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
Question Time British National Party controversy "it's a colourless landscape that will suit you fine". Klare said that while he did not think so at first, in retrospect he thought that "Question Time" was the right platform for Griffin. Analysing the broadcast footage, "The Times" determined that the cameras spent "nearly 25 minutes" of the hour-long programme of the screen time either on Griffin or a "two-shot" with him and another panellist, equating to 38%. The "Daily Mail" alleged that the BBC "stage-managed" the programme, highlighting a crib-sheet handed out to the audience members; "The Guardian"'s 'Media Monkey' blog observed that such a sheet is routinely