The BBC is looking for audiences from Swindon to take part in the BBC Radio 4 current affairs series, Any Questions when it visits the town in September.

The programme will be broadcast live to the nation from Christ Church in Old Town on Friday, September 27, two minutes after the conclusion of the 8pm news.

It will then run for around three-quarters of an hour.

Presenting the current affairs programme will be veteran BBC correspondent Jonathan Dimbleby, who has been in the hot seat since 1987.

The programme, usually aired on Friday evenings and repeated on Saturday afternoons has visited Swindon before, coming to Swindon College in June 1997.

On that occasion, Jonathan Dimbleby led guests including, Cecil Parkinson the then leader of the Commons, Ann Taylor MP, Liberal Democrat deputy leader Alan Beith and Helena Kennedy QC, who discussed a number of topics, including NHS charges and the role of public opinion in determining criminal sentences.

Currently the show is taking a well-earned summer break and returns in September.

It is not yet known who will be the panellists in the programme but the show attracted a number of high-profile guests in the last series, including former chancellor Norman Lamont. The programme also features various MPs from political parties as well as journalists and columnists from the national newspapers.

The show works rather like the BBC's Question Time television programme, the only difference being that the questions are selected by the producer, and out of the many sent in, only around six or seven questions are chosen.

The panellists do not get to see the questions before the broadcast so there is no preparation for the four panellists.

The Any Questions broadcast will mark the start of a busy weekend for the church, with the show taking place on Friday and the Autumn Bazaar on the Saturday.

For more information on how to take part and be a member of the audience, call the event organiser, Rosemary Earle on Swindon 523910