"Sixty Minutes (UK TV programme) Sixty Minutes is a news and current affairs programme which ran each weekday at 5:40pm between 24 October 1983 to 27 July 1984 on BBC1. It replaced the ""Nationwide"" programme, and like ""Nationwide"", it also integrated the BBC regional news programmes into a single magazine programme. However, the BBC's News department stoutly maintained its independence from colleagues in Current Affairs, and the first 15 minutes of news was almost a separate programme, followed by 20 minutes from BBC regional news before the final 25 minutes of national current affairs. Accordingly, the format was unwieldy, with"
"current affairs programme on British television, with audiences peaking at more than 12 million. It was credited with helping to achieve numerous criminal convictions and a number of changes in the law. Amongst the many subjects tackled, the programme has exposed Northern Ireland protection rackets, baby trading in Brazil and Guatemala, canned hunting in South Africa, loan sharks, the ivory trade, people smuggling, drug dealing, mock auctions, counterfeit consumer goods, manipulation of the UK Singles Chart, war criminals in Bosnia, the Russian black market in weapons-grade plutonium and Satanic Ritual Abuse. In July 1990 the show investigated the Tainted Blood"
"Panorama (TV programme) Panorama is a British investigative current affairs documentary programme that is aired on BBC Television. First broadcast in 1953, it is the world's longest-running current affairs television programme. ""Panorama"" has been presented by many well known BBC presenters, including Richard Dimbleby, Robin Day, David Dimbleby and Jeremy Vine. it still retains a peak time transmission slot on BBC One, but without a regular presenter. The programme also airs worldwide through BBC World News on digital services, satellite and cable in many countries. ""Panorama"" was launched on 11 November 1953 by the BBC; it emphasises investigative journalism. ""Daily"
"Current Affairs Documentary at the World Television Festival in Banff in 2006. In the same year he also fronted a current affairs travelogue series around Europe. In 2007, Samuels' series ""Power To The People"" aired on BBC Two. Yoko Ono gave her blessing for the John Lennon song to be used as the title and soundtrack. The series saw him seizing Trafalgar Square with a platoon of abandoned soldiers, bringing a dying village from Cornwall to annex London's Islington and forming a rock group made up of lonely old people - The Zimmers. The popstar pensioners, with a 90-year-old lead"
"(who began in 1971 during the Baker era), Rosie Boycott, Catherine Bennett and Lisa Jardine. The original programme differed from its current form; for the first year or so it was entirely pre-recorded. Produced by Michael Ember, a flamboyant producer from the BBC Hungarian Service, the 1970 show was supposed to be intelligent banter on a weekly theme held together in a jocular fashion by Richard Baker, a well-known television newsreader. If that week contained Valentine's Day, for example, the show would start with some hints as to proper behaviour for that day, a bit of history, then a tape"
"hailed as a ""dialogue between generations."" With Gus Macdonald, Birt became joint editor of ""World in Action"" in 1969. Birt moved from Granada to London Weekend Television in 1971. At LWT he was the founding editor and executive producer of the current affairs programme ""Weekend World"". He became head of current affairs at LWT and, later, controller of features and current affairs. With ""Weekend World"" presenter Peter Jay, Birt contributed a series of three articles to ""The Times"" on the topic of television journalism. They argued that most television news and current affairs contained a ""bias against understanding"": pictures had"
"He then worked at the Public Record Office, now The National Archives, from 1996-2000 before leaving to work as a specialist researcher at the BBC, whilst establishing Sticks Research Agency. He is also CEO of Nations Memory Bank and advisor at Digital Estate Corporation. He is currently involved in the project the Family History Show, a genealogy video magazine. Barratt has made numerous TV appearances, and his credits include ""House Detectives"", ""Invasion"", ""Omnibus"" and the BAFTA-nominated ""Seven Wonders of the Industrial World"". Since 2002, he has moved into presenting, ""History Mysteries"", ""Hidden House History"" and ""So You Think You’re Royal"""
"on subjects such as ""The Industrial Relations Act: An Introduction"" (1971) and W. Somerset Maugham (1969). For the children's LP series ""Tale Spinners for Children"", he played the role of Sir Lancelot on the album ""Knights of the Round Table"", the role of Lemuel Gulliver in ""Gulliver in Lilliput"", and the role of Johann Sebastian Bach on the album ""The Story of Bach"". Derek Hart Derek Osborne Hart (18 March 1925 – 23 November 1986) was a British actor, journalist and broadcaster best known for his appearances on the BBC's current affairs programme of the 1950s and 1960s, ""Tonight"". Hart"
"that the programme's audience would have ""dwindled"" had it remained on Monday nights. In January 2007 Heggessey's successor, Peter Fincham, moved ""Panorama"" back from Sunday nights to a prime time Monday evening slot at 8.30 pm, although it was now shorter than it had previously been, running to half an hour. This decision was at least partly in response to a demand from the Board of Governors of the BBC for the channel to show more current affairs programming during prime time. Panorama (TV programme) Panorama is a British investigative current affairs documentary programme that is aired on BBC Television."
