Thursday, 28 December 2017
877 What The Papers Say
First viewed : Uncertain
This long-running late night series was another great Granada contribution to the world of broadcasting. It simply cast a look at the previous week's papers with a prominent journalist preparing a script and illustrating their points with headlines and extracts read by an actor and presented on screen. It was usually fairly light in tone although certain journalists , notably inveterate leftie Paul Foot, would use the platform to push their own hobbyhorses.
I suspect I first saw an episode somewhat earlier than the autumn of 1988 but it was then that Granada put it on immediately after the Thursday episode of Prisoner Cell Block H . The one I remember was someone looking at the coverage of lager louts and disclosing that the beery guy under the headline "The Unacceptable face of Yukkie-dom" in The Sun was actually one of their own journalists.
The show eventually moved to Channel Four and then BBC2 in the nineties. It was axed in 2008 but revived as part of Radio Four's The Westminster Hour from 2010 to 2016.
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