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The PMQ Show

The PMQ Show

  • Radio panel show
  • BBC Radio 5 Live
  • 2009
  • 1 pilot

Andy Parsons chairs the 'fast and furious' topical panel show with guest contestants competing to be the next Prime Minister. Stars Andy Parsons, Zoe Lyons, Simon Evans, Rod Liddle and Kelvin MacKenzie

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5 Live's controller risks playing it for laughs

The funny stuff will arrive in time for the festive season, a series of "Christmas treats", as Van Klaveren terms them. Parsons will be making a show called PMQ, in which he will play the Speaker and guests have to respond to given situations as if they were Gordon Brown, only in a humorous way. The controller hopes it will become a current affairs equivalent of Colin Murray's successful Fighting Talk, "which works brilliantly in terms of sport, but what we haven't got is a vehicle which is as strong in terms of news and topical events".

Ian Burrell, The Independent, 1st December 2008

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