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
Jack Waley-Cohen "Defectors", presented by Richard Orford. In 2008, he competed on the BBC Four lateral thinking quiz "Only Connect", and his team – the Lapsed Psychologists – made it to the final of the first series, where they lost to the Crossworders. In 2014, he became a senior question writer on "Only Connect" and in 2017 took over from Alan Connor as Question Editor (alongside David McGaughey). In January 2017 Waley-Cohen appeared on BBC Radio 4's "The Museum of Curiosity"; his hypothetical donation to this imaginary museum was "A Book of Tom Swifties". Waley-Cohen was a director of UK translation company