Sixty Minutes (UK TV programme) 3 September 1984 with the "Six O'clock News". Arguably, another legacy was the eventual integration of the BBC News and Current Affairs departments. 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,
Songs of Praise Songs of Praise Songs of Praise is a BBC Television religious programme that presents Christian hymns that first aired in October 1961. Since 2016 it has been presented by many people, including former "BBC Breakfast" co-presenter Bill Turnbull and "Good Morning Britain" sports editor Sean Fletcher. The first edition was broadcast from the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Cardiff, and the series is one of the longest running of its kind on television anywhere in the world. Presenters of the show have included Geoffrey Wheeler, Michael Barratt, Cliff Michelmore, Sir Harry Secombe, Alan Titchmarsh, Roger Royle, Debbie Thrower, Bruce Parker, Ian