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,
The World at One news and comment] on air". In his history of radio news and current affairs, "Public Issue Radio", Hugh Chignell pointed out that "The World at One" was a highly successful but also a profoundly controversial innovation. It provided a successful approach to news and current affairs which would be cloned elsewhere but at the same time it horrified the more Reithian wing of the BBC who reacted in the 1970s by creating single subject current affairs programmes ("Analysis" and "File on Four") in reaction to "The World at One's" vulgar journalism. That vulgarity was personified by its first presenter, William