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,
Agenda (UK TV programme) 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