Box Office: 01379 652241

DISS • NORFOLK

BBC Radio 4 Any Questions

Venue: The Corn Hall
Date: Friday 20th June 2025
Doors open: 6.30pm
Doors close: 7.15pm
Tickets: FREE

BBC Panel Announcement: Alex Forsyth presents political debate from The Corn Hall in Diss in Norfolk with the Director and Chief Executive of the Chatham House think tank Bronwen Maddox, the Labour MP for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket Dr Peter Prinsley, the journalist and contributing editor of Novara Media Ash Sarkar and the Conservative MP for West Suffolk Nick Timothy.

BBC Radio 4's flagship political discussion programme is coming to The Corn Hall Diss on Friday 20th June 2025.

The programme was first broadcast in October 1948 and visits a different part of the UK every week with a panel of four speakers who answer questions from the audience, providing people with the opportunity to challenge politicians, policy makers, writers, and thinkers.

The panel is different each week and is broadcast LIVE on Radio 4 straight after the 8.00pm news bulletin. It's your chance to put your question to the panel.

Doors open at 6.30pm and close at 7.15pm. The programme will be broadcast live from 8-9pm. Entry is by ticket only. Please note there will be security checks on admittance to the venue. Recording and photography during the broadcast is not permitted.

There will be questions cards available to complete on arrival. We rely on questions from you to make the best programme, so please put in one or more! We will give you a copy of your question if it is selected for the programme and you must be prepared to ask it yourself on air.

Great questions do at least one of the following:- 
  • Are TOPICAL - think about what’s been in the news this week
  • REFLECT THE AREA we are in—ask about what matters to you!
  • Spark a GREAT DISCUSSION


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As a charity we rely on donations to help cover the cost of delivering our programme of exhibitions, events, our community activities such as our Dementia Café, Arts Award, Saturday Club, Tots Tuesdays, Start With Art, as well as supporting our core costs. We ask you to support The Corn Hall with a donation, so that we can continue to be a creative community hub for Diss. Whatever the donation, anything from £1 to £10,000, is support that The Corn Hall didn't have until you very kindly gave it to us. We offer you a very warm thank you.

Accessibility
We want to make your visit to The Corn Hall as enjoyable and comfortable as possible, so we have provided you with detailed information regarding accessibility in all areas of the theatre. If you have any questions, or to register on our Access Scheme to enable accessible seating, discounts and companion tickets, please do not hesitate to contact the Box Office, between 10am and 4pm Monday to Saturday on 01379 652241 or email boxoffice@thecornhall.co.uk We will soon be working with Nimbus Disability, a Social Enterprise that has received international recognition for its Access Card Scheme. For more info on how to book access tickets online, take a look here: https://app.accesscard.online/apply/access-card/form/. We have a limit on how many wheelchair spaces we can safely accommodate therefore these need to be reserved in advance by contacting the Box Office.