Question Time British National Party controversy is the flagship BBC Television political panel show, which began in 1979. The weekly show, hosted by David Dimbleby since 1994, takes place at locations around the country. Questions from a local audience are directed to a panel of invited guests, usually consisting of British politicians, alongside other public figures. The topics for debate during the programme are loosely defined by "set-piece" questions from pre-selected audience members. For each topic, the question is answered by each panel member in turn, followed by supplementary questions on the topic, time permitting. The show is pre-recorded a few hours before being broadcast, and
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