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
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",