The BBC’s flagship topical debate programme is making a return to the Medway Towns.

Question Time is set to be hosted in Gillingham next Thursday (January 25).

The popular 45-minute show will be broadcast on BBC One at 10.45pm and is set to feature presenter Fiona Bruce in the chair.

Question Time features politicians, journalists, comedians and other well-known TV personalities, fielding questions from the audience.

Those who have applied have been told they will be contacted next Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday as to whether they will be watching from the studio.

Audience members have been asked to come up with two questions to be considered for the programme.

Question Time last came to Kent in May last year when Fiona Bruce chaired the programme in Gravesend.

It was also hosted from Canterbury in April 2022, with the last airing in Gillingham coming from MidKent College back in 2014 when David Dimbleby was still the host.

It is not known if the site will be broadcasting next week's show again.

Previous episodes have also been filmed at The Quarterhouse theatre in Folkestone in 2016, just before the EU referendum, and twice in Canterbury – at the Gulbenkian Theatre in 2014, when controversial comedian Russell Brand and UKIP leader Nigel Farage were both on the panel, and again at the Malthouse Theatre in Canterbury in April 2022, when the city’s Archbishop joined in.

One episode was unusually filmed from Terminal 1 at Dover Western Docks in March 2018 and featured Keir Starmer and actor Brian Cox.

Another was filmed later the same year at the Mick Jagger Centre in Dartford.

Panelists for next week’s show are expected to be revealed in the days leading up to the programme.

Filming for tonight’s show (January 18) took place in Peterborough.

The BBC has been approached for more information.