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| editor = | country = United Kingdom | location = Lime Grove Studios, London | language = English | network = BBC One | first_aired = | last_aired = | followed_by = ''Sixty Minutes'' | related = ''Watchdog'' }} ''Nationwide'' is a former BBC News and current affairs television programme which ran from 9 September 1969 until 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,〔Jeff Evans, (1995) ''The Guinness Television Encyclopedia''. Middlesex: Guinness. ISBN 0-85112-744-4〕 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.〔(Factual/The Good Word ) Off the Telly〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=TVARK - BBC South East Early Years - News )〕 The show was used in an influential cultural/media studies project at the University of Birmingham, known as The Nationwide Project. ==April Fool reports== April Fool reports by ''Nationwide'' over the years included: * Two pilots from the First World War fighting a duel in their planes to decide which one would marry a French woman * A lure which played music to fish which dramatically improved angling catches * A mysterious research institute that turned out to be breeding dinosaurs in the woods * A library where nothing worked properly as the builder had been holding the plans upside down and constructed it that way * New European legislation requiring standardisation of vegetables sizes * A top cooking expert showing recipes for cooking with snow * A family in a back street in Italy whose illicit production of nylon stockings in their sitting room was threatening the future profitability of the British textile industry 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nationwide (TV programme)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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