Any Questions? is a British topical discussion programme "in which a panel of personalities from the worlds of politics, media, and elsewhere are posed questions by the audience". It is typically broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Fridays at 8 pm and repeated the following day at 1:10 pm. Any Questions? is also available on BBC Sounds. Origins and scheduling Any Questions? was first broadcast in October 1948, beginning as a fortnightly programme on the West of England Home Service and was originally intended to run for six editions only. It became a weekly programme in September 1949, broadcast live in the West Region on Friday evenings with a national repeat transmission on the Home Service up to six days later. This pattern changed in September 1950 when the live Friday broadcast was switched to the BBC Light Programme (BBC Radio 2 from October 1967), although the discussion still came from venues in the West of England and the programme continued to be repeated later on the Home Service (BBC Radio 4 from October 1967). On 10 April 1970, the Friday broadcast moved to Radio 4, which has broadcast both the live and the recorded editions of Any Questions? ever since. Presenters Any Questions? was chaired by Freddie Grisewood from 1948 to 1967, by David Jacobs from 1967 to 1984, by John Timpson from 1984 to 1987 and by Jonathan Dimbleby from 1987 to 2019. In March 2019, Dimbleby announced that he would "stand down... at the end of June". Shaun Ley, Ritula Shah, Ed Stourton and Julian Worricker served as interim moderators. In October 2019, Chris Mason was announced as Dimbleby's successor. Following Mason's appointment as political editor of BBC News in 2022, it was announced that Alex Forsyth would succeed him as regular presenter from November 2022. Venues Any Questions? is broadcast from a different location each week. Among others, Any Questions? has broadcast from educational institutions, performing arts venues, and religious and government buildings, including: Rugby's Ashlawn School Birmingham Repertory Theatre Chichester's Bishop Luffa School Runcorn's Bolingbroke Academy Bridlington Priory Brockenhurst College Weybridge's Brooklands College Peterborough's Bushfield Academy Aberystwyth's Ceredigion Museum Coventry Cathedral Crickhowell High School Falmouth University Giggleswick School Bath's Hayesfield Girls' School Cardiff's Hoddinott Hall London's Lady Margaret School Leeds Minster Horsforth's Leeds Trinity University Manchester Metropolitan University Middlesbrough Town Hall Oxford Town Hall Sevenoaks School Sheffield Cathedral St John's Wood Church University of Aberdeen