Editing Question Time (TV programme) (section)

===David Dimbleby===
[[David Dimbleby]] succeeded Sissons as ''Question Time'' presenter in 1994, after the BBC held two pilot show auditions between Dimbleby and [[Jeremy Paxman]], with two different audiences and two different panels.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/dimbleby-provides-answer-for-question-time-1466997.html |title=Dimbleby provides answer for 'Question Time'|work=The Independent |date=12 December 1993 |access-date=7 September 2014 }}</ref> For a brief period under Dimbleby in the mid-1990s, there were a number of variations to the format, including the audience using voting keypads to take a poll of the audience at the end of the programme and Dimbleby getting out of his seat at intervals to question the audience.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/first-night-sure-footwork-from-dimbleby-question-time-bbc-television-1406768.html |title=First Night: Sure footwork from Dimbleby: 'Question Time', BBC Television |work=The Independent |date=14 January 1994 |access-date=7 September 2014}}</ref>

Dimbleby presented ''Question Time'' for 25 years, the programme's longest-serving presenter, until his final programme, aged 80, on 13 December 2018.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/david-dimbleby-question-time-last-episode-tonight-bbc-fiona-bruce-brexit-theresa-may-vote-a8681316.html |title=David Dimbleby to host his final ever episode of Question Time tonight |newspaper=The Independent |date=13 December 2018  |author=Anu Shukla}}</ref>