They stopped using it. 1977. Out of the blue, they just actually stopped using it, and suddnely it was gone and you weren't going to hear it again. I mean, this theme, they actually stopped using. Actually stopped. Have you ever seen the like? Threw it away, took it out of our lives, changed it.
SiLoJayLo: Happy to report that Mike Barratt is still very much with us - aged 84 and living in Buckinghamshire. And on 22 February he'll be at the NFT in London talking about Nationwide!
Sue Lawley... has anyone got video of her doing wogan, when she said whoopie goldberg played an ugly black woman in the colour purple... i think that was the defining moment that lead to ricky gervias going after cring tv material
Proper blokes with big jaws, and wide lapels.. going out into the world with their hush-puppy shoes and foam microphone-covers.. Like an army of secondary-school geography-teachers..
Not like the pasteurised ponces seen on the goggle nowadays..!
@MYBIGKINDHEART Nationwide was a programme on the BBC that went out after the national news at teatime - it included your local BBC news and was a kind of magazine programme which prided itself in going all around the UK for news storys and opinion.
They stopped using it. 1977. Out of the blue, they just actually stopped using it, and suddnely it was gone and you weren't going to hear it again. I mean, this theme, they actually stopped using. Actually stopped. Have you ever seen the like? Threw it away, took it out of our lives, changed it.
maurice 5 days ago
SiLoJayLo: Happy to report that Mike Barratt is still very much with us - aged 84 and living in Buckinghamshire. And on 22 February he'll be at the NFT in London talking about Nationwide!
DBIVUK 2 weeks ago
Sue Lawley... has anyone got video of her doing wogan, when she said whoopie goldberg played an ugly black woman in the colour purple... i think that was the defining moment that lead to ricky gervias going after cring tv material
AmsterdamnedMovie 3 weeks ago
Proper blokes with big jaws, and wide lapels.. going out into the world with their hush-puppy shoes and foam microphone-covers.. Like an army of secondary-school geography-teachers..
Not like the pasteurised ponces seen on the goggle nowadays..!
Lytton333 1 month ago
Michael Barrett, the presenter, was on a TV documentary the other day. He does't look that different!
soundzok 1 month ago
@soundzok He's dead, now, though, isn't he?
SiLoJayLo 3 weeks ago
i can remember the spinning nationwide logo but not the theme tune.
peterpeterxxo 2 months ago
Great theme. And a brilliant show, as I remember.
soundzok 2 months ago
@MYBIGKINDHEART Nationwide was a programme on the BBC that went out after the national news at teatime - it included your local BBC news and was a kind of magazine programme which prided itself in going all around the UK for news storys and opinion.
Whitbywatcher 3 months ago
what was this show? great tune by the way, thats another thing that got crap now too is the music
MYBIGKINDHEART 3 months ago
what a great tv theme...
2010dispencer 7 months ago