"A Current Affair (Australian TV program) A Current Affair (or ACA) is an Australian current affairs program airing weeknights on the Nine Network. The program is currently presented by Tracy Grimshaw. ""A Current Affair"" was first broadcast on 22 November 1971, with Mike Willesee, screening week nights at 7:00 pm, and was broadcast for GTV-9. For part of its early run, the comedian and actor Paul Hogan had a comic social commentary segment. Under Willesee, ACA was a Transmedia production for the Nine Network. When Willesee left Nine in 1974 to move to the rival 0–10 Network, journalist Mike Minehan"
"Blair's last Foreign Secretary. Chris Mullin, Labour MP for Sunderland South from 1987 to 2010, played a major role in the programme's campaign on behalf of the Birmingham Six. Gus Macdonald, now Baron Macdonald of Tradeston, and from 1998 to 2003 a government minister, was formerly an executive on the programme. John Birt (by then ennobled as Baron Birt), was personal adviser to the British Prime Minister Tony Blair between 2001 and 2005. Editors of the programme (sometimes with the title of executive producer) were, successively, Tim Hewat, Derek Granger, Alex Valentine, David Plowright, Jeremy Wallington, Leslie Woodhead, John Birt,"
"Robert Shortt Robert Shortt (born 1971) is an Irish journalist and current affairs broadcaster. He currently works as a reporter with RTÉ's flagship current affairs programme ""Prime Time"". Shortt began his journalistic career with ""Nihon Keizai Shimbun"" and BBC News before joining RTÉ in 1998. He initially worked on radio as a reporter on ""RTÉ News at One"" before being appointed RTÉ News Business Correspondent in 2001. In that role he created and co-presented ""The Business Programme"" on RTÉ Radio 1. From 2005 to 2008 Shortt was based in the United States as RTÉ's Washington Correspondent. He covered stories such"
"hosted by Davina McCall, who presented ""Big Brother"". However, ""Davina"" was a critical and ratings disaster, which Fincham subsequently admitted was personally his fault, although he defended the strategy of experimenting with the BBC One schedule. This he continued in January 2007, when he moved the current affairs series ""Panorama"" from its Sunday night slot back to the prime time Monday evening slot from which it had been removed in 2000, most likely in response to a demand from the Board of Governors of the BBC for the channel to show more current affairs programming in prime time. Fincham's judgement"
"of a direct collaboration between BBC News, then at Television Centre, and the current affairs department, based a short distance away at the now defunct Lime Grove Studios. Staff feared job cuts. The newscast also served as a replacement for the current affairs programme ""Tonight"". Former presenters include Peter Snow, a regular for 17 years, Donald MacCormick, Charles Wheeler, Adam Raphael and John Tusa, later boss of the BBC World Service. In the early days each edition had an 'auxiliary presenter', a phenomenon pejoratively known at the time as the ""Newsnight's wife syndrome"". Usually a woman, it was her job"
"(Each of the book titles is a play on a pop culture phrase or film title that is of, or relevant to, the '70s, those being ""Blood, Bullets and Babes"", ""A Fistful of Dollars"", ""Borstal Boy"" and ""Get Carter""). Life on Mars (UK TV series) Life on Mars is a British television series broadcast on BBC One between 9 January 2006 and 10 April 2007. The series combines elements of speculative fiction and police procedural, featuring a present-day police officer from the Greater Manchester Police (played by John Simm) who wakes up in 1973 after being involved in a road"
"Nick Barratt Nicholas David Barratt (born 16 May 1970) is an English genealogist. He is best known as genealogical consultant for series 1 to 4 of the BBC show ""Who Do You Think You Are?"". Barratt is the CEO of Sticks Research Agency and personal heritage site Nations Memory Bank. He also presents Live the Dream: As Seen on TV with Melissa Porter. Barratt was born at Hammersmith, London. He was educated at Hampton School, and took a PhD in history from King's College London, before completing his PhD in state finance and fiscal history also from King's College London."
