Broadcast live every weekday between 6 and 7pm, Nationwide was BBC TV's most popular news and current affairs programme for the 14 years of its run.
Writer and broadcaster Steve Hewlett, who worked on the programme, explores what it was about Nationwide that turned it into one of the most confident, distinctive and iconic TV institutions of the 1970s. He hears from presenters Michael Barratt, Valerie Singleton, John Stapleton and Sue Cook, and from those behind the scenes. Producer Angela Hind
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RunTK! Skateboarding Duck!
8.00pm R4
Teatime in the 70s meant Nationwide to millions of viewers: a daily current-affairs magazine, it covered everything from hard news to twee items like the title's skateboarding duck. It was on Nationwide that Mrs Thatcher was harried over the Belgrano incident by a tenacious housewife and it was Nationwide that instigated the move to get pyramid selling outlawed. Yet it was also the programme that had a panto featuring Norman Tebbit on vocals. By talking to the presenters and the boys in the backroom, the programme's producer, Angela Hind (once a Nationwide researcher), has made an anecdote-rich tale of dodgy technology and hair-raising deadlines that is as amusing as it is nostalgic. Perfect Archive Hour material. Read The Inside Story on p74. Frances Lass