Panel announced for BBC’s Any Questions? show being broadcast from Milton Keynes
The panel has been announced for the episode of BBC political debate show Any Questions?, which is being broadcast from Milton Keynes this evening (Friday).
The show, which is coming from the Open University, will feature three sitting Members of Parliament, one each from the Labour Party, Liberal Democrats and Reform UK, and a Conservative peer.
The first panellist is Labour MP Hamish Falconer, who has represented the Lincoln constituency since 2024.
He was appointed as the Minister for Intergovernmental Relations and European Relations last month when Prime Minister Andy Burnham took office.
The second panellist is Andrew Rosindell MP, who has served as Member of Parliament for Romford since 2001.
He served as a Conservative MP, including as Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs until January 2026, when he defected to the Reform UK party.
The third panellist is Conservative peer Lord David Willetts, who has been a member of the House of Lords since 2015, having served as Member of Parliament for Havant in Hampshire from 1992 to 2015.
He was Minister of State for Universities and Science from 2010 to 2014, and is currently President of the Resolution Foundation, an independent think tank with the stated aim of ‘improving the standard of living of low to middle income families.’
The fourth panellist is Munira Wilson MP, who has served as the Member of Parliament for Twickenham in London since 2019.
She has served as the Liberal Democrats’ spokesperson for education since 2021, and was previously the party’s spokesperson for health, wellbeing and social care.
The long-running political debate show, which has aired live on BBC radio since 1948, 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, but you can listen to the programme live on BBC Radio Four.
The programme will air tonight from 8pm to 8.55pm and will be presented by the BBC’s chief political correspondent Henry Zeffman, who is sitting in for the show’s regular chair Alex Forsyth.
It will be repeated on BBC Radio Four between 1.10pm and 2.05pm on Saturday August 8 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 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.
Listeners can catch-up with the programme through BBC Sounds.