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Revision as of 22:08, 6 June 2006
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Host
Donald McCullough
Bernard Braden (1957)
Michael Flanders
Hugh Ross (1955-6)
Mary Ann Sieghart (1996)
Broadcast
BBC Home Service, 1 January 1941-45
Cinema films, 1942-3 (4 films)
BBC-tv, 1955-61?
Radio 3, 1994-5
BBC2, 1996
Synopsis
A panel answered questions sent in by listeners, and were expected to talk intelligently on any subject, no matter what it was.
About half-a-dozen questions were dealt with in each live 45-minute broadcast, and the producers selected the questions to play to the panel's strengths. The questions tended to raise matters of morality rather than fact, and while party politics were eschewed, international politics and religion were open for general discussion.
Trivia
Long before the show transferred to television, there was a version which was filmed and shown in cinemas. It was claimed to be the first completely unscripted and unrehearsed feature film. As far as we can tell there were four films in all, with the first one (in 1942) being a film of a radio show, and the other three (in 1943) made specially for the big screen.
Inventor
Howard Thomas
