Question Time (TV programme) being taken off the air, and the death of an audience member who collapsed while recording. The programme continued to enjoy good ratings during this period, notably on the day of Margaret Thatcher's resignation on 22 November 1990, which featured two different panels over two editions. David Dimbleby was chosen to succeed Peter Sissons as the programme’s presenter in 1994, after the BBC decided to hold two pilot show auditions between Dimbleby and Jeremy Paxman with two different audiences and two different panels. For a brief period under Dimbleby’s chairmanship in the mid-1990s there were a number of variations to
Gardeners' Question Time by the death of long-serving chairman Franklin Engelmann just days earlier. The format and panel remained largely unchanged for many years. In 1994 the complete panel left the BBC and moved to the new Classic FM station on a short-term contract to present "Classic Gardening Forum", sponsored by The Cheltenham and Gloucester Building Society. In 2009 the production of the show was taken over by the UK's largest independent radio production company Somethin' Else. In December 2009 panellist John Cushnie died suddenly. The programme's audience figures continue to perform strongly as confirmed by the official audience measurement body, RAJAR. The