For immediate release: Monday 20 August 2007

Any Questions? to be broadcast live from New Earswick, York

BBC Radio 4’s Any Questions? will be broadcast live from the New Earswick Folk Hall on Friday 5 October – 100 years to the day that the hall was officially opened by the Quaker philanthropist Joseph Rowntree.

Any Questions? – one of the BBC’s leading topical discussion programmes – gives the audience the chance to influence national debate by putting a question directly to a panel of four leading public figures. The panel never sees the questions in advance; they hear them for the first time at the same moment as the audience in the hall and at home.

Chaired by Jonathan Dimbleby, one of Britain’s best-known journalists and broadcasters, Any Questions? is broadcast live on Radio 4 on most Friday evenings of the year following the 8pm news. The programme is repeated on Saturday lunchtimes at 1.15pm, and is followed at 2pm by the Any Answers? phone-in which gives listeners a chance to join in the debate by calling or e-mailing Jonathan Dimbleby.

Any members of the public interested in joining the audience for the broadcast can ring 01904 615957 or email joanne.horler@jrf.org.uk to apply for tickets. The number of tickets is limited.

Notes to Editors:

1. Representatives from the local media are welcome to attend the event. Please contact Sue Everard (contact details below) to reserve a place.
2. New Earswick Folk Hall is managed by the New Earswick Community Association (NECA). Activities held there regularly include, yoga; tae kwon do; bridge, indoor bowls; tea dancing; and aerobics. Groups that meet there include New Earswick Musical Society; York Family History Society; Churches Together; and Mencap.

Issued by Sue Everard, JRF Media Relations Manager:
01904 615958 | sue.everard@jrf.org.uk