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
Stop the Week Stop the Week Stop the Week was a BBC Radio 4 discussion programme chaired by Robert Robinson, which ran from 1974–1992. The BBC Radio's Current Affairs Department decided that it wanted a programme that would act as a bookend to Monday morning's "Start the Week" with Richard Baker, which had been running for about four years. "Stop the Week" ran on a Saturday evening, and its brief was to be a weekly magazine of satire, topical guests and music. The Hungarian émigré Michael Ember, also the producer of "Start the Week", was chosen as the producer. The programme was presented