The BEST episodes of Question Time season 42
Every episode of Question Time season 42, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Question Time season 42!
Question Time is a topical debate BBC television programme in the United Kingdom, based on Any Questions?. The show typically features politicians from at least the three major political parties as well as other public figures who answer questions put to them by the audience. The independent production company Mentorn has made the programme for the BBC since 1998.
#1 - 30/01/2020
Season 42 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/30/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Buxton. On the panel: James Cleverly MP, chairman of the Conservative party, Conservative; Sarah Jones MP, shadow housing minister, Labour; Minette Batters, president of the National Farmers Union; Sacha Lord, cocreator of the Parklife Festival and the Warehouse Project and Greater Manchester’s night time economy adviser; and comedian, writer and political commentator, Geoff Norcott.
#2 - 06/02/2020
Season 42 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/6/2020
Fiona Bruce chairs an hour of topical debate from Harpenden. On the panel: Robert Buckland MP, secretary of state for justice, Conservative; Stella Creasy MP, Labour; Ed Davey MP, acting leader of the Liberal Democrats and former energy secretary in the coalition government; journalist and author of a book on the Middle East, Rachel Shabi; and actor, campaigner and TV presenter Adam Pearson.
#3 - 13/02/2020
Season 42 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/13/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Dundee. On the panel: Tom Tugendhat MP, chair of the foreign affairs select committee at Westminster, a Lieutenant Colonel in the Territorial Army until 2013, serving in both Iraq and Afghanistan, Conservative; Ian Murray MP, the last remaining Labour MP in Scotland and candidate for deputy leader of the Labour Party; Joanna Cherry MP, SNP justice and home affairs spokesperson at Westminster, and a leading litigant in the case against the UK government’s decision to prorogue Parliament, SNP; Val McDermid, bestselling, prize-winning crime writer; and Alex Massie, Scotland editor of the Spectator magazine.
#4 - 26/03/2020
Season 42 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/26/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate with questions from West London and live social media reaction. On the panel: Robert Jenrick MP, secretary of state for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Conservative; Emily Thornberry MP, shadow foreign secretary, Labour; Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of the medical journal The Lancet; and Humphrey Cobbold, chief executive officer of PureGym, the UK's leading gym provider.
#5 - 25/06/2020
Season 42 - Episode 24 - Aired 6/25/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate with an audience of voters under the age of thirty. Panellists include chief secretary to the Treasury Steve Barclay, shadow minister for domestic violence and safeguarding Jess Phillips, entrepreneur Theo Paphitis, founder of Young Money Iona Bain, and George Mpanga, better known as George the Poet.
#6 - 29/10/2020
Season 42 - Episode 31 - Aired 10/29/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate with an audience from Lincoln. On the panel: Chris Philp MP, Home Office minister, conservative; Nick Thomas-Symonds MP, shadow home secretary, Labour; Anthony Scaramucci, American financier, republican and former White House chief of communications under Donald Trump; Marie van der Zyl, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews; and Bonnie Greer, playwright, critic and broadcaster.
#7 - 05/11/2020
Season 42 - Episode 32 - Aired 11/5/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate with an audience from Lewisham, South London. On the panel, Oliver Dowden MP, secretary of state for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Conservative, Lisa Nandy MP, shadow foreign secretary, Labour, Hannah Fry, mathematician, author, TV and radio presenter and associate professor in the Mathematics of Cities at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL, Simon Wolfson, chief executive of fashion and homeware chain Next, and a Conservative peer, and Rose McGowan, activist and former Hollywood actor.
#8 - 16/01/2020
Season 42 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/16/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Liverpool. On the panel: Helen Whately MP, Culture Minister, Conservative; Shami Chakrabarti, Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales and a Labour peer, Labour; Alyn Smith MP, Westminster Shadow Spokesperson for International Affairs and Europe, SNP; Madeline Grant, Assistant Comment Editor, The Daily Telegraph; and Laurence Fox, actor and musician, best known for playing DC Hathaway in ITV's detective drama 'Lewis'.
