Audience Figures
Audience figures for Question Time are usually around 2.7 million.
On 14 May 2009, Question Time recorded its highest viewing figures in its 30 year run over the MPs' expenses row, with audience members heckling guest panellists Menzies Campbell and Margaret Beckett, the Labour MP, who was booed by the audience for insisting that her expenses were her privilege. The TV audience reached 3.8 million.
3.4 million people watched in 2003 for the declaration of the war on Iraq.
The highest audience figures to date, however, were recorded when Nick Griffin of the BNP appeared in an episode on 22 October 2009; the audience reaching 7.9 million viewers.
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