Any Questions

[hellywelly4]

How is the audience selected for this programme? Does anyone know. Such a rowdy crowd today.

[dannyk13]

Info here:-
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/bbc-question-time-audience-application-process_uk_58aec9c2e4b057efdce946cc

[hellywelly4]

Thank you danny. That is 5 year's ago, though. Perhaps the selection board need to re-word the questionnaire!!!

[Atheist]

Danny's link is about Question Time on TV, not Any Questions on Radio 4.
I thought the audience was lively in a good-natured way. They seemed a decent crowd: they tended to approve of the speakers who I thought were honest, well-informed ans spoke well. I don't think they expressed loud disapproval at the occasional daft statement by the Tory/Boris supporter. I do feel sorry for some of the c-listers who have to turn up for public humiliation now that the real baddies are kept off the media.

[dannyk13]

Oops, wrong programme ,sorry.

[Atheist]

Danny; I suppose they try to keep audiences balanced on all these shows (well, the respectable ones). It must be hard to balance audiences when the wider public may be leaning strongly one way.