#9 - 18/06/2020
Season 42 - Episode 23 - Aired 6/18/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate with an audience from Plymouth. On the panel: James Cleverly MP, former Conservative Party chairman, now minister for the Middle East and North Africa at the Foreign Office, Conservative; Lisa Nandy MP, shadow foreign secretary, Labour; Munira Wilson MP, Health and Social Care spokesperson for the Liberal Democrats; Steve Parish, businessman and chairman of Crystal Palace Football Club; and Jed Mercurio, former hospital doctor and writer of TV dramas such as Line of Duty, Bodyguard and Cardiac Arrest.
#10 - 10/12/2020
Season 42 - Episode 37 - Aired 12/10/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate with an audience from Chelmsford. Fiona Bruce presents topical debate with an audience from Chelmsford. Panellists include Robert Buckland MP, justice secretary and Lord high chancellor, Conservative, Wes Streeting MP, shadow schools minister, Labour; Malcolm Turnbull, former prime minister of Australia 2015-18 and twice leader of the Liberal Party in Australia; Anand Menon, Professor of European and foreign politics at King's College London and director of UK in a Changing Europe; and Julia Hartley-Brewer, Talkradio host and columnist.
#11 - 11/06/2020
Season 42 - Episode 22 - Aired 6/11/2020
Fiona Bruce presents topical debate with an audience from Cardiff. On the panel: Robert Buckland MP, justice secretary and lord high chancellor of Great Britain, Conservative; Vaughan Gething MS, health and social services minister in the Welsh government, Labour; Liz Saville Roberts MP, leader of Plaid Cymru at Westminster; Rocco Forte, founder of the Rocco Forte luxury hotel chain; and Bernardine Evaristo, author of several novels, including Girl, Woman, Other which won the Booker Prize and was listed by Barack Obama as one of his favourite novels of 2019.
#12 - 04/06/2020
Season 42 - Episode 21 - Aired 6/4/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate with a virtual audience from Southampton. On the panel: Nadhim Zahawi MP, minister for Business and Industry, Conservative; David Lammy MP, shadow Justice secretary, Labour; Donna Kinnair, chief executive and general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing; and Hugh Pennington, emeritus professor of bacteriology at the University of Aberdeen.
#13 - 28/05/2020
Season 42 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/28/2020
Fiona Bruce presents topical debate with an audience from Glasgow. Panellists include shadow secretary of state for Scotland Ian Murray, deputy first minister and education secretary for the Scottish government John Swinney, Scotland editor of The Spectator and columnist for The Times Alex Massie, Conservative Minister for Care Helen Whately, and director of international relations at the NHS Confederation Layla McCay.
#14 - 21/05/2020
Season 42 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/21/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate with questions from London and from social media. Panellists include justice minister Chris Philp, mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham, chief executive of Save the Children International and former Prime Minister of Denmark Helle Thorning-Schmidt, playwright and screenwriter James Graham and associate editor of the Daily Telegraph Camilla Tominey.
#15 - 09/04/2020
Season 42 - Episode 14 - Aired 4/9/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from West London, with audience questions from Uxbridge and live question and comments from social media. On the panel: secretary of state for Northern Ireland, Brandon Lewis; shadow chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and shadow minister for the cabinet office, Rachel Reeves; professor of experimental medicine at Imperial College and a member of the NERVTAG committee (New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats) advising government, Peter Openshaw; Scottish musician, social campaigner and winner of the 2018 Orwell Prize author Darren McGarvey; and actress, comedian, psychotherapist and author, Ruby Wax.
#16 - 02/04/2020
Season 42 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/2/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from West London, with audience questions from Rugby and live question and comments from social media. On the panel: Matt Hancock MP, health secretary, Conservative; Yvette Cooper MP, chair of the commons' home affairs select committee, former secretary of state for work and pensions under Gordon Brown, former shadow health Secretary, Labour; Dame Donna Kinnair, nurse and chief executive and general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing; and the archbishop of York, John Sentamu.
#17 - 20/02/2020
Season 42 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/20/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Weymouth. On the panel: George Eustice MP, secretary of state for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Conservative; Alison McGovern MP, chair of the Labour political organisation Progress, Labour; Howard Davies, chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland, former Director of the London School for Economics, and the first chairman of the Financial Services Authority; Ash Sarkar, journalist, commentator and contributing editor at Novara Media; and Michael Portillo, broadcaster and former Conservative politician.
