Questions of the moment put by members of the audience are discussed spontaneously by: Ralph Wightman
R. H. S. Crossman, M.P .
Quintin Hogg
(Viscount Hailsham)
Dr. J. Bronowski
Travelling Question-Master,
Freddy Grisewood
From the Victoria Rooms, Bristol
Produced by Nicholas Crocker
(Home)
Ralph Wightman, born in Dorset, is a frequent member of The * Any Questions? ' team. He is a well-known broadcaster on matters dealing with agriculture and the countryside.
R. H. S. Crossman, Member of Parliament (Labour) for Coventry East, was educated at Winchester and Oxford. He has been Assistant Editor of The New Statesman and Nation since 1938. During the war he organised psychological warfare against Germany, and was one of the BBC's leading speakers in German.
Quintin Hogg, who recently succeeded his father Lord Hailsham, was Member of Parliament (Conservative) for Oxford. Educated at Eton and Oxford, where he was President of the Union, he was later called to the Bar. In the last weeks of the Coalition he was appointed Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Air, a post which he also held in the ' Care-taker ' Government. His books deal with legal and political affairs.
Dr. J. B. Bronowski, educated at Jesus
College, Cambridge, started his career as a Lecturer in Mathematics at University College, Hull. During the war he worked as head of a series of mathematical and statistical units planning atomic bombing. Since 1947 he has been engaged in applying statistical research to the economics of industry, and is at present the Director of the Central Research Establishment of the National Coal Board. He has broadcast frequently and his latest contribu'ion to radio, a play dealing with the manifestations and motives of violence in modern society, was broadcast on Monday in the Home Service.