Week Ending Week Ending Week Ending was a satirical radio current affairs sketch show, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4, usually on Friday evenings. It ran from 1970 to 1998, and was devised by writer-producers Simon Brett and David Hatch, and was originally hosted by "Nationwide" presenter Michael Barratt. The show's title was always announced as "Week Ending..." followed by the broadcast date, although the ellipsis was dropped from its billed title in "Radio Times" during the mid-seventies. The show was written and recorded shortly before the first broadcast, and satirised events of the week. Each show concluded with "And now here
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