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42 this season · 2425 totals2019e01 10th January 2019 - London 2019-01-10 22:45
10th January 2019 - London
Fiona Bruce presents her first Question Time from London, with a panel of politicians and other guests facing topical questions from the audience. She is joined by deputy chairman of the Conservative Party James Cleverly MP, shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry MP, deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats Jo Swinson MP, author, broadcaster and columnist for The Times Melanie Phillips and comedian, satirist and presenter of BBC2's The Mash Report Nish Kumar.
s2019e02 17th January 2019 - Derby 2019-01-17 22:45
17th January 2019 - Derby
Fiona Bruce presents debate from Derby, with a panel of politicians and other guests facing topical questions from the audience. She is joined by minister for justice with responsibility for prisons Rory Stewart, shadow home secretary Diane Abbott, deputy leader of the SNP at Westminster Kirsty Blackman, journalist Isabel Oakeshott and professor of European politics and foreign affairs at King's College Anand Menon.
s2019e03 24th January 2019 - Winchester 2019-01-24 22:45
s2019e04 31st January - Lincoln 2019-01-31 22:45
s2019e05 7th February 2019 - Motherwell 2019-02-07 22:45
s2019e06 14th February 2019 - Aylesbury 2019-02-14 22:45
14th February 2019 - Aylesbury
Fiona Bruce presents debate from Aylesbury, with panellists Jacob Rees-Mogg, Lisa Nandy, Jimmy Wales, Grace Blakeley and Geoff Norcott.
s2019e07 21st February 2019 - Chester 2019-02-21 22:45
21st February 2019 - Chester
Fiona Bruce presents debate from Chester. On the panel are the financial secretary to the treasury Mel Stride MP, shadow transport secretary Andy McDonald MP, shadow transport secretary Chris Leslie MP, former England and Liverpool footballer John Barnes, and commentator for the libertarian website Spiked, Ella Whelan.
s2019e08 28th February 2019 - London 2019-02-28 22:45
28th February 2019 - London
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Catford in London. On the panel: Nadhim Zahawi MP, under secretary of state for children and families, chief strategy officer of the oil company Gulf Keystone Petroleum International and co-founder of the polling group YouGov, Conservative; Barry Gardiner MP, shadow secretary of state for international affairs, he also held junior government posts in both the Blair and Brown administrations, Labour; Layla Moran MP, education spokesperson for the Liberal Democrats and the first British MP of Palestinian descent; Lionel Shriver, US-born author of numerous books including the best-selling We Need to Talk about Kevin; and the German comedian, Henning Wehn.
s2019e09 7th March 2019 - Dudley 2019-03-07 22:35
7th March 2019 - Dudley
Fiona Bruce presents Question Time from Dudley. Panellists include former Brexit secretary Dominic Raab, who argues the case for a hard Brexit from the backbenches, Dame Margaret Beckett, the first woman to become deputy leader of the Labour Party as well as the first female foreign secretary, Times columnist Iain Martin, chief executive of Barnardo's Javed Khan and author and Guardian columnist Owen Jones.
s2019e10 14th March 2019 - Ealing 2019-03-14 22:35
14th March 2019 - Ealing
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Ealing. On the panel: James Cleverly MP, deputy chair of the Conservative Party, Conservative; Clive Lewis MP, shadow treasury minister, Labour; Ian Blackford MP, leader of the SNP at Westminster, SNP; Julia Hartley Brewer, journalist, columnist and host of a weekly programme on talkRadio; and Catherine Barnard, professor of European law at Cambridge University.
s2019e11 21st March 2019 - Belfast 2019-03-21 22:35
21st March 2019 - Belfast
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Belfast. On the panel: Conservative defence minister and former captain in the Royal Green Jackets Tobias Ellwood MP, who became the focus of public attention two years ago when he attempted to save the life of PC Keith Palmer who was fatally wounded in the Westminster Bridge attack; shadow solicitor general for England and Wales Nick Thomas-Symonds MP, previously a barrister and academic, as well as an author of books on Clement Attlee and Nye Bevan; the DUP's Jeffrey Donaldson MP, a former corporal in the Ulster Defence Regiment and Northern Ireland's longest serving current MP; Sinn Fein's John O'Dowd MLA, minister of education at Stormont between 2011-2016; and chief executive of the think-tank Demos Polly MacKenzie, who was previoisly chief policy advisor to Nick Clegg.
s2019e12 28th March 2019 - Sheffield 2019-03-28 22:35
28th March 2019 - Sheffield
Fiona Bruce presents topical debate from Sheffield. On the panel are secretary of state for education Damian Hinds MP, shadow Brexit minister Jenny Chapman MP, economist, author and former Greek minister of finance Yanis Varoufakis, chief executive of clothing retailer Next and a Conservative peer Simon Wolfson, and editor of personal finance magazine MoneyWeek Merryn Somerset Webb.
s2019e13 4th April 2019 - Dulwich 2019-04-04 21:35
4th April 2019 - Dulwich
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Dulwich in South London. On the panel: Jeremy Wright MP, secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport, conservative; David Lammy, MP for Tottenham, Labour; Mairead McGuinness MEP, vice president of the European Parliament and a member of Leo Varadkar's Fine Gael party; Ash Sarkar, senior editor at Novara media, lecturer and left-wing activist; and Charles Moore, columnist for the Daily Telegraph and the Spectator, former editor of both publications and of the Sunday Telegraph, and biographer of Margaret Thatcher.
s2019e14 25th April 2019 - Nottingham 2019-04-25 21:35
25th April 2019 - Nottingham
Fiona Bruce presents Question Time from Nottingham with a panel of politicians and other guests facing topical questions from the audience.On the panel are: Victoria Atkins MP, crime minister and minister for women, Conservative; Jon Ashworth MP, shadow health secretary, Labour; Vince Cable MP, leader of the Liberal Democrats; Caroline Lucas MP, former leader of the Green Party and the party's only MP; John Rhys-Davies, actor, best known for his roles in the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the Indiana Jones movies.
s2019e15 2nd May 2019 - Warrington 2019-05-02 21:35
2nd May 2019 - Warrington
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Warrington. On the panel are Ken Clarke MP, former chancellor of the exchequer and home secretary, currently the longest-serving MP in the House of Commons; Labour's shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry MP; comedian and broadcaster Simon Evans; Sonia Sodha, chief leader writer at the Observer and former advisor to Ed Miliband; and Kate Andrews, associate director of free market think-tank the Institute of Economic Affairs.
s2019e16 9th May 2019 - Northampton 2019-05-09 21:35
s2019e17 16th May 2019 - Elgin 2019-05-16 21:35
s2019e18 23rd May - Frome 2019-05-23 21:35
s2019e19 30/05/2019 - Epsom 2019-05-30 21:35
s2019e20 06/06/2019 - Thetford 2019-06-06 21:35
s2019e21 13/06/2019 - Brecon 2019-06-13 21:35
s2019e22 20/06/2019 2019-06-20 21:35
s2019e23 27/06/2019 2019-06-27 21:35
s2019e24 04/07/2019 2019-07-04 21:35
s2019e25 05/09/2019 - Westminster 2019-09-05 21:35
s2019e26 12/09/2019 - Norwich 2019-09-12 21:35
s2019e27 19/09/2019 2019-09-19 21:35
19/09/2019
Fiona Bruce presents topical debate from Southampton. Panellists include home office minister and minister for women Victoria Atkins, Labour peer, former lord chancellor and secretary of state for the constitution Charles Falconer, deputy leader and former coalition minister Ed Davey and journalists Ash Sarkar and Camilla Tominey.