BBC Radio 4 “Any Questions?” is to be broadcast live from the Community Centre on Friday 17 August. “Any Questions?” first visited the Centre over 40 years ago and returned in 1986 as part of the Wooburn Festival. It is a great pleasure indeed to host the programme for a third time as part of the Community Association's 50th Anniversary celebrations. The panelists are
Debbie Bannigan, Sir David Bell, Baroness Susan Greenfield and Simon Heffer. The chairman will be Shaun Ley.Any Questions? is broadcast live just after the 8.00pm news every Friday. The programme is repeated on Saturday lunchtime at 1.15pm followed by Any Answers? which gives listeners a chance to join in the debate by calling in or emailing. Approximately 1.5 million people listen to the programme the majority hearing the Saturday lunch time repeat.
Shaun Ley, standing in for Jonathan Dimbleby, asks the panel to answer questions from the audience live on air. Questions may be of national or international interest and cover social, political or moral issues and the BBC is not adverse to humorous or witty questions. The only unchanging rule is that the panel never see the question in advance; they hear it at the same time as the audience in the hall and the listeners at home.
Shaun Ley - chair of BBC "Any Questions?"
The panel members are
Debbie Bannigan
Chief Executive of Swansell drug and alcohol charity
Sir David Bell
Vice Chancellor of Reading University
Baroness Susan Greenfield
Professor of Synaptic Pharmacology at Oxford University and a cross-bench peer
Simon Heffer
Daily Mail columnist
The panelists have been confirmed but are subject to last minute change.
This event is sold out
Tickets for the broadcast are available frm the Community Centre Office 01628 522604 and are free. There are only a limited number of tickets so don’t leave it too late. We are asking anyone who has tickets and later find that they cannot attend the broadcast to return them to the Centre Office, so please do check for any returned tickets. The doors open at 6.30pm and everyone is asked to be seated by 7.15pm in time for the introductions and run through. Admission is by ticket only and minimum age for audience members is 14 years.