Ian Messiter
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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)
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
