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  Nicholas Parsons: Just A Minute host's first absence in 50 years sparks online frenzy as BBC assures fans 'the apocalypse is not upon us'

  Just A Minute host Nicholas Parsons’ first absence in more than 50 years has sparked a frenzy online with fans branding it “the latest sign of the impending apocalypse”. The 94-year-old presenter has been on the BBC Radio 4 programme since its inception in 1967 but was absent for Monday night’s instalment. Just to reassure those listening to the very unexpected Just a Minute on @BBCRadio4 at the moment - the apocalypse is not upon us - @GylesB1 kindly stepped in to give Nicholas Parsons a coup

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  'Agatha Christie's Marple: A Caribbean Mystery' Review - Julia McKenzie Leads A Cool Cast In A Hot-Blooded Tale

  While Poirot found plenty of evil under the sun generally, Miss Marple was able to pin it down to the Caribbean in this lush, lusty tale of greed, passion and small, neat pistols in drawers. Julia McKenzie was on her usual sweetly sly form as the curious spinster, sent on a warm holiday by her solicitous nephew, and then stuck at dinner next to an old major, who insisted on remembering scandals past. Whereas last week's 'Elephants Can Remember' found Poirot and his pal Ariadne Oliver plodding

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