I quite like her but I have this horrid feeling she has got the Question Time gig, succeeding my old school mate Dimbleby, because she's female. At least she's competent.

QT will have even more of a liberal bias.


They should have a real Irish man on there.

JK2006 wrote:
I quite like her but I have this horrid feeling she has got the Question Time gig, succeeding my old school mate Dimbleby, because she's female. At least she's competent.

I suppose Holly Willoughby was busy?

Laura Keunsbourg would have been great, I'm sure her time will come. I don't even like the programme, it is full of planted party members and un-knowlegeable people asking dumb questions. I would much rather watch people in the know like Andrew Marr ask questions.

Question Time has shown its popularity in nearly 40 years of broadcasting - with just three presenters.

Day, Sissons and Dimbleby - with a few temporary ones from time to time.

Uniquely, the public gets the opportunity to ask direct questions - and to discuss the answers with politicians, journalists, industrialists etc.

The audience is selected almost randomly (from applicants) - with a monitoring process to ensure balance. Questions, likewise.

And it visits different parts of the country - whereas a large part of radio/TV programs emanate from London or Salford.

It's hard to see how it could be improved - and, hopefully, Ms Bruce will be as straight talking as her predecessors.

"A senior BBC source said Bruce performed superbly in the recent auditions. Her credentials as one of the most established and high-profile journalists on BBC One were also key."
www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-46486707

There seems to be a recurrent theme on this board that men are inherently superior to females, rather like Mercedes to females' Ford Fiesta.

Not from me, I suggested Laura Keunsburg.

Jo wrote:
"A senior BBC source said Bruce performed superbly in the recent auditions. Her credentials as one of the most established and high-profile journalists on BBC One were also key."
www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-46486707

There seems to be a recurrent theme on this board that men are inherently superior to females, rather like Mercedes to females' Ford Fiesta.

For broadcasting, nature has dealt us a blow by giving us (often) higher and softer voices, which dont seem to record as well as lower tones, sadly.


On the other hand, women (not me, it drives me loopy) are very often better at taking instructions from someone yelling in their ears while they are working.

Yes as I get older and deafer I simply can't hear those high voices; Screech on BBC Breakfast drives me crazy.

Voices and gender aren't relevant.

It's a combination of presence, gravitas, calmness, personality, demeanour, talent, quick-thinking and appearance.

Cronkite didn't have a great TV and radio voice - but most of America remembers him best.

For telling them (for example) of JFK's death, men on the moon - and that the Vietnam war was unwinnable.


As well as a man who would tell the truth - no matter what, and always ask the right questions.

Usually eliciting the true facts, on complex issues.


From the early 60s, Americans would switch Cronkite on first...