#18 - 23/01/2020
Season 42 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/23/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate in Stoke Newington. On the panel: Theresa Villiers MP, secretary of state for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Conservative; Emily Thornberry MP, shadow foreign secretary and candidate for the Labour leadership, Labour; Trevor Phillips, businessman, broadcaster and campaigner on equality; Mike Barton, former chief constable of Durham Police; and deputy editor of the Sunday Times, Sarah Baxter.
#19 - 09/01/2020
Season 42 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/9/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Oxford. On the panel: Brandon Lewis MP, minister for security and deputy for EU Exit and No Deal preparation, Conservative; Clive Lewis MP, shadow minister for Sustainable Economics and a candidate for the leadership of the Labour Party, Labour; Max Hastings, author, military historian, former editor-in-chief of the Daily Telegraph and former editor of the Evening Standard; Miatta Fahnbulleh, Chief Executive of the New Economics Foundation; and Anne McElvoy, broadcaster and Senior Editor at The Economist.
#20 - 07/05/2020
Season 42 - Episode 17 - Aired 5/7/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from West London, with audience questions from Newcastle and from social media. On the panel: George Eustice MP, secretary of state for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Conservative; Nick Thomas-Symonds MP, shadow home secretary, Labour; Juergen Maier, industrialist and former chief executive of Siemans UK; Chris Hopson, chief executive, NHS Providers; and Afua Hirsch, writer, broadcaster, and author of a book on British identity - Brit(ish): on Race, Identity and Belonging.
#21 - 15/10/2020
Season 42 - Episode 29 - Aired 10/15/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate with an audience from Edinburgh. On the panel: Douglas Ross MP, leader of the Scottish Conservative Party, Conservative; Seema Malhotra MP, shadow employment minister, Labour; Kate Forbes MSP, finance secretary for the Scottish Government, SNP; Sir Ian Wood, businessman and philanthropist; Miriam Brett, economic advisor and commentator and former advisor to the SNP; and Sir Mark Walport, immunologist, former chief scientific advisor and a member of the government's scientific advisory body, Sage.
#22 - 19/11/2020
Season 42 - Episode 34 - Aired 11/19/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate with an audience from Windsor. On the panel are: former Conservative Party Chair and current minister at the Foreign Office, James Cleverly MP; Labour's Shadow Secretary for Trade, Emily Thornberry MP; former investment banker and SNP leader, Ian Blackford; journalist and Editor of The Spectator magazine, Fraser Nelson; and the Bishop of Dover, Reverend Rose Hudson-Wilkin.
#23 - 22/10/2020
Season 42 - Episode 30 - Aired 10/22/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate with an audience from Sedgefield. On the panel: Nicky Morgan, former secretary of state for Education and former culture secretary, now a Conservative peer, Conservative; Bridget Phillipson MP, shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, Labour; Joseph Stiglitz, US economist, former chief economist of the World Bank and winner of the Nobel Prize for economics; Anne Longfield, Children's Commissioner for England; and Stephen Fitzpatrick, founder and chief executive of OVO Energy, the UK's second largest energy supplier.
#24 - 08/10/2020
Season 42 - Episode 28 - Aired 10/8/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate with an audience from Coventry. On the panel: Gillian Keegan MP, minister for apprenticeships and skills, Conservative; Andy Burnham, mayor of Greater Manchester and former health secretary, Labour; Dame Donna Kinnair, general secretary and chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing; Yanis Varoufakis, economist, author and former finance minister of Greece; and Michael Portillo, television presenter and former Conservative MP and defence secretary.
#25 - 14/05/2020
Season 42 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/14/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate with live and pre-recorded questions, and comments from social media. On the panel: Stephen Barclay MP, chief secretary to the treasury, Conservative; Bridget Phillipson MP, shadow chief secretary to the treasury, Labour; Mick Cash, general secretary of rail, maritime and transport workers; Luke Johnson, entrepreneur, former chairman or owner of various restaurant and bar chains such as Pizza Express, Strada, and Patisserie Valerie; and Devi Sridhar, professor of global public health at Edinburgh University and a member of the Scottish government Covid-19 advisory group.