Question Time

[anotheoldgit]

Can anyone understand the BBC's decision to broadcast last night's Question Time from Johannesburg, South Africa?

[craft1948]

Probably because the majority of the BBC staff were out there anyway....

[jim360]

Wasn't there some news coming out of South Africa recently? I don't know, someone apparently died I think...

[ludwig]

I think it's been in the news lately.

[ludwig]

I didn't see it. Did they have a bloke in the corner signing for the deaf?

[trt]

I usually watch it every week, but gave it a miss when I read about the location and the topic.

No disrespect to Mandela, but I have seen and read enough about him the past week, lets move on!

[Everhelpful]

As I have said before,Money is no object when it is not your own!!

[emmie]

i rarely watch it these days, questions are rarely answered concisely and the panels often not up to the task of decent debate. Why in SA, perhaps because half the BBC staff were out there...

[boxtops]

Is Dimbleby commentating on the state funeral on Sunday?

[Postdog]

Total waste of money if you ask me. Total waste of money even if you don't ask me. Someone died, end of, move on.

[baza]

I was watching the ITV news a couple of days ago, one bloke who normally sits in the studio was in South Africa. He then said and here is Joe Bloggs our african reporter, who was standing alongside him. If the ITV can waste just think how much more the BBC can spend.
Just because someone dies it does not need this overkill in you will pardon the pun.

[FredPuli43]

Was the programme wholly or mainly about where South Africa is going now, what its future appears to be ? That's the impression I got from the trailer. If that's right, and the chairman, Dimbleby, was out there already for the memorial and the funeral,which is yet to take place, it makes perfect sense.

[Caribeing]

140 BBC staff out there had to do something to pass the time!

[ludwig]

// Total waste of money if you ask me. Total waste of money even if you don't ask me. Someone died, end of, move on. //

That's probably what that bloke was signing at the memorial service.

[ichkeria]

I can understand it and don't have a problem with it.
However in all honesty - and to my shame - I switched off, as I am not, personally, all that interested in South Africa. Others doubtless are.

Tonight's Any Questions had an all Asian panel. Just waiting for the flak to start flying about that :-)

[Svejk]

The ANC lady was scary. When she said the people who booed at Zuma would be 'rounded up and dealt with', I believed it.

[anotheoldgit]

I would have thought we have enough questions to ask in this country without kow Towing to the south Africans.

Where will it be next week, North Korea?

[johnny37]

or send John Humphries to report for Today, plus John Simpson and many others no doubt.

[THECORBYLOON]

In what way is the BBC kowtowing to South Africa? Is there any suggestion the BBC was asked to stage the programme there?

[emmie]

may not be kowtowing, but why send so many staff there, a freebie on the taxpayer.