Question Time

"Step forward Alison Fuller Pedley job title ‘Audience Producer at BBC Question Time’, and member of the British Patriotic Front Facebook group. She also promotes ‘Britain First’ online."

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The audience bias has been quite extreme. I watched one programme where they were in an area which had voted 75% Remain, and the audience members were said all to be under thirty, a group which also strongly favoured Remain, and yet the audience seemed to be packed with "yaboo" angry Leavers. Only one young woman backed the Remain arguments.

Alison Fuller Pedley, who has associated with many right wing groups, has been audience selector for many years. As if it wasn't bad enough having people like Farage appear time and time again on the panel, the audiences have also been selected in a very unbalanced way. If this woman is still doing that job, she should go too.

Perhaps they will go for a different guest presenter each week when DD goes. It works well for Have I Got News For You. There are lots of political presenters available, such as Victoria, already mentioned, James Naughtie, Sarah Smith, Jo Coburn. Someone with a bit of gravitas would be good.

Kirsty Wark and Emily Maitlis may be in the running

Another one here who hopes it's not Jeremy Vine. He's everywhere.

Hopefully a woman will take it on.

I think the panel is always balanced , thought the audience was checked too but as Paddyann said she had friends who were accepted in the audience after they lied then the audience can’t be checked.

Well, I like David even if nobody else does. But I am hoping that it will be Jeremy Paxman who takes over, he's always interesting and watchable even if he is ... er... a bit tetchy at times!

What Iam said.

I think he is in a position to choose what he does and how often. He probably won’t do much.

The audience is selected in a way that tries to balance various political views.
I do not see Dimbledong as a snob, he's typical of men of his age and dare I say class.
Not Jeremy Vine please. He's a Londoncentric, self satisfied little * who is sarcastic, patronising and disdains the audience of his mid day show on Radio 2. Plus his voice, awful.
Let's have a woman, Victoria Derbyshire along with numerous other female presenters would be good candidates.

True Pamela, just reporting would mean more work QT is only once a week.

Annie , I think that being in the media is like a drug to some people.
Maybe he’d just be a non-person if he just enjoyed life. Sorry I got that wrong. He must be enjoying it. The money, the status......etc.

Another pleased he's going .I have friends who were turned down for QT after answering that they were SNP supporters...yet got on ...eventually when they said they voted tory.The audience is always scewed towards whatever he's pushing for the government.,Hence the rise and rise of Farage .who was on QT numerous times .even before anyone knew who he was,getting his Brexit message out.To be honest the whole BBC needs to go or to stop braodcasting political programmes that way we wont get just the biased views that sway audiences who dont have any other means of gaining (true) information

Hurray!!

I am surprised he wants to return to reporting, thought at 80 he would want to retire.

Who cares? They have picked panel members, and an engineered audience. It would make more sense if they had Any Answers for the whole hour and a quarter. You get some weird views there, but at least they are the personal views of the callers, not those toeing the party line.

Thank goodness he’s going I can’t stand him but I do like the QT format . He is so blatantly bias and such a snob . There’s talk of it being a woman who takes over . I agree with you Pamela not Jeremy ( I like the sound if my own voice) Vine.