Sixty Minutes (UK TV programme) 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
Claire Barratt of Industrial Heritage and won the Association for Industrial Archaeology Student Fieldwork Award. Presently a freelance consultant industrial archaeologist, Barratt has restored and run many different vehicles, and is currently restoring a watermill in Cornwall. She is a member of Subterranea Britannica, a society which studies and records man-made underground sites. Barratt is married to Ben, and the pair have two daughters and a pet dog. Claire Barratt Claire Barratt (born 1974) is an English industrial archaeologist, steam engineer and television presenter. Barratt studied civil engineering at the University of Portsmouth, and whilst doing so, became more interested in mechanical