you the final situation. Dave Gorman as I said has only played the game once before, he came in a very strong fourth place. Yes was very powerful.
DG: Can I get a point now? That in that game Clement did just buzz in and say can I have some points, and you gave him two. And if you just gave me two for asking, then I'd be level!
NP: I will give you two. Give him two. There's nothing like being bold, so Dave you are no longer in fourth place!
PM: Hang on a second! Am I to understand that myself and Tony are being penalised here because we haven�t so far asked for two points?
NP: It won't make any difference to the result. I can give you both two points if you want. But...
CF: I would very much like to give one of my points...
PM: To charity?
CF: ... to David so he can become third outright.
NP: Sorry no you're not, I give the points! I don't think the contestants can give the points to the other contestants!
PM: Let's have a bloodless coup!
DG: I wouldn't accept your points anyway Clement. I'm very happy to tie with you, I wouldn't want your charity!
CF: I don't want to tie with you!
NP: No I agree with your reasoning Dave, I did give two bonus points to Clement, and you didn't get any so you've got two bonus points, and you're now equal at the end, alongside Clement Freud.
TH: I'm happy to give up some of my points...
NP: I'll tell you what...
TH: I don't need them any more, frankly Dave can have them!
NP: No I'll give you two bonus points as well. Tony Hawks I'll give you two bonus points but you're still in second place.
TH: Oh.
NP: But out in the lead and I don't think any of you were going to catch him today, he's got quite a lot of points has Paul Merton so we say Paul this week you are our winner! So thank you very much! It only remains for me to say thank you to these four fine players of the game, Paul Merton, Clement Freud, Dave Gorman and Tony Hawks. I also thank Trudi Stevens, who has helped me with the score, blown her whistle magnificently when the 60 seconds elapsed. And we are grateful to our producer Tilusha Ghelani. We are very indebted to Ian Messiter who created this amazing game which we enjoy playing. And we are indebted to this lovely audience here at the Radio Theatre in Broadcasting House who have cheerfully cheered us on our way. From me Nicholas Parsons, from our team, good-bye, and don't forget listeners, tune in the next time we play Just A Minute! Yeah!
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