Question Time (1979)
This topical debate series based on Any Questions? typically features politicians from at least the three major political parties as well as other public figures who answer pre-selected questions put to them by a carefully selected audience.
Seasons: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
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- Country: GB
- Language: English
- Runtime: 60
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Episode 1 - 10/01/2013
Release Date: 2013-01-10David Dimbleby chairs the first Question Time of 2013, from Lewisham in south London. Joining him on the panel are: Ed Davey, the energy and climate change secretary; Lord Prescott, former deputy prime minister; Nadine Dorries, MP for Mid Bedfordshire; John Bird, founder of the Big Issue; and Times columnist Camilla Cavendish.
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Episode 2 - 17/01/2013
Release Date: 2013-01-17David Dimbleby chairs Question Time from Lincoln. On the panel are Conservative Party Chairman Grant Shapps MP; Shadow Energy Secretary Caroline Flint MP; UKIP leader Nigel Farage; Chairman of RLM Finsbury and founding Chairman of Business for New Europe, Roland Rudd; and Dr Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge.
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Episode 3 - 24/01/2013
Release Date: 2013-01-24David Dimbleby chairs Question Time from Weymouth. On the panel conservative health minister Anna Soubry MP, former Labour culture secretary Ben Bradshaw MP, former leader of the Liberal Democrats Ming Campbell MP, editor of Private Eye Ian Hislop and journalist Angela Epstein.
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Episode 4 - 31/01/2013
Release Date: 2013-01-31David Dimbleby chairs Question Time from Lancaster. On the panel are Baroness Warsi, foreign and Commonwealth Office minister; Alan Johnson, former home secretary for Labour; comedian Dom Joly; Guardian columnist Zoe Williams; James Delingpole of the Daily Telegraph.
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Episode 5 - 07/02/2013
Release Date: 2013-02-07David Dimbleby presents Question Time from Stirling. On the panel: Scottish Secretary and Liberal Democrat Michael Moore MP; Humza Yousaf MSP, Minister for External Affairs in the Scottish Government; Lord Falconer, former Justice Secretary; Mary Macleod MP, Conservative Member of Parliament for Brentford and Isleworth; and Sir Brian Souter, Chief Executive of Stagecoach Group.
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Episode 6 - 14/02/2013
Release Date: 2013-02-14David Dimbleby chairs Question Time from Leicester. On the panel are: secretary of state for culture, media and sport, Maria Miller; shadow environment secretary, Mary Creagh; Liberal Democrat peer Susan Kramer; Respect MP for Bradford West, George Galloway; and editor of the Spectator, Fraser Nelson.
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Episode 7 - 21/02/2013
Release Date: 2013-02-21David Dimbleby chairs Question Time from St Paul's Cathedral in London. On the panel are business secretary and Liberal Democrat Vince Cable MP; Labour shadow health minister Diane Abbott MP; former deputy prime minister Lord Heseltine; Rev Giles Fraser, who resigned from his position at St Paul's in 2011; and Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens. This is the first time Question Time has been hosted from St Paul's. The debate takes place directly under the Cathedral's iconic dome.
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Episode 8 - 28/02/2013
Release Date: 2013-02-28David Dimbleby chairs Question Time from Eastleigh, the former seat of disgraced ex-MP Chris Huhne and now the site of a fierce by-election battle between the coalition partners. The panel includes minister for crime prevention Jeremy Browne, Labour's shadow leader of the House Angela Eagle, Conservative MP for Devizes Claire Perry, former Conservative MP and now a member of UKIP's national executive committee, Neil Hamilton and the film director Ken Loach.
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Episode 9 - 07/03/2013
Release Date: 2013-03-07David Dimbleby chairs Question Time from Dover. On the panel are Labour's shadow education secretary, Stephen Twigg MP; Bob Crow, general secretary of the RMT union; Justice Secretary Ken Clarke; Diane James of the Brexit Party; and Daily Mail columnist Melanie Phillips.
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Episode 10 - 14/03/2013
Release Date: 2013-03-14David Dimbleby presents from Cardiff. On the panel are Francis Maude MP, Minister for the Cabinet Office; Chuka Umunna MP, Shadow Business Secretary for Labour; Kirsty Williams AM, Leader of Welsh Liberal Democrats; Leanne Wood AM, Leader of Plaid Cymru; and businessman Theo Paphitis.
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Episode 11 - 21/03/2013
Release Date: 2013-03-21Joining David Dimbleby on the panel of BBC Question Time in York: Michael Gove MP, Education Secretary; Emily Thornberry MP, Shadow Attorney General for Labour; Natalie Bennett, Leader of the Green Party; Mark Littlewood, Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs; and bestselling author Anthony Horowitz.
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Episode 12 - 11/04/2013
Release Date: 2013-04-11David Dimbleby presents Question Time from Lady Thatcher's former constituency of Finchley. On the panel are Conservative Cabinet Minister Ken Clarke MP, Labour's former Home Secretary David Blunkett MP, former leader of the Liberal Democrats Ming Campbell MP, Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee and Lady Thatcher's authorised biographer Charles Moore.