"about his battle with throat cancer on ""Australian Story"". Mike Willesee Michael Willesee (born 29 June 1942 in Perth, Western Australia) is an Australian television journalist, interviewer and presenter. Willesee came to prominence in 1967 as a reporter for the ABC's new nightly current affairs program ""This Day Tonight"" (""TDT""), where his aggressive style quickly earned him a reputation as a fearless political interviewer. Willesee figured prominently in the controversy that erupted over the decision in early 1967 by the Liberal government, led by Prime Minister Harold Holt, not to reappoint the ABC Chairman Dr James Darling. This decision was"
"Derek Hart Derek Osborne Hart (18 March 1925 – 23 November 1986) was a British actor, journalist and broadcaster best known for his appearances on the BBC's current affairs programme of the 1950s and 1960s, ""Tonight"". Hart was born in Hertfordshire and educated in Bath, Somerset. As an interviewer, Hart's subjects included Lon Chaney Jr and John Wyndham. In 1969 he interviewed Christopher Isherwood for the ""Omnibus"" documentary series. In 1968 he hosted a series of arts programmes, ""Tempo"", in the course of which he interviewed major theatrical figures such as Michael Hordern and Sybil Thorndike. He also narrated documentaries"
"Current affairs (news format) Current affairs is a genre of broadcast journalism where the emphasis is on detailed analysis and discussion of news stories that have recently occurred or are ongoing at the time of broadcast. This differs from regular news broadcasts that place emphasis on news reports presented for simple presentation as soon as possible, often with a minimum of analysis. It is also different from the news magazine show format, in that the events are discussed immediately. The UK's Office programmes such as ""This World"", ""Panorama"", ""Real Story"", ""BBC Scotland Investigates"", ""Spotlight"", ""Week In Week Out"", and ""Inside"
"a report investigating the employment of women over 50 years old at the BBC. The report was delivered to Sir Michael Lyons, Chairman of the BBC Trust and Jeremy Hunt, the shadow Culture and Media Secretary in April 2010. In summary the report accuses the BBC of institutional ageism against older women. Selina Scott Selina Mary Scott (born 13 May 1951) is a British television presenter who was co-presenter of the first breakfast TV programme in the UK before crossing the Atlantic to join West 57, a prime time current affairs show broadcast from New York. Scott continues to write,"
"Bridget Alexandra Heathcoat-Amory (born 21 May 1952), daughter of Brigadier Roderick Heathcoat-Amory and his wife Sonia Myrtle Heathcoat-Amory (""née"" Denison). He married thirdly, in 2011, Anna Lloyd, by whom he has three daughters, with whom he lives in Notting Hill. Michael Cockerell Michael Roger Lewis Cockerell (born 26 August 1940) is a British broadcaster and journalist. He is the BBC's most established political documentary maker, with a long, Emmy award-winning career of political programmes spanning television and radio. His father was Secretary General of the Chartered Insurance Institute, a professor who was an expert on insurance law and his mother"
"November, BBC Parliament broadcast ""Tebbit on Thatcher"", an evening of programmes to mark the 25th anniversary of Margaret Thatcher's resignation as Prime Minister and leader the Conservative Party. The programmes were introduced by Norman Tebbit and the items shown included her 1980 speech to the Conservative Party Conference, news reports about vital events in her time as Prime Minister and two editions of Panorama. On 3 April, BBC Parliament broadcast ""Callaghan Night"" to mark the 40th anniversary of James Callaghan replacing Harold Wilson as Prime Minister and leader of the Labour Party. Three editions of Panorama and two editions of"
"was replaced by ""Left, Right and Centre"". Agenda (UK TV programme) Agenda is a British current affairs television programme that was broadcast on BBC Scotland during the early part of the 1980s, airing mostly on Sundays at 1:25 pm before being moved to Friday evening. It was a successor to the general current affairs programme ""Current Account"", which ran from 1968 until May 1983. Agenda's first presenter was James Cox with Kenneth Cargill producing. The editor was Matthew Spicer. Subsequently, the former SNP politician George Reid presented the programme and the producer was Kirsty Wark, later to become a television"
"remission, and became a strong advocate of positron emission tomography. The cancer returned in early 2010. Schildberger died at the Cabrini Hospital in Prahran on 2 June 2010. Michael Schildberger Michael Julius Schildberger (4 April 1938 – 2 June 2010) was an Australian journalist, radio and television presenter, and author. He is best known for hosting ""A Current Affair"" in the 1970s. Schildberger began his media career in 1955 when he joined ""The Sun News-Pictorial"" as a copy boy and subsequently became a cadet reporter. In 1958 he moved to GTV 9 where he remained for the next twenty years."
