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
Krishnan Guru-Murthy Guru-Murthy's career began in 1988 on BBC2's "DEF II" discussion programme "Open to Question" and the youth current affairs programme "Reportage". While at Oxford University he presented BBC2's Asian current affairs programmes "East" and "Network East" and took over presenting and reporting for the BBC's children's news programme "Newsround" from 1991 to 1994. He then spent three years as a producer and reporter for BBC2's "Newsnight" and in 1997 became one of the launch presenters of the BBC's new rolling news channel BBC News 24, in the 12-4 pm slot. During his ten years at the BBC he also presented