Moment BBC Question Time thrown into chaos as siren-blaring protest drowns out studio guests

The Independent

Question Time was brought to a chaotic end on Thursday night (20 March) after noise from a protest at the University of Reading threatened to drown out audience members and panel guests.

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00:00Utilities historically have paid dividends, but if they're boring and regulated well, they should, but make it boring.

00:08But the board and the management has been an utter disaster.

00:11But the regulation was too weak was the problem.

00:13Yes, I would agree.

00:14So changing the regulation.

00:15Yes, you. For me.

00:16Yes.

00:17Oh, yes. I'm a keen sailor. I'm a bit rubbish though.

00:20I'm a proud member of Goring Thames Sailing Club and we sail on the Thames.

00:27Can I just say, in answer to your question, you should say to those children, no, the water is absolutely not safe.

00:33I live on the River Thames and I see on a daily basis human excrement go past my property.

00:39So the answer is a definitive no.

00:42I just, before we go, we can all hear in here.

00:45If you can hear at home, there's a protest going on outside about something, I'm not sure what.

00:48There's lots of sirens blaring.

00:50Several notes.

00:51But anyway, anyway.

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