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Episode 13 - 18/04/2013
Release Date: 2013-04-18David Dimbleby presents Question Time from Aldershot. On the panel are former Conservative Party leader Michael Howard, Labour's Shadow Energy Secretary Caroline Flint MP, former Liberal Democrat minister Sarah Teather MP, Daily Mail columnist Amanda Platell and comedian and television presenter Griff Rhys Jones, who is also president of the campaign group Civic Voice.
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Episode 14 - 25/04/2013
Release Date: 2013-04-25David Dimbleby chairs Question Time from Worcester in the last programme before the local elections. On the panel are economic secretary to the treasury, Sajid Javid MP; shadow energy and climate change minister, Luciana Berger MP; deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, Simon Hughes MP; Nigel Farage MEP, leader of UKIP; and Natalie Bennett, leader of the Green Party.
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Episode 15 - 02/05/2013
Release Date: 2013-05-02David Dimbleby chairs Question Time from Dartford on the night of the local elections. On the panel are Justine Greening, secretary of state for international development; deputy leader of the Labour Party Harriet Harman; Lib Dem peer Shirley Williams; historian David Starkey; broadcaster and columnist Victoria Coren.
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Episode 16 - 09/05/2013
Release Date: 2013-05-09David Dimbleby presents Question Time from Coventry. On the panel: Business minister, Jo Swinson MP; former Shadow Home Secretary, David Davis MP; Shadow Education Minister, Tristram Hunt MP; Germaine Greer, feminist writer and academic; and Jerry Hayes, criminal barrister and former Conservative MP.
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Episode 17 - 16/05/2013
Release Date: 2013-05-16David Dimbleby presents Question Time from Ipswich. On the panel: defence secretary, Philip Hammond MP; shadow immigration minister, Chris Bryant MP; former leader of the Liberal Democrats, Charles Kennedy MP; Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett; and the chair of Arts Council England, Peter Bazalgette.
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Episode 18 - 23/05/2013
Release Date: 2013-05-23David Dimbleby presents Question Time from Belfast, where the panel includes Northern Ireland secretary Theresa Villiers, shadow Northern Ireland secretary Vernon Coaker, education minister John O' Dowd, MP for North Antrim Ian Paisley Jnr, gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell and former Islamist radical and chairman of the Quilliam Foundation Maajid Nawaz.
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Episode 19 - 30/05/2013
Release Date: 2013-05-30On the panel in London are Conservative health minister Anna Soubry MP, Labour's former home secretary Alan Johnson MP, UKIP prospective candidate for European Parliament Diane James, political director of the Huffington Post Mehdi Hasan and Julian Fellowes, the writer and creator of Downton Abbey.
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Episode 20 - 06/06/2013
Release Date: 2013-06-06David Dimbleby presents Question Time from Blackburn. On the panel are Margot James, Conservative MP for Stourbridge, Douglas Alexander MP, Labour's shadow foreign secretary, Lord Oakeshott, Liberal Democrat peer, writer AN Wilson and Salma Yaqoob, the former Leader of Respect.
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Episode 21 - 13/06/2013
Release Date: 2013-06-13David Dimbleby presents Question Time from Edinburgh, with an audience of 16 and 17-year-olds. The 2014 referendum on Scottish independence will be the first time anyone under 18 has had a vote in the UK.
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Episode 22 - 20/06/2013
Release Date: 2013-06-20David Dimbleby presents Question Time from London. On the panel are Ed Davey MP, secretary of state for energy and climate change; Dame Tessa Jowell MP, Labour's former minister for the Olympics; Boris Johnson, the Conservative mayor of London; comedian Russell Brand; and Daily Mail columnist Melanie Phillips.
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Episode 23 - 27/06/2013
Release Date: 2013-06-27David Dimbleby presents Question Time from Newcastle. With universities and science minister David Willetts MP, shadow health minister Liz Kendall MP, deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats Simon Hughes MP, comedian and campaigner Mark Steel and former director of the Centre for Policy Studies Jill Kirby.
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Episode 24 - 04/07/2013
Release Date: 2013-07-04David Dimbleby presents Question Time from Basildon. On the panel are: Danny Alexander MP, Liberal Democrat chief secretary to the Treasury; Labour's Margaret Hodge MP, chair of the Public Accounts Committee; Dr Sarah Wollaston, Conservative MP for Totnes; actor and television presenter, Tony Robinson; and contributing editor of the Spectator, Douglas Murray.
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Episode 25 - 12/09/2013
Release Date: 2013-09-12David Dimbleby presents Question Time from London, with international development secretary Justine Greening MP, shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna MP, Green MP Caroline Lucas, Times columnist David Aaronovitch, and a former State Department official in the Bush administration Colleen Graffy.
