{"id":25074,"date":"2006-04-21T22:19:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-21T22:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/Abingdon2006\/2006\/04\/21\/any-questions-on-the-queens-80th-birthday\/"},"modified":"2006-04-21T22:19:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-21T22:19:00","slug":"any-questions-on-the-queens-80th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25074","title":{"rendered":"Any Questions on the Queens 80th Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06042106.jpg\" \/><br \/>The panel on tonights Any Questions program from Abingdon School were:<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06042107.jpg\" \/><br \/>   * Lord Heseltine: Why ever did the Tories not choose him for leader after Margeret Thatcher?<br \/>   * Sarah Bradford: Royal Historian and Biographer<br \/>   * (Dimbleby and producer)<br \/>   * Sir Jeremy Greenstock: The Former Ambassador to the UN\/Iraq who has written a book: the inside story about how we were misled to war. It has an embargo on it.<br \/>   * Jack Dromey: Labour Party Treasurer\/Deputy General Secretary of the TGWU who blew the whistle on Downing Streets questionable loans for honours system. <\/p>\n<p>The ticket said &#8220;You should arrive between 6.45 and 7.15pm&#8230; Please note: Photography is not permitted at the programme&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>There was a warm up lady who told us a little of the history of the program. It began in 1948. There have been 15000+ questions. The first ever question in 1948 was &#8220;What would be the effect on the country if more women gained political power.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We were told that as there were no cameras, nodding our heads would do no good, and so to make our feelings known we could clap. We were given a little training in expressing ourselves with claps. First we tried out a moderate clap, than an enthusiastic clap, and then an over the top clapping. After that we tried showing disapproval with muttering, then muttering louder, then snarling.<\/p>\n<p>The panel came out. We did Over-the-top clapping to which Jonathon Dimbleby said &#8220;Don&#8217;t strain yourselves&#8230;&#8221;, There followed a practise question to check sound levels before going on air. It was about what film or stage role they&#8217;d like to play. Lots of jokes around Michael Hesseltine&#8217;s former image as Tarzan.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway the program began with Jonathon Dimbleby announcing we were in Abingdon, it being the 450th anniversary of Abingdon&#8217;s charter&#8230; and the 750th anniversary of the founding of the first school in Abingdon, to which Abingdon school traces its lineage.<\/p>\n<p>But there was another anniversary today, reflected in the first and last questions. Happy 80th birthday to the Queen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The panel on tonights Any Questions program from Abingdon School were: * Lord Heseltine: Why ever did the Tories not choose him for leader after Margeret Thatcher? * Sarah Bradford: Royal Historian and Biographer * (Dimbleby and producer) * Sir Jeremy Greenstock: The Former Ambassador to the UN\/Iraq who has written a book: the inside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}