Panorama (TV programme) that the programme's audience would have "dwindled" had it remained on Monday nights. In January 2007 Heggessey's successor, Peter Fincham, moved "Panorama" back from Sunday nights to a prime time Monday evening slot at 8.30 pm, although it was now shorter than it had previously been, running to half an hour. This decision was at least partly in response to a demand from the Board of Governors of the BBC for the channel to show more current affairs programming during prime time. Panorama (TV programme) Panorama is a British investigative current affairs documentary programme that is aired on BBC Television.
The World at One at One" "broke new ground in news broadcasting and was one of the reasons why radio is still important today", helping establish a form of current affairs programme that influenced the creation of "Newsnight" in 1980 and "Channel 4 News" in 1982. The launch of "The World at One" was part of a wider change in BBC news and current affairs coverage: more journalists were arriving from Fleet Street and replacing a more sedate and collegiate culture. John Timpson said that by 1966 or 1967, "[a]n Oxbridge accent was no longer as important as a good contacts book, a shrewd