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Episode 26 - 19/09/2013
Release Date: 2013-09-19David Dimbleby presents Question Time from Rochdale. On the panel: Conservative Cabinet Minister Ken Clarke MP; Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, Harriet Harman MP; Liberal Democrat peer Shirley Williams; Laurie Penny, contributing editor of the New Statesman and chef and restaurateur Antony Worrall Thompson.
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Episode 27 - 26/09/2013
Release Date: 2013-09-26David Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Uxbridge, with education secretary Michael Gove MP, shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander MP, UKIP candidate and Daily Express chief political commentator Patrick O'Flynn, novelist Will Self and journalist Louise Cooper.
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Episode 28 - 03/10/2013
Release Date: 2013-10-03David Dimbleby chairs Question Time from Birmingham. On the panel are chairman of the Conservative Party, Grant Shapps MP; Labour's shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper; Kirsty Williams, leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats; Mehdi Hasan, political director of the Huffington Post UK; and Quentin Letts, parliamentary sketch writer of the Daily Mail.
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Episode 29 - 10/10/2013
Release Date: 2013-10-10David Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Cambridge. On the panel are business minister and Liberal Democrat, Jo Swinson MP; Labour MP, Diane Abbott; Conservative MP, Adam Afriyie; Sarah Churchwell, professor of American literature at the University of East Anglia; and The Times columnist, Matthew Parris.
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Episode 30 - 17/10/2013
Release Date: 2013-10-17David Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Basingstoke. His guests are immigration minister, Mark Harper MP; Labour's shadow education secretary, Tristram Hunt MP; Diane James of UKIP; Daily Telegraph chief political commentator Peter Oborne; playwright and chancellor of Kingston University Bonnie Greer.
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Episode 31 - 24/10/2013
Release Date: 2013-10-24David Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Liverpool, with Conservative education minister Liz Truss, Labour's shadow energy secretary Caroline Flint, president of the Liberal Democrats Tim Farron, author of the book 'Chavs', Owen Jones and Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens.
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Episode 32 - 31/10/2013
Release Date: 2013-10-31David Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from St Austell, Cornwall. On the panel, business minister Matthew Hancock MP, shadow work and pensions minister Chris Bryant MP, Liberal Democrat Jeremy Browne MP, author and journalist Harriet Sergeant and the Gay Times columnist and campaigner for transgender rights Paris Lees.
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Episode 33 - 07/11/2013
Release Date: 2013-11-07David Dimbleby presents Question Time from Boston in Lincolnshire. With defence minister Anna Soubry MP, shadow attorney general Emily Thornberry MP, UKIP leader Nigel Farage MEP, poet Benjamin Zephaniah and Vicky Pryce, author of the book Prisonomics.
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Episode 34 - 14/11/2013
Release Date: 2013-11-14David Dimbleby presents Question Time from Portsmouth where shipbuilding is about to end with the loss of almost a thousand jobs. On the panel: Energy Secretary, Ed Davey; Shadow Business Minister for Labour, Stella Creasy; Nigel Lawson, Conservative former Chancellor; Paul Kenny, General Secretary of the GMB union; and Nikki King, director at Isuzu Trucks UK.
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Episode 35 - 21/11/2013
Release Date: 2013-11-21David Dimbleby presents the topical debate from Salford, with an audience who are all either under 30 or over 60 years old. With health secretary Jeremy Hunt MP, shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan MP, Liberal Democrat peer Olly Grender, writer and broadcaster Joan Bakewell and Daily Telegraph blogger Tim Stanley.
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Episode 36 - 28/11/2013
Release Date: 2013-11-28David Dimbleby presents the topical debate from Falkirk, with Scotland's deputy first minister Nicola Sturgeon MSP, Liberal Democrat secretary of state for Scotland Alistair Carmichael MP, former leader of the Scottish Conservatives Annabel Goldie MSP, Labour's shadow Scottish secretary Margaret Curran MP, co-convenor of the Scottish Greens Patrick Harvie MSP and the singer-songwriter and member of Artists for Independence Eddi Reader.
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Episode 37 - 05/12/2013
Release Date: 2013-12-05David Dimbleby presents the topical debate from east London. On the panel are chief secretary to the treasury Danny Alexander, Labour's shadow secretary for work and pensions Rachel Reeves, former shadow home secretary David Davis, professor of classics at Cambridge University Dr Mary Beard and Nick Ferrari, LBC radio presenter.
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Episode 38 - Question Time Special
Release Date: 2013-12-12David Dimbleby presents a special Question Time from Johannesburg, looking at South Africa after Mandela. On the panel are foreign minister in the last apartheid government Pik Botha, former host of the South African version of The Apprentice and ANC leader imprisoned on Robben Island with Mandela, Tokyo Sexwale, leading anti-apartheid campaigner Peter Hain MP, the parliamentary leader of the opposition Democratic Alliance party, Lindiwe Mazibuko, radical black consciousness activist Andile Mngxitama, and the journalist Eusebius McKeiser.