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{{infobox television |
{{Buenos Aires Barrio|
| show_name = Nationwide
barrio = Palermo |
area = 15.9 |
| image = |
| caption = |
population = 225,245 (2001) |
| format = [[current affairs (news format)|Current Affairs]]
density = 14,166 |
| runtime = 50mins
comuna = [[Comuna 14|C14]] |
| creator = [[Derrick Amoore]] |
site_list = [[Hipódromo de Palermo]],<br>
| starring = '''Presenters included:'''<br>[[Michael Barratt]]<br>[[Bob Wellings]]<br>[[Sue Lawley]]<br>[[Frank Bough]]<br>[[Sue Cook]]<br>[[David Dimbleby]]<br>[[John Stapleton]]<br>[[Suzanne Hall]]<br>[[Valerie Singleton]]<br>[[Hugh Scully]]<br>[[Richard Kershaw]]<br>[[Laurie Mayer]]
[[Plaza Italia]],<br>
| country = [[United Kingdom|UK]]
[[Buenos Aires Botanical Garden]],<br>
| network = [[BBC One]]
[[Campo Argentino de Polo]], <br>
| first_aired = [[1969]]
[[Buenos Aires Zoo]],<br>
| last_aired = [[1983]]
[[Aeroparque Jorge Newbery]]|
| num_episodes =3131
image_map = Image:Palermo-Buenos_Aires_map.png|
|}}
comments =
'''''Nationwide''''' was a [[BBC television|BBC]] [[current affairs (news format)|current affairs]] television series 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 (on Fridays). It ran from [[9 September]] [[1969]] to [[5 August]] [[1983]],<ref>Jeff Evans, (1995) ''The Guinness Television Encyclopedia''. Middlesex: Guinness. ISBN 0-85112-744-4</ref> when it was replaced by ''[[Sixty Minutes (TV series)|Sixty Minutes]]''. The long-running ''[[Watchdog (TV series)|Watchdog]]'' programme began as a ''Nationwide'' feature.
}}


The light entertainment was quite similar in tone to ''[[That's Life!]]''. Eccentric stories featured [[skateboarding duck]]s and men who claimed that they could walk on egg shells. (In fact, the show's tendency to sidestep serious issues 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.
'''Palermo''' is a neighborhood, or ''[[barrio]]'' of the [[Argentina|Argentine]] capital, [[Buenos Aires]]. It is located in the northeast of the city, bordering the barrios of [[Belgrano, Buenos Aires|Belgrano]] to the north, [[Almagro]] and [[Recoleta]] to the south, [[Villa Crespo]] and [[Colegiales]] to the west and the [[Río de la Plata]] river to the east. With a total area of {{convert|17.4|km2|sqmi|0|abbr=on}}, Palermo is the largest neighborhood in Buenos Aires. As of 1991 it had a population of 256,927 inhabitants ({{census-ar|1991}}). It is the only ''barrio'' within the administrative division of ''Comuna'' 14.


The programme's famous brass and strings theme music ''The Good Word'' was composed by [[John Scott (composer)|Johnny Scott]].<ref>[http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/factual/nationwide.htm OFF THE TELLY: Factual/The Good Word<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
==History==
{| border=0 style="float:left; margin:0 0 1em 1em"
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|[[Image:Fuente Riqueza Agropecuaria Argentina.jpg|thumb|left|225px|Sculptor [[Gustav Bredow]]'s work on Plaza Alemania.]]
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|[[Image:Buenos Aires - Club de Pescadores.jpg|thumb|left|225px|''Club de Pescadores'']]
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|[[Image:PlanetarioBUE002.JPG|thumb|left|225px|Galilei Planetarium (Palermo Woods)]]
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|[[Image:Palermo Gardens.JPG|thumb|left|225px|Paddle boats on the lake at [[Parque Tres de Febrero]]]]
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|[[Image:Buenos Aires Jardin Botanico Carlos Thays 02.jpg|thumb|left|225px|[[Buenos Aires Botanical Gardens]]]]
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|[[Image:Parque3deFebrero001.JPG|thumb|left|225px|[[Parque Tres de Febrero]] and Palermo ''Chico'', behind it.]]
|}


