Question Time

To stop Parliament thread getting clod up here is a new one for this.

Its very strange how its seems to be much more strict format, with not a lot of people getting to ask there own questions and give the people a Much rougher time

Was in 1980/1981 with the problems in the uk that people really started to put to be boat into the panel.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/playlive/bbc_parliament/

Is this 1979 or 1879? "Corporal punishment encourages learning in schools" says someone and gets a smattering of applause. Fascinating all the same.

No wonder that Tory bloke lost his seat, in scotland

but it is very interesting that even in 1979 some people still had this view. its still does not librarated, when did the show really kick off?

What did you expect people would think in 1979?? Corporal punishment wasn't even outlawed until 1987.

Interesting to note though that most of what was said in 1979 on the episode of Question Time repeated tonight on BBC Parliament still rings true in 2009.

Claims of animal cruelty still wind everybody up. Full employment is never going to happen in any way, shape or form under any government. The maternity leave issue continues today albeit wrapped up as paternity leave. Thank goodness that stuff about public libraries becoming basically "pay as you loan" never came to fruition, it'd be shot down in flames in the present day.

The corporal punishment thing though, yes, we were still waving canes around as "late" as 1987 when half of Europe had outlawed it years before. I don't really wish to spark off an entire debate around corporal punishment suffice to say it still goes on mainstream in America, where teenagers do bunches of illegal stuff in states than ban it and states that haven't. But yes, Question Time in 1979, nobody apart from the youth, ironically enough, was going to stand up and state they wanted it banned before the end of the 1980s.

I still cannot forget the Not the 9 O'Clock News p*sstake of Question Time, quite a good sketch that was and one line sticks out in my mind...

Three million people will die.... unemployed.

What I found facinating about this show, was compared to today, how early in the show what you would class as a 'light' question turned up. "What is the panels biggest vice?" was the third question on the show!

You tried asking that one today, and Dimbleby would tell you to shut up and go to a question about the upcoming Slovakia general election or something of equal importance.

I loved the fact the audience were "oh so polite" with often thanking "Mr Day" before asking their questions.

Nowadays the audience is usually full of university students and sweaty fat bald men throwing their fists at Harriet Harman!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00mwx76/Question_Time_25_09_2009/

Interestingly it's available on the iPlayer for the next year, are any other programmes like that?

From the Question Time website:



That being said, I was surprised the first Question Time show with Robin Day was going to be on the iPlayer at all, never mind be available for an entire year! Somebody even went to the trouble of adding on-the-fly Subtitles to the BBC Parliament transmission, though they don't seem to have made it to the iPlayer. Shame it has the wrong picture and ident though.