Just A Minute

the show probably did get more popular  in the late 90s – the decision to double the number of shows they were doing each year, and give it another run on TV are signs of that. This is around the time Paul really hit his best form, (and his TV show Have I Got News For You was also at its peak) and people like Graham, Tony, Stephen Fry, Linda were all coming on. So if that’s what was being said, I think that’s probably true. That’s all about 10 years after Kenneth’s death.

 

You don’t need to spend time checking the quote, I do believe you heard it. All I’m saying is I don’t believe the show’s audience suddenly rose in the two or three years after Kenneth’s death. But I think that’s not what whoever you heard meant.

 

 

 Someone (Nic or Clement or maybe even Paul, I'm not sure) said that when Kenneth died BBC thought the show would fail and even considered cancelling it, but then World Service offered to take over the show and that made Radio 4 want to keep it after all. And eventually, they experienced an increase in audience, not decrease. It was something along those lines.