WINDFALL!

i've got hold of the ENTIRE 1983 season of just a minute! all twenty shows, as well as their transcripts! kenneth, peter, derek and clement all star, and guests that year included barry cryer, brian johnston (of cricket fame,) jan ravens, victoria wood, (the lovely) aimi macdonald (who is very funny and not as ditzy as her character on at last the 1948 show - it is, i admit, a relief that her speaking voice isn't as high as all that,) gyles brandreth, and the feisty sheila hancock.

you're welcome to ask me for any or all of them, my dears.

i wouldn't put too much faith in the transcripts though. in one of them, i read that kenneth williams was supposed to have said (on the subject of "an affair i'd like to have") this: "obviously i would like to have a steamy affair with some gorgeous gauleiter-like creature!" i boggled at the deliciously disturbing image this conjured up, but when i played the episode, what he had in fact said was "some gorgeous galatea-like creature!"

wasn't that a letdown? i, for one, was much taken by the idea of a gorgeous gauleiter striding about the bedroom.