After the introduction and round-up, the BBC regions [[Opt out|opted out]] for a twenty minute section for local news round ups (''Midlands Today'', ''Points West'', ''Wales Today'' 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.
The name of the district is derived from the still-existing [[Franciscan]] [[abbey]] of '''Saint Benedict of Palermo''', an alternative name for [[Saint Benedict the Moor]]. Saint Benedict the Moor lived from 1526 to 1589 and is a complementary patron saint of [[Palermo]], the capital city of [[Sicily]].[http://www.scborromeo.org/saints/moor.htm]
In an alternative history of the name, a folk story supported by journalists, the land would have been originally purchased by an [[Italy|Italian]] [[immigrant]] named ''Juan Domingo Palermo'' in the late 16th century, shortly after the foundation of Buenos Aires in 1580. [[Juan Manuel de Rosas]] built a country residence there which was confiscated after his fall in 1851.
[[Image:Buenos Aires - Palermo - Parroquia Guadalupe.jpg|thumb|''Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe'' church]][[Image:Monumento de los Españoles.JPG|thumb|Monument to Argentina. Raised by the Spanish community in 1910, it is commonly referred to as the "Spanish Monument".]][[Image:GaribaldiBuenosAires.jpg|thumb|Monument to [[Giuseppe Garibaldi]], Plaza Italia.]]


The show was used in an influential [[cultural studies|cultural]]/[[media studies]] project at the [[University of Birmingham]], known as [[The Nationwide Project]]. The name also provided inspiration to the former [[Nationwide Building Society|Co-operative Permanent Building Society]] who, in [[1971]] renamed themselves the [[Nationwide Building Society]].
The area grew rapidly during the last third of the 19th century and particularly during the presidency of [[Domingo Faustino Sarmiento]], responsible for the creation of the [[Buenos Aires Zoological Gardens]] and the ''[[Parque Tres de Febrero]]'' in 1874, and ''[[Plaza Italia]]'' and the [[Hipódromo de Palermo|Palermo Race Track]] in 1876, all on the grounds of what had been Rosas' pleasure villa.


==Thatcher ''On the Spot''==
During the 20th century, the [[Buenos Aires Botanical Gardens]] (1902), ''[[Aeroparque Jorge Newbery]]'', the water purification building, several sport clubs, the ''Jardín Japonés'' ("Japanese Garden") and the [[Galileo Galilei Planetarium]] were erected.
{{wikiquote|Diana Gould}}Perhaps the most famous interview occurred in May [[1983]] during a [[United Kingdom general election, 1983|general election]] special of its "On the Spot" feature. Mrs Diana Gould, a geography teacher from [[Cirencester]], persistently challenged [[Margaret Thatcher]] about her ordering of the sinking of the ''[[ARA General Belgrano|General Belgrano]]'' when it was sailing away from the [[Falkland Islands|Falklands]]. Mrs Thatcher denied that the Belgrano had been sailing away, but Mrs. Gould quoted map references and continued to push her point across, encouraged - so the Conservative party claimed - by presenter Sue Lawley. When Mrs Thatcher asked her whether she accepted that the Belgrano had been a danger to British shipping when it was sunk, Mrs Gould told her that she did not. Thatcher then proclaimed that "I think it could only be in Britain that a British Prime Minister could be asked why she took action to protect ''our'' ships against an enemy ship that was a danger to our shipping", and was extremely angry about the BBC for allowing the question.<ref>[[Michael Cockerell]], (1988) ''Live from Number 10: The Inside Story of Prime Ministers and Television.'' page 238, London: Faber & Faber. ISBN 0-571-14757-7</ref> Thatcher's husband [[Denis Thatcher|Denis]] lashed out at [[Roger Bolton (producer)|Roger Bolton]], the editor of the programme, in the entertainment suite, saying that his wife had been "stitched up by bloody BBC [[homosexuality|poofs]] and [[Trotskyism|Trots]]".<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1518975.stm BBC News | UK | TV's top 10 tantrums<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> As a result, Thatcher became increasingly hostile to the BBC and never again set foot on BBC premises{{Fact|date=October 2008}}. She often gave access to rival networks first and only would meet the BBC at Downing Street.


==Subdivisions==
==Archive status==
As a contemporary programme ''Nationwide'' was only recorded on broadcast [[videotape]] in the event of possible [[complaint]] or [[litigation]]; after a period of time tapes would be [[wiped]] and re-used although filmed reports were archived. Consequently only a few complete editions exist in their original form.
Although appearing as one big swath on the official map, Palermo can be subdivided into several contrasting and acutely individual parts, the most clearly delimited of which may be considered further ''de facto'' neighborhoods of Buenos Aires.


