Ian Messiter

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Revision as of 22:55, 7 June 2006

Contents

Shows

Devised and/or produced the following radio shows (unless marked):

The Adventure Game (puzzle devisor and Argond, TV)

Celebrity Squares (question writer, TV)

Dealing with Daniels (originally Fair Deal)

Hoax! (originally False Evidence)

Just a Minute (originally One Minute Please)

Leave Your Name and Number

Lucky 13

Many a Slip

Twenty Questions

Biography

One of BBC radio's most creative individuals, he worked his way up from Programme Assistant (or record-putter-oner) to producing and co-devising shows such as Petticoat Lane, a programme where women could write in for their problems to be solved.

His first taste of quiz was assisting on the long-running Twenty Questions where he would suggest some of the topics for the panel to guess. In 1951, he had a crack at producing his own panel game One Minute Please which later transformed into the still ever-present Just a Minute.

He died in 1999.

Trivia

He had a working submersible submarine in his garden pond.

Books / Tapes

My Life and Other Games - autobiography


Web links

Infax database

The Guardian - obituary

The Independent - obituary

IMDb entry

Wikipedia entry

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