Questions, but no answers

Jonathan Dimbleby, host of Radio 4's Any Questions? and Any Answers?, is apparently looking to reclaim leisure time on Saturdays, and drop the second show - which he's presented since 1988.

The hunt is one for someone to present the public responses bit, which follows the Saturday lunchtime repeat of Any Questions? - and the smart money is on a woman.  (As with a range of BBC vacancies...)

Exactly how much leisure time this will free up for 67-year-old JD is unclear. Currently he hosts a good number of Any Answers? down the line from his Devon farmhouse. Last year the connection failed, and Jonathan was on the phone like most of his contributors.

• Any Questions? started as a regional programme in the West of England in 1948, with Freddy Grisewood. As far as I can tell, Any Answers? first appeared in 1967, when Malcolm Muggeridge was the host for the launch of Radio 2. There are people who will correct me...