Question Time - Season 33

First aired: 1/13/2011 39 episodes
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Episodes

1. 13/01/2011

Aired: 1/13/2011

Topical debate from London with a panel of prominent public figures and an invited audience, chaired by David Dimbleby. On the panel are Education Secretary Michael Gove MP, former Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy MP, Shadow Health Minister Diane Abbott MP, award-winning author Jeanette Winterson and businessman James Caan.

2. 20/01/2011

Aired: 1/20/2011

David Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Burnley. The panel includes Alastair Campbell; George Galloway; Lib Dem deputy leader, Simon Hughes; Secretary of State for the Environment, Caroline Spelman; and the Chairman of the Professional Footballers Association, the Burnley defender Clarke Carlisle.

3. 27/01/2011

Aired: 1/27/2011

Topical debate from Cambridge chaired by David Dimbleby. The panel includes Energy Secretary and Liberal Democrat MP Chris Huhne, Parliamentary private secretary to Labour leader Ed Miliband, Chuka Umunna, former Conservative MP Edwina Currie, businesswoman and former Apprentice contestant Katie Hopkins and journalist Will Self.

4. 03/02/2011

Aired: 2/3/2011

Topical debate from Workington with a panel of prominent public figures and an invited audience, chaired by David Dimbleby. The panel includes Immigration Minister Damian Green, Shadow Education Secretary Andy Burnham, former Labour MP Clare Short, Daily Mail columnist Melanie Phillips and economist Dr Noreena Hertz.

5. 10/02/2011

Aired: 2/10/2011

David Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Bristol, with a panel of prominent public figures and an invited audience. The panel includes the Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude MP, former Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell MP, former home secretary Jacqui Smith, the senior editor of the New Statesman Mehdi Hasan and author and journalist Douglas Murray.

6. 17/02/2011

Aired: 2/17/2011

David Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Barking in east London, with a panel of prominent public figures and an invited audience. The panel includes the Business Secretary Vince Cable MP, shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper MP, UKIP leader Nigel Farage MEP, the former Conservative deputy prime minister Lord Michael Heseltine and businesswoman and entrepreneur Victoria Barnsley.

7. 24/02/2011

Aired: 2/24/2011

David Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Newport, with a panel of prominent public figures and an invited audience. The panel includes Liberal Democrat politician Baroness Shirley Williams, Secretary of State for Wales and Conservative MP Cheryl Gillan, shadow Welsh Secretary and Labour MP Peter Hain and Plaid Cymru MP Elfyn Llwyd. The panel will also include journalist Janet Street-Porter and editor of The Spectator Fraser Nelson.

8. 03/03/2011

Aired: 3/3/2011

David Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Derby, with a panel of prominent public figures and an invited audience. The panel includes work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith MP, Labour MP and former foreign secretary Margaret Beckett, former UN deputy secretary general Lord Malloch Brown, historian David Starkey and economist and journalist Liam Halligan.

9. 10/03/2011

Aired: 3/10/2011

David Dimbleby chairs a topical debate in front of an invited studio audience. He is joined in Edinburgh by Michael Moore MP, Douglas Alexander MP, Annabel Goldie MSP, Patrick Harvie MSP, Nicola Sturgeon MSP and Nick Ferrari.

10. 17/03/2011

Aired: 3/17/2011

David Dimbleby is joined by the Conservative Party Chairman Sayeeda Warsi, the shadow justice minister Chris Bryant and the Liberal Democrat deputy leader Simon Hughes. The panel also includes the Green Party leader and MP Caroline Lucas and the journalist and broadcaster Kelvin MacKenzie.

11. 24/03/2011

Aired: 3/24/2011

David Dimbleby chairs the topical debates in front of an invited studio audience, with Danny Alexander, Niall Ferguson, Bianca Jagger, Ken Livingstone, Rory Stewart joining him on the panel.

12. 31/03/2011

Aired: 3/31/2011

David Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from east London, with a panel of prominent public figures and an invited audience. The panel includes the Minister of State for Children and Families Sarah Teather MP, Mayor of London Boris Johnson, Shadow Minister for Public Health Diane Abbott MP, General Secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union Mark Serwotka and writer and broadcaster Clive Anderson.

13. 07/04/2011

Aired: 4/7/2011

David Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Oxford in front of an invited studio audience, with a panel of guests from the world of politics. The panel includes the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport Jeremy Hunt MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government Caroline Flint MP and Liberal Democrat MP Jo Swinson, as well as Labour peer and broadcaster Professor Lord Winston and actor Simon Callow.

