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TV’s Question Time to boost Shrewsbury’s image
Tuesday 17th January 2012, 9:00PM GMT.
BBC1’s Question Time will help to put Shrewsbury on the map when the show visits the town this week, it was claimed today.
The town’s multi-million pound Theatre Severn has been named as the venue for Thursday night’s Question Time debate, which will be broadcast at 10.35pm from the venue’s Walker Theatre. The show will be recorded at about 8.30pm. The guests will be named tomorrow.
The panel usually includes top politicians and television personalities.
Peter Nicholson, theatre manager, said the venue had been chosen following an assessment of its suitability by show producers.
He said staff were delighted to be welcoming David Dimbleby and his panel and claimed it would boost the profile of the town.
Mr Nicholson said today: “We approached the producers of Question Time in November and following a successful site visit, the BBC agreed that the Walker Theatre would provide an ideal venue for the show.
“We are delighted to be hosting the debate and hope the event will provide a boost for the national profile of Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury and Shropshire as a whole.”
Town business leaders have hailed the news as ‘fantastic’ for the town and Daniel Kawczynski, MP for Shrewsbury and Atcham, said he lobbied the show’s producers 12 months ago to bring the show to the town.
He has urged people to participate and said it was a great opportunity for Shrewsbury to raise some important issues affecting the town including farming and flooding.
Question Time, which discusses the important local and national political issues of the week, was first broadcast in 1979.
Each year, some 30,000 members of the public apply to join the debate by being in the studio audience.
The programme last came to the town on March 25, 2004 when the former Shrewsbury Music Hall hosted the event.
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