However, in his book ''The Television Heritage'' ([[1989]]), author Steve Bryant claimed that "a virtually complete collection of the BBC magazine programme ''Nationwide'' from [[1971]] to [[1980]]" existed as domestic recordings.<ref>When domestic video recorders had become available in the early 1970s, the BBC started making [[Lower third#Terminology|Programme as broadcast]] (PasB) recordings of most news and current affairs programmes - until then only audio recordings had been made for future editorial review purposes.</ref> He wrote:
===Alto Palermo and Villa Freud===


"Already virtually doomed is material held on early domestic tape formats manufactured by Sony, [[Shibaden]] and Philips. The pictures from these tapes are very poor - indeed, the Sony and Shibaden [[reel-to-reel]] tapes are monochrome only - but some unique collections exist on these formats. Most significant is a virtually complete collection of the BBC magazine programme ''Nationwide'' from 1971 to 1980, mostly on Sony and Shibaden, but on Philips for the programmes after 1977. This collection is held by the NFA ([[National Film Archive]]) and represents the only copies of the complete programmes in existence.
Alto Palermo is downtown Palermo, the main shopping area and transport hub around [[Avenida Santa Fe]]. At its core is the [[Alto Palermo Shopping Centre]], a large shopping mall. Villa Freud, based around Plaza Güemes, is a residential area known for its high concentration of psychoanalysts and psychiatrists, hence its name.


The BBC has all the film reports and a small selection of pre-recorded video inserts, but the programmes themselves were live and were not recorded off-air. Neither the machinery nor the funds are currently available to save the contents of these tapes, so a valuable daily record of British life in the 70s, including a large number of live interviews with leading politicians and celebrities of the time, looks like being lost."<ref name="Bryant">
===Palermo Viejo===
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But the [[British Film Institute]] website has stated more recently that "so far we have successfully dubbed 500 [Philips] N-1500 [tapes] as part of an [[National Lottery (United Kingdom)|HLF]]-Funded Nationwide preservation project"<ref>{{cite web
''Palermo Viejo'' (Old Palermo) is, as its name implies, the oldest part. It runs from [[Avenida Santa Fe]] south to [[Avenida Córdoba]], and from Avenida Dorrego east to Avenida Coronel Díaz. The neighborhood is centred on [[Plaza Palermo Viejo]] and reflects an older [[Culture of Spain#Architecture|Spanish]] style in architecture, often "recycled" with modern elements.
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Such well-known figures as [[Jorge Luis Borges]] and [[Che Guevara]] once lived in this [[ward (politics)|ward]] and indeed Borges first wrote poetry in the then quiet barrio. Borges's poem "Fundacion mitica de Buenos Aires" names a typical square (Guatemala, Serrano, Paraguay, Gurruchaga). It was historically a residential area, popular with communities from [[Poland]], [[Armenia]], [[Ukraine]] and [[Lebanon]] and old Spanish and Italian families, whose traditions are reflected in local restaurants, churches, schools and cultural centres.
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===Palermo Soho===
==References==
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==External links==
Palermo Soho is a small area of Palermo Viejo around [[Plaza Serrano]] (officially Plazoleta Cortázar), and it is a newly fashionable area for fashion, design, restaurants, bars and street culture. The atmosphere in many cafés and restaurants strives to be ''alternative'', which makes this area of the city especially popular with young, upper-middle class Argentines as well as foreign tourists. The traditional low houses have been adapted into boutiques and bars, creating a [[bohemian]] feel. The square has a crafts fair.
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===Palermo Hollywood===

In the mid-nineties a number of TV and Radio producers installed themselves in the zone between Córdoba, Santa Fe, Dorrego and Juan B. Justo, Avenues. For that reason this part of the neighborhood began to be called "Palermo Hollywood".
Presently, it's best known for the concentration of restaurants, nightclubs and coffee places.

===Palermo Chico and Barrio Parque===
[[Image:Buenos Aires -Argentina- 108.jpg|thumb|300px|''Palermo Chico'' at night.]]
Across Figueroa Alcorta Avenue, between San Martín de Tours and Tagle streets, ''Palermo Chico'' ("Small" or "Exclusive" Palermo) is the most upmarket part of Palermo. The [[Buenos Aires Museum of Decorative Arts]] is located in Palermo Chico, in a dazzling old palatial home. Neighbouring ''Barrio Parque'' is strictly a residential area, laid out in winding streets by [[Carlos Thays]]; many of the wealthy and famous own homes there. Once a quarter full of splendid mansions set in broad private parks, many luxury condominiums and apartment houses are now to be seen. [[MALBA]], the Museum of Latin American Art in Buenos Aires, is located between Barrio Parque and the [[Paseo Alcorta]] shopping centre.

===Las Cañitas===
Las Cañitas was a tenement district early in the twentieth century; but it has since become an upmarket area of high-rises, restaurants and bars next to the [[Campo Argentino de Polo]], in the northern half of Palermo. The King Fahd Islamic Cultural Centre was built in the 1990s by the Polo fields.