14. 14/04/2011

Aired: 4/14/2011

David Dimbleby is joined in Liverpool by Energy Secretary Chris Huhne, Shadow Welsh Secretary Peter Hain, former Conservative leader Michael Howard, Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond and journalist Cristina Odone.

15. 05/05/2011

Aired: 5/5/2011

David Dimbleby is joined in London by the Transport Secretary Philip Hammond and the shadow education secretary Andy Burnham. The panel also includes the former leader of the Liberal Democrats, Lord Ashdown, the journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and the neo-conservative author and the director for the centre of social cohesion, Douglas Murray.

16. 12/05/2011

Aired: 5/12/2011

The programme comes from Sheffield, where the panel includes Anna Soubry, Vince Cable, David Blunkett, Max Mosley and James O'Brien. David Dimbleby chairs.

17. 19/05/2011

Aired: 5/19/2011

David Dimbleby chairs the topical debate show from Wormwood Scrubs Prison in west London with an invited audience. The panel includes Justice Secretary, Ken Clarke; former Home Secretary, Jack Straw; columnist Melanie Phillips; and the director of human rights organisation Liberty, Shami Chakrabarti.

18. 26/05/2011

Aired: 5/26/2011

David Dimbleby is joined by Foreign Office Minister Jeremy Browne MP, Conservative MP and novelist Louise Bagshawe and Labour MP Hilary Benn. The panel also includes Britain's former Ambassador to the United States Sir Christopher Meyer and media lawyer Charlotte Harris.

19. 02/06/2011

Aired: 6/2/2011

David Dimbleby chairs Question Time from Wrexham where he is joined on the panel by Liberal Democrat MP Stephen Dorrell, columnist Julia Hartley-Brewer, author Simon Jenkins, Labour MP Alan Johnson, and Plaid Cymru MP Elfyn Llwyd.

20. 09/06/2011

Aired: 6/9/2011

David Dimbleby chairs Question Time from Norwich where he's joined on the panel by Labour MP Charles Clarke, feminist icon Germaine Greer, right-wing columnist Peter Hitchens, Conservative MP Andrew Mitchell, and Liberal Democrat MP Jo Swinson.

21. 16/06/2011

Aired: 6/16/2011

Panellists: Margaret Curran, Michael Forsyth, Tom Hunter, Michael Moore, Alex Salmond.

22. 23/06/2011

Aired: 6/23/2011

Panellists: Norman Baker, Fern Britton, David Mitchell, John Redwood, Rachel Reeves.

23. 30/06/2011

Aired: 6/30/2011

Topical debate from Birmingham with a panel of prominent public figures and an invited audience, chaired by David Dimbleby The panel: Philip Hammond MP; John Denham MP; Polly Toynbee; Sir Richard Lambert, former Head of the CBI; Christine Blower, Gen Sec NUT.

24. 07/07/2011

Aired: 7/7/2011

David Dimbleby chairs the topical debate programme from Basingstoke. On the panel: the actor Hugh Grant; Employment Minister Chris Grayling; Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander; Liberal Democrat peer Baroness Shirley Williams; and the radio presenter and former Sun columnist Jon Gaunt with an invited audience.

25. Riot Special

Aired: 8/11/2011

In a week when riots have spread from Tottenham across London and now other major UK cities, and the Prime Minister and Mayor of London have cut short their holidays to deal with the crisis, Question Time returns for a special edition. David Dimbleby chairs a panel of politicians and public figures as they take questions from the audience on what sparked the rioting, the police response and how to deal with the root causes of the unrest. The panel includes founder of children's charity Kids Company, Camila Batmanghelidjh; Conservative MP David Davis; journalist Fraser Nelson; police officer Brian Paddick; Labour MP John Prescott; and Anglican bishop John Sentamu.

26. 08/09/2011

Aired: 9/8/2011

Question Time returns for a new series with a special programme - ten years on from the September 11 attacks. On the panel: Defence Secretary Liam Fox, former Foreign Secretary David Miliband, the leading advocate of regime change in Iraq Richard Perle, anti-war campaigner Tariq Ali, American-born playwright Bonnie Greer and Christina Schmidt, whose husband Olaf, a British Army bomb disposal expert, was killed in Afghanistan. Chaired by David Dimbleby from London.

