Topical discussion on the issues of the day with a panel of politicians and commentators will be heard live from Bridport.

Radio 4's Any Questions? programme will broadcast in front of a live audience at the Electric Palace on Friday, July 8.

Those wishing to get a seat will be disappointed however - it's already sold out.

Hosted by BBC News political editor Chris Mason, the panel - which includes personalities from the worlds of politics, media and elsewhere - are posed questions by the audience.

The panel for the Bridport event includes the Green peer Baroness Jenny Jones and the Minister for Brexit Opportunities and Government efficiency Jacob Rees-Mogg MP.

Any Questions? was first broadcast on Friday 12th October 1948; for the first 18 months it was a West of England Home Service programme, run from Bristol. It moved to London in April 1950, but after 61 years in the capital, it returned to the production offices in Bristol in 2011.

Any Questions? is broadcast live on Radio 4 on most Friday evenings of the year following the 8pm news. The programme is repeated on Saturday lunchtimes at 1.10pm, and is followed at 2pm by the Any Answers? phone-in which gives listeners a chance to join in the debate by calling or e-mailing Anita Anand.

The programme travels throughout the UK, and occasionally to Europe, at the invitation of local organisations.

The audience submits questions on the day of the broadcast and these are then sifted by the producer who selects ten questions across a range of subjects. Normally, four to six of them are included in the actual broadcast.

One of the stringent and unchanging rules of Any Questions? is that the panel never sees the questions in advance; the panellists hear them for the first time at the same moment the audience in the hall and at home does.