Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Nationwide was a BBC News and current affairs television programme which ran from 9 September 1969 to 5 August 1983. It was broadcast on BBC One each weekday following the early evening news. It followed a magazine format, combining political analysis and discussion with consumer affairs, light entertainment and sports reporting. It began on 9 September 1969, running between Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6.00pm, before being extended to five days a week in 1972. From 1976 until 1981 the start time was 5:55pm. The final edition was broadcast on 5 August 1983, and the following October it was replaced by Sixty Minutes. The long-running Watchdog programme began as a Nationwide feature.The light entertainment was quite similar in tone to That's Life!. Eccentric stories featured skateboarding ducks and men who claimed that they could walk on egg shells. (In fact, the show's tendency to sidestep serious matters in favour of light pieces was famously spoofed in an episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, where the show, instead of reporting on the opening of the Third World War, chose to feature a story about a \"theory\" that sitting down in a comfortable chair rests one's legs). Richard Stilgoe performed topical songs.The programme's famous brass and strings theme music The Good Word was composed by Johnny Scott.After the introduction and round-up, the BBC regions opted out for a twenty minute section for local news round ups (Midlands Today, Points West, Wales Today, Look East, etc.) Once they had handed back to Lime Grove Studios in London, the regions remained on standby to participate in feedback and two-way interviews to be transmitted across the whole BBC network.For all of its run, Nationwide provided the regional news for the BBC London/South East region, as this region was the only BBC region not to have its own dedicated regional news team. When other regions had their local news programme, the Nationwide presenters provided the latest news and weather for the London and South East region from the Nationwide studio. This situation would last until 1984.The show was used in an influential cultural/media studies project at the University of Birmingham, known as The Nationwide Project."@en }
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- Nationwide_(TV_programme) abstract "Nationwide was a BBC News and current affairs television programme which ran from 9 September 1969 to 5 August 1983. It was broadcast on BBC One each weekday following the early evening news. It followed a magazine format, combining political analysis and discussion with consumer affairs, light entertainment and sports reporting. It began on 9 September 1969, running between Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6.00pm, before being extended to five days a week in 1972. From 1976 until 1981 the start time was 5:55pm. The final edition was broadcast on 5 August 1983, and the following October it was replaced by Sixty Minutes. The long-running Watchdog programme began as a Nationwide feature.The light entertainment was quite similar in tone to That's Life!. Eccentric stories featured skateboarding ducks and men who claimed that they could walk on egg shells. (In fact, the show's tendency to sidestep serious matters in favour of light pieces was famously spoofed in an episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, where the show, instead of reporting on the opening of the Third World War, chose to feature a story about a \"theory\" that sitting down in a comfortable chair rests one's legs). Richard Stilgoe performed topical songs.The programme's famous brass and strings theme music The Good Word was composed by Johnny Scott.After the introduction and round-up, the BBC regions opted out for a twenty minute section for local news round ups (Midlands Today, Points West, Wales Today, Look East, etc.) Once they had handed back to Lime Grove Studios in London, the regions remained on standby to participate in feedback and two-way interviews to be transmitted across the whole BBC network.For all of its run, Nationwide provided the regional news for the BBC London/South East region, as this region was the only BBC region not to have its own dedicated regional news team. When other regions had their local news programme, the Nationwide presenters provided the latest news and weather for the London and South East region from the Nationwide studio. This situation would last until 1984.The show was used in an influential cultural/media studies project at the University of Birmingham, known as The Nationwide Project.".