Style
Twenty-Four Hours was conceived with the intention of being very different from other current affairs programmes at the time. Critical to the point of confrontational, it abandoned the orthodox reverential rules of engagement with politicians and took a tougher, more modern approach to interviews. Twenty-Four Hours used a combination of panel discussions and studio debates, usually with an invited "expert" audience. The programme also featured documentary films or "packages" presented by its reporters Michael Parkinson, Fyfe Robertson, Michael Aspel, Julian Pettifer, Bernard Falk and David Jessel, among others.
It undoubtedly helped establish an approach to television current affairs that can still be seen to this day and is in many ways the forerunner to BBC2's present day current affairs flagship Newsnight.
Production paperwork, Radio Times and BBC Archive library all list the title "Twenty-Four Hours" in words, while the programmes logo used numerals "24 Hours".
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