BBC says panel for Any Questions? episode from Milton Keynes will be announced the day before broadcast
The BBC says the panellists for an episode of Any Questions? which is being broadcast from Milton Keynes next month will be announced the day before the programme.
The long-running political debate show, which has aired live on BBC radio since 1948, is broadcasting from the Open University in the city for its episode on Friday August 7.
It features a panel of guests from politics and public life taking questions from the audience about topical issues.
Free public tickets for the event, which is coming from the Berrill Lecture Theatre at the university’s Walton Hall Campus, have already sold out.
The broadcast from the venue coincides with the 60th anniversary of the publication of the 1966 University of the Air white paper, which set out the vision for what would later become the Open University.
Any Questions?, which will be broadcast live on BBC Radio Four from 8pm to 8.55pm on August 7, will be presented by political journalist Alex Forsyth.
It will be repeated the following day between 1.10pm and 2.05pm and followed by companion programme Any Answers?, in which listeners are invited to phone-in and give their views on the issues discussed during the show.
The most recent edition was broadcast from Birmingham with the panel featuring Conservative MP and shadow education minister Saqib Bhatti MP, the Labour peer and former justice secretary, Lord Falconer, the director of the Academy of Ideas, Baroness Fox and Nick Clegg's former director of policy, Polly Mackenzie.