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The BBC panel show that invites audience members to ask questions to politicians, business people and journalists will take place in the town on Thursday, November 14. The recording of the TV programme was originally scheduled to take place earlier this year on Thursday, June 13. However, it was postponed due to the general election, which was announced by then Prime Minister Rishi Sunak just weeks before filming on May 22.
A spokesperson for the BBC told the earlier this year: "We are still hoping to come to Basingstoke and will keep you updated." Presenter Fiona Bruce confirmed that the show will come back to the town at the end of the episode broadcast on Thursday, October 31 where a group of panellists discussed the Labour budget delivered the day prior. She told the audience: "I just want to say where we're gonna be next week in case you'd like to come and be part of the audience and put in your opinion.
"We're off to Hartlepool in North East England next week, and the week after that we're in Basingstoke, in Hampshire." It's not the first time the show has been filmed in Basingstoke. Question Time came to the Anvil in October 2013 when the panel included former Shadow Education Secretary Tristram Hunt MP and the former leader of the Liberal Democrats, Charles Kennedy MP.
It was also filmed in the town in July 2011, when more than 3.6million people tuned into the programme with actor Hugh Grant, who complained about privacy intrusion by the tabloid press. To apply to be part of the audience visit.
