Q&A (American talk show)

Q&A
Genre	Talk show
Presented by	Susan Swain
Country of origin	United States
Original release
Network	C-SPAN
Release	December 12, 2004 (2004-12-12) – present
Related
Booknotes

Q&A is an American television series on the C-SPAN network. Each Q&A episode is a one-hour formal face-to-face interview with a notable person, originally hosted by C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb and currently hosted by co-CEO Susan Swain.[1][2] Typical guests on the show include journalists, politicians, authors, doctors and other public figures. C-SPAN’s criteria for guests is that they have a personal story and can teach the viewer something.[1]

Q&A airs on Sunday nights[2] at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. Eastern Time,[3] and the C-SPAN website features videos and transcripts of all past interviews.[2]

Production

Q&A premiered on Sunday, December 12, 2004. It replaced the program Booknotes, which Brian Lamb had hosted for 15 years previously. Whereas Booknotes featured interviews only with published authors,[1][4] the concept for Q&A as developed by Lamb was to interview noteworthy individuals from diverse backgrounds and learn about their achievements.[1]

The program's interviews are normally recorded in the studio space previously used for Booknotes, however other locations have been used. The first episode of Q&A was taped in the Knowledge Is Power Program Academy’s music hall,[1] and an interview with President George W. Bush was recorded in the White House Map Room.[5]

Guests

The first four guests to appear on Q&A were co-founder of the Knowledge Is Power Program Dave Levin,[1] Fox News president Roger Ailes, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute president Shirley Ann Jackson.[6] Guests since then have included former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee,[7] former CIA Director Michael V. Hayden,[8] President Bush in a shorter, 23-minute interview,[5] and Orlando Magic director of player development and founder of Democracy Matters, Adonal Foyle.[9] The American Historical Association has identified interviews with historians David M. Kennedy, Michael Korda, Andrew Ferguson and David McCullough, as well as Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales as "particularly interesting".[2]

See also

• Notable shows running on C-SPAN

References

1. John McArdle (December 6, 2004). "New Show, Familiar Format For C-SPAN". Roll Call. Retrieved September 28, 2010.
2. Elisabeth Grant (November 27, 2007). "C-SPAN's Q & A". AHA Today. American Historical Association. Retrieved October 4, 2010.
3. "Q&A". Q&A.org. National Cable Satellite Corporation. Retrieved October 4, 2010.
4. Marisa Guthrie (August 11, 2004). "'Booknotes' Near End Of Shelf Life". Daily News. Retrieved September 28, 2010.
5. Brooks Boliek (January 31, 2005). The Hollywood Reporter. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
6. Kenneth Aaron (December 29, 2004). "C-SPAN program gets behind the scenes with RPI president". The Times Union.
7. "Governor is quizzed by C-SPAN Presidential talk premature, he says". Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. February 14, 2005.
8. Walter Pincus (April 15, 2007). "Hayden Works to Absorb New Hires at CIA". The Washington Post.
9. "Money matters; Foyle Learned Early to Give". San Jose Mercury News. March 5, 2006.

External links

• Official website