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,
Stop the Week Stop the Week Stop the Week was a BBC Radio 4 discussion programme chaired by Robert Robinson, which ran from 1974–1992. The BBC Radio's Current Affairs Department decided that it wanted a programme that would act as a bookend to Monday morning's "Start the Week" with Richard Baker, which had been running for about four years. "Stop the Week" ran on a Saturday evening, and its brief was to be a weekly magazine of satire, topical guests and music. The Hungarian émigré Michael Ember, also the producer of "Start the Week", was chosen as the producer. The programme was presented