Just A Minute

Is it not just that fewer people were listening and recording these shows when they were first broadcast? You often seem to hear Nick say something to the effect of “When Kenneth died, people thought the show would die with him.” With hindsight we now know that it didn’t, mainly due to Paul coming in, but it took a while for him to really establish himself. Kenneth had been such a mainstay of the show over the years, some may have stopped listening for a while altogether. These unsteady shows with Wendy Richard and Lance Percival are now just in the interim but perhaps at the time people saw them as being the last gasps of a flagging show? Just a thought.