27. 15/09/2011

Aired: 9/15/2011

David Dimbleby chairs Question Time from Londonderry in Northern Ireland. On the panel are Labour MP Diane Abbott; Owen Paterson, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland; Ian Paisley, Junior MP of the DUP; Sinn Féin MP Martina Anderson; barrister Nigel Dodds; and investment fund manager Nicola Horlick.

28. 22/09/2011

Aired: 9/22/2011

As the Liberal Democrats' party conference draws to a close, David Dimbleby chairs Question Time from Birmingham, with a panel of guests including business secretary Vince Cable, Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman and Conservative MP Priti Patel, as well as Private Eye editor Ian Hislop and Justine Roberts, co-founder of Mumsnet.

29. 29/09/2011

Aired: 9/29/2011

David Dimbleby chairs Question Time from the Labour Party conference in Liverpool. On the panel are Grant Shapps, housing minister; Tim Farron, president of the Liberal Democrats; Caroline Flint, shadow communities and local government secretary; journalist and broadcaster Janet Street-Porter; and columnist and commentator Peter Oborne.

30. 06/10/2011

Aired: 10/6/2011

As the Conservative party conference draws to a close, Question Time comes from Salford. On the panel are: Conservative Party Chairman Baroness Warsi, Labour's Shadow Education Secretary Andy Burnham, Liberal Democrat MP Charles Kennedy, Sun columnist Jane Moore and the musician and campaigner Billy Bragg. Chaired by David Dimbleby.

31. 13/10/2011

Aired: 10/13/2011

From London, David Dimbleby is joined by Andrew Lansley, Ken Livingstone, Sarah Sands, Dr Phil Hammond and Mark Littlewood from the Institute of Economic Affairs.

32. 20/10/2011

Aired: 10/20/2011

David Dimbleby chairs the debate from Glasgow. On the panel are: Alistair Carmichael MP, Deputy Chief Whip; Brian Cox, actor; Margaret Curran MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland; Jacob Rees-Mogg MP, Conservative MP; Mike Russell MSP, Scottish Education Secretary; and Cristina Odone, Daily Telegraph Columnist.

33. 27/10/2011

Aired: 10/27/2011

David Dimbleby chairs the debate from Winchester, with a panel including Downton Abbey writer and creator Julian Fellowes; Iain Duncan Smith, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions; Gloria De Piero, Shadow Home Office Minister; Jo Swinson, Liberal Democrat MP, and Nigel Farage, leader of UKIP.

34. 03/11/2011

Aired: 11/3/2011

For the first time in the programme's history, Question Time comes from the Houses of Parliament. David Dimbleby chairs a panel including Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls, Home Secretary Theresa May, Lib Dem peer Shirley Williams, poet Benjamin Zephaniah and the Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens.

35. 10/11/2011

Aired: 11/10/2011

Question Time is in Newcastle this week. The panel includes: Michael Moore, Secretary of State for Scotland; Rachel Reeves, Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury; Nadine Dorries, Conservative MP; Stephen Pollard, editor of the Jewish Chronicle; and Professor Colin Blakemore. Chaired by David Dimbleby.

36. 17/11/2011

Aired: 11/17/2011

David Dimbleby chairs Question Time from Aberystwyth. On the panel are: Labour MP Chris Bryant, economist Will Hutton, journalist Simon Jenkins, Plaid Cymru member Elin Jones, and Conservative MP Grant Shapps.

37. 24/11/2011

Aired: 11/24/2011

Question Time comes from Bath. On the panel are energy secretary Chris Huhne, Sainsbury's chief executive Justin King, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, shadow minister for older people Liz Kendall and Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan.

38. 01/12/2011

Aired: 12/1/2011

David Dimbleby chairs Question Time from Dagenham. The panel includes: Ken Clarke, Justice Secretary; Chuka Umunna, Shadow Business Secretary; Mary Bousted, head of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers; David Frum, former speechwriter to President George W. Bush; and Deborah Meaden, businesswoman.

39. 08/12/2011

Aired: 12/8/2011

David Dimbleby chairs Question Time from Stoke-on-Trent, with panellists including Labour MP Tristram Hunt, Conservative MP Claire Perry, the chief executive of Next Lord Wolfson, Mehdi Hasan of the New Statesman and the author and barrister Constance Briscoe.