Gordon Brown will be put on the spot by 30 children
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Chancellor Gordon Brown will be grilled by a group of 10-year-olds in a show to mark TV channel Five's 10th birthday.
Mr Brown's interview comes a decade after Kirsty Young interviewed Tony Blair on the station's launch night.
A week of shows themed around being 10 will mark Five's birthday. They include The Ten Demandments, in which children get to run their households for a week.
The UK's last free-to-air network, Five launched with a specially-commissioned song by The Spice Girls in March 1997.
Around two million people tuned in to see their performance, but viewing figures fell to around one million for spoof medical drama Hospital and Jack Doherty's chat show.
The Spice Girls launched the channel in 1997
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Ten years later, Five regularly reaches 3.5 million people with its most popular show, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and accounted for almost 6% of all viewing in 2006.
The channel will pay tribute its opening night's star attraction with a one-off panel show, I Blame the Spice Girls.
The quiz, presented by Lisa Tarbuck, will look back at the music, fashion and politics of the last 10 years.
Also included in the line-up is Britain's Extraordinary 10-Year-Olds, which looks at the lives of three children who have triumphed over adversity.
Liberty Bell, the company Grumpy Old Men, will contribute a programme called Being Ten, which intercuts children talking about subjects close to their hearts with celebrities recalling events from their childhood.
The programmes will be screened from 26-31 March. The anniversary of Five's first broadcast is on 30 March.
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