==Highlights==
[[Image:Palermo Panorama.JPG|thumb|420px|Panoramic view of ''Las Cañitas''; the Palermo Woods are at the foreground.]]
The ''[[Parque Tres de Febrero]]'', popularly known as ''Bosques de Palermo'' ('Palermo Woods'), inspired by the ''[[Bois de Boulogne]]'' in [[Paris]] and the [[Prater]] (or ''Vienna Meadow'') in [[Vienna]], is the largest ''green lung'' in the city of Buenos Aires. With its ''Rosedal'' ('Rose Garden'), Andalusian Courtyard, huge artificial lake and beautifully landscaped promenades, this is one of the loveliest spots in the Capital.

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Nationwide
Created byDerrick Amoore
StarringPresenters included:
Michael Barratt
Bob Wellings
Sue Lawley
Frank Bough
Sue Cook
David Dimbleby
John Stapleton
Suzanne Hall
Valerie Singleton
Hugh Scully
Richard Kershaw
Laurie Mayer
Country of originUK
No. of episodes3131
Production
Running time50mins
Original release
NetworkBBC One
Release1969 –
1983

Nationwide was a BBC current affairs television series 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 (on Fridays). It ran from 9 September 1969 to 5 August 1983,[1] when 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 issues 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.[2]

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 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.

The show was used in an influential cultural/media studies project at the University of Birmingham, known as The Nationwide Project. The name also provided inspiration to the former Co-operative Permanent Building Society who, in 1971 renamed themselves the Nationwide Building Society.

Thatcher On the Spot

Wikiquote has quotations related to Diana Gould.

Perhaps the most famous interview occurred in May 1983 during a general election special of its "On the Spot" feature. Mrs Diana Gould, a geography teacher from Cirencester, persistently challenged Margaret Thatcher about her ordering of the sinking of the General Belgrano when it was sailing away from the Falklands. Mrs Thatcher denied that the Belgrano had been sailing away, but Mrs. Gould quoted map references and continued to push her point across, encouraged - so the Conservative party claimed - by presenter Sue Lawley. When Mrs Thatcher asked her whether she accepted that the Belgrano had been a danger to British shipping when it was sunk, Mrs Gould told her that she did not. Thatcher then proclaimed that "I think it could only be in Britain that a British Prime Minister could be asked why she took action to protect our ships against an enemy ship that was a danger to our shipping", and was extremely angry about the BBC for allowing the question.[3] Thatcher's husband Denis lashed out at Roger Bolton, the editor of the programme, in the entertainment suite, saying that his wife had been "stitched up by bloody BBC poofs and Trots".[4] As a result, Thatcher became increasingly hostile to the BBC and never again set foot on BBC premises[citation needed]. She often gave access to rival networks first and only would meet the BBC at Downing Street.

Archive status

As a contemporary programme Nationwide was only recorded on broadcast videotape in the event of possible complaint or litigation; after a period of time tapes would be wiped and re-used although filmed reports were archived. Consequently only a few complete editions exist in their original form.

However, in his book The Television Heritage (1989), author Steve Bryant claimed that "a virtually complete collection of the BBC magazine programme Nationwide from 1971 to 1980" existed as domestic recordings.[5] He wrote:

"Already virtually doomed is material held on early domestic tape formats manufactured by Sony, Shibaden and Philips. The pictures from these tapes are very poor - indeed, the Sony and Shibaden reel-to-reel tapes are monochrome only - but some unique collections exist on these formats. Most significant is a virtually complete collection of the BBC magazine programme Nationwide from 1971 to 1980, mostly on Sony and Shibaden, but on Philips for the programmes after 1977. This collection is held by the NFA (National Film Archive) and represents the only copies of the complete programmes in existence.

The BBC has all the film reports and a small selection of pre-recorded video inserts, but the programmes themselves were live and were not recorded off-air. Neither the machinery nor the funds are currently available to save the contents of these tapes, so a valuable daily record of British life in the 70s, including a large number of live interviews with leading politicians and celebrities of the time, looks like being lost."[6]

But the British Film Institute website has stated more recently that "so far we have successfully dubbed 500 [Philips] N-1500 [tapes] as part of an HLF-Funded Nationwide preservation project"[7]

References

  1. ^ Jeff Evans, (1995) The Guinness Television Encyclopedia. Middlesex: Guinness. ISBN 0-85112-744-4
  2. ^ OFF THE TELLY: Factual/The Good Word
  3. ^ Michael Cockerell, (1988) Live from Number 10: The Inside Story of Prime Ministers and Television. page 238, London: Faber & Faber. ISBN 0-571-14757-7
  4. ^ BBC News | UK | TV's top 10 tantrums
  5. ^ When domestic video recorders had become available in the early 1970s, the BBC started making Programme as broadcast (PasB) recordings of most news and current affairs programmes - until then only audio recordings had been made for future editorial review purposes.
  6. ^ Bryant, Steve (1989). The Television Heritage.
  7. ^ "Obsolete Technology". British Film Institute. 2003-07. Retrieved 2008-10-19. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

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