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
Fred Harris (presenter) programme "Room 785". On this show he presents the "Broom Cupboard" slot introducing the forthcoming programmes. Fred Harris (presenter) Fred Harris is a British comedian and children's television presenter. Formerly a schoolteacher, he began his television career as a presenter of the BBC children's programme "Play School", on which he appeared regularly between 1973 and 1988. During this time he was also a presenter on "Ragtime" and "Chock-A-Block". During the rise of the microcomputer in the early 1980s he fronted several home computing BBC programmes, including "Micro Live" (which formed part of BBC's ongoing Computer Literacy Project). He also presented