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,
Michael Nicholson the Messenger' in 2009, a Sony Broadcasting Awards Finalist in 2007 and three times Gold Medallist in New York's Broadcasting Guilds Award. 1999–2009 Reporter-Presenter for ITV's current affairs programme 'Tonight'. A regular contributor-presenter for BBC Radio 2 and 4. Documentaries include 'Falklands Families', 'Civvy Street', "Vietnam", 'Churchill', 'Archive Hour'. Contributor to 'Sunday Times', ' Economist', 'Daily Telegraph', 'Daily Express', 'Daily Mail', 'Spectator'. Falklands and Gulf Campaign Medals. In 1992 he was awarded the OBE from HM Queen Elizabeth II Fiction: "The Partridge Kite", "Red Joker", "December Ultimatum", "Pilgrim's Rest". Non Fiction: "A Measure of Danger", "Across the Limpopo", "Natasha's Story",