People's panellist

Question Time is continuing the search for a young person to appear on the panel for a special edition of the programme on 10 July and we asked for your help in selecting the final candidate.

Applicants aged 18-21 years were asked to send in a mobile phone video clip explaining why they would like to appear on Schools Question Time.

A long-list of the 10 best entries are available above and we wanted you to join the debate by telling us who your favourite candidate is and why and comment on other candidates too.

Click here to read your comments about the final ten candidates

We were not looking at the volume of correspondence each candidate attracted. Rather we took comments into account which offered telling observations; were thoughtfully written from the point of view of the wider Question Time audience; or added a special insight or critique.

But the final editorial decision in selecting the "people's panellist" rested with the BBC as executive editor of the programme.

From these 10 candidates, five will be short-listed taking into account the comments made by you, and invited to an audition at BBC Millbank in Westminster.

Schools Question Time

The idea for a "people's panellist" came from a team of students who won a previous Schools Question Time Challenge.

Nineteen-year-old Luke Nurdin, one of this year's student producers said: "We are looking for someone who is interested in politics and current affairs. Confident, enthusiastic, passionate about the issues affecting young people. Oh, and spontaneous."

The Schools Question Time challenge, supported by the BBC, the Institute for Citizenship and BT, involves schools staging their own debates based upon the popular BBC One Question Time programme.

The programme will be broadcast on Thursday 10 July at the usual time, 10.35pm on BBC One.