"After two years of national service, he moved to Fleet Street to work for the ""Daily Mirror"", becoming a foreign correspondent in the New York bureau. In 1960 Wilcox moved to television as a reporter on ITV's ""This Week"" current affairs programme, where he stayed for five years until joining the BBC. He was co-editor and presenter of the landmark ""Man Alive"" series in 1965. He later formed the Man Alive Unit as well as providing the distinctive voice-over in the weekly current-affairs programme ""TEMPO"" directed by Mike Hodges. In an interview in 1986 he said: From 1972 to 1980"
"Michael Bukht Mirza Michael John Bukht (10 September 1941 – 4 August 2011) was a British commercial radio executive. Under the pseudonym Michael Barry, he was a chef and television personality who was a regular co-presenter on the BBC2 television show ""Food and Drink"". Barry was educated at The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School and at King's College London (BA). His father was a Pakistani diplomat while his mother was from Southern Wales. From 1973 to 1997 he was the Programme controller for Capital Radio, GWR Group Radio, Classic FM, Jamaica Broadcasting and the Principal of the National Broadcasting School. The"
"flagship news programme ""Sunday AM"", known as ""The Andrew Marr Show"" since September 2007; the slot was previously filled by ""Breakfast with Frost"" and hosted by Sir David Frost. Marr also presented the BBC Radio 4 programme ""Start the Week"" until his illness in 2013, and has now returned as the programme's regular host. In May and June 2007, the BBC broadcast ""Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain"". He presented the series of five one-hour documentaries chronicling the history of Britain from 1945 to 2007. Unsold copies of the book of the series, a best-seller, were recalled in March 2009"
"for corporate and government meetings. His wife Sarah Caplin, the secondary founder of ChildLine, was Deputy Secretary of the BBC and also a senior executive with ITV, the British commercial television broadcaster. The couple have three sons: Adam, Sam and Jack. Nick Ross Nicholas David ""Nick"" Ross (born 7 August 1947) is an English-German radio and television presenter across the wide range of factual programmes. During the 1980s and 90s he was one of the most ubiquitous of British broadcasters but is best known for hosting of the BBC TV show ""Crimewatch"" which he left on 2 July 2007 after"
"Affairs Current affairs (news format) Current affairs is a genre of broadcast journalism where the emphasis is on detailed analysis and discussion of news stories that have recently occurred or are ongoing at the time of broadcast. This differs from regular news broadcasts that place emphasis on news reports presented for simple presentation as soon as possible, often with a minimum of analysis. It is also different from the news magazine show format, in that the events are discussed immediately. The UK's Office programmes such as ""This World"", ""Panorama"", ""Real Story"", ""BBC Scotland Investigates"", ""Spotlight"", ""Week In Week Out"", and"
"""A Current Affair"" when it debuted in 1971. He later left Nine for a role as news and current affairs director at the 0-10 Network, where he also presented a weekly interview program. He joined the Seven Network in 1975 and hosted the first Australian version of This Is Your Life. He also presented a nightly current affairs program called ""Willesee At Seven"" which claimed a victory over ""A Current Affair"" in the same timeslot and led to that program being axed in 1978. ""Willesee At Seven"" later to became ""Willesee ‘81"" and ""Willesee ‘82"" before it ended in 1982"
"an embarrassing end when he ran out of money for the electricity meter. Twenty years later, in 2004, he attempted the experiment again for the documentary ""For the Benefit of Mr Parris, Revisited"". Parris resigned as an MP by applying for the Crown position of Steward of the Manor of Northstead and left Parliament specifically to take over from Brian Walden as host of ITV's influential Sunday lunchtime current-affairs series ""Weekend World"" in 1986. The series, broadcast since 1977 with Walden at its helm, ran for two more years under Parris before being cancelled in 1988. He presents BBC Radio"
"landing in 1969. Burnet left ITN in 1965 to rejoin ""The Economist"" as editor, but continued broadcasting as a reporter and interviewer for Associated-Rediffusion's weekly current affairs programme ""This Week"". He returned part-time to ITN in 1967 to launch ""News at Ten"" (initially as thirteen-week pilot), presenting the first programme on 3 July alongside Andrew Gardner, and also presented the short lived topical interview series ""Man in the News"" in 1970. He switched to the BBC in 1972 to report and present for ""Panorama"" and ""Midweek"" and to anchor coverage of the February and October 1974 General Election programmes, also"
"programme, ""Panorama"", he now specialises in in-depth documentaries on the politics and players of Westminster. Most notably, he has made biographical profiles of Margaret Thatcher, Edward Heath, Alan Clark, Barbara Castle, Roy Jenkins, Michael Howard, David Cameron and most recently of Boris Johnson. Besides the profiles, over the last decade he has made documentaries on particular political themes. From the 1970s, there were Sir Ted: A Film Portrait of Edward Heath, How We Fell For Europe (1975), The Lost World of the Seventies, Roy Jenkins: A Very Social Democrat, The Marketing Of Margaret Thatcher (1983), Blair's Thousand Days - The"