'This Week' Theme
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- This Week was a weekly current affairs series first produced for ITV in January 1956 by Associated-Rediffusion (later Thames Television), running until 1978, when it was replaced by TV Eye for eight years.
In 1986, the earlier name was revived and This Week continued until Thames lost its franchise at the end of 1992.
The 1970s titles start @ 1:19 .
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The sound that introduced one of the finest current affairs shows on television at the time.
Ah, these themes...when tv themes were tv themes, and the programmes were of much higher quality than nowadays
Way back when- I was a graphic designer in Rediffusion TV House in Kingsway I played this piece hundreds of times in our department and I got a big surprise when the Pruducer of This Week called in to ask what this music was he found it just the job for his new weekly series THIS WEEK so there lies its 'pedigree' ----------and its still a stunning piece of music !
I was a child in the 60s and this music transfixed me and I began watching the sadly missed This Week because I liked the music so much - so, you indirectly began my fascination all my life for current and political affairs. Wonderful music - gets me every time.
@@cameronaberdeenuk1260 Nice to hear from you yes the good old days when ITV were 'grown up, been a decline now sad to say but that music is still inspiring-----best wishes to you my friend
Thanks very much Mr McMurdo.
Its the first movement of the Karelia Suite by Jean Sibelius. I didn’t discover that for decades
Great job and story. Music can’t be beat - and of course it matched the quality of the reporting that went into it each week. Fast forward to news programmes made today (are there any?) - and what would be the appropriate musical match?
Television before those cheap and nasty reality shows took over and ITV went completely down market...
Before Britain as a whole went downmarket.
Sibelius - a composer unafraid of a good tune!
There is something very haunting about this music.
Jean Sibelius’s music is very haunting.
If this doesn’t touch your soul,nothing will.
Thanks been searching for this for over a decade now I can have that heart attack and die in bliss reminiscing of a better less crowded mercenary country when British television actually had some pride and mindful passion in its productions. :)
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Exactly.
Similar. It's the intermezzo from the Karelia Suite by Sibelius.
There was only 3 TV Stations....there was more to watch when we only had 3
Quite agree, Weekend World with Brian Walden comes to mind, All Our Yesterdays with Brian Inglis too...I’m afraid it’s Robert Peston & Ant & Dec now
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And of much better quality as well.
Please bring back this theme for a news programme, its so electrifying.
Just heard this on Classic FM. Hadn't heard it for 30-odd years. Stunning piece of music and such a great intro for This Week.
For anybody who wants to hear what they remember hearing as the show opened it begins at 1:18
My first memories of this were from around 5 years old and even then it caught me. I wasn't remotely interested in watching it because when so young it was over my head. But it had a sort of sinister gravitas about it that always made me stop and listen.
ozdorothyfan , Sinister gravitas, you’ve said it exactly. That’s why it’s haunted me since I was a wee kidlett & have just spent half and hour of my life searching for it on google.
@Jonah Whale I think that in my young mind the sinister aspect derived from the scenes of grim looking marching soldiers etc on screen while it played.
Spot on .Remeber this from childhood,absolutely no interest in the program but the music is so dramatic it never leaves you.
Thanks for pointing out where the theme begins - that brought back memories of programmes where I loved the theme, but was bored (as I was just a boy) by the show!
Panorama and The Money Programme were other examples. I also loved the theme to What the Papers Say, but also liked the show as it had a wry humour about it.
Like the world in action and weekend world tv themes, this was another great theme 🎶
It is the Intermezzo from The Karelia Suite by Sibelius. I was surprised Portillo didn't mention it explicitly. Great piece of music.
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I thought it was korelius...thank you...getting annoyed..
The Nice did a very fine cover version on the Five Bridges album.
Remember this back in the UK when I was a little kid
Awesome tune, I remember this as a child.
Yep me too
Bring back This Week.
I've had this music in my head for a week! So glad I found this as it was driving me nuts! Thanks!
This takes us back! Thanks for a bit of nostalgia
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Back when people had an attention span.
Too bleedin' right!!!
Back in the days when ITV made top quality television shows instead of cheap and nasty reality shows like love bleeding island and I'm a z list celebrity get me my career back,
Not only cheap and nasty today, it's tacky too.
Watching an old episode of The Sweeney, this was on in the background as Jack Regan was getting ready to go out 1975
One of the few programmes my father would let me stay up and watch in the 60's as a kid and I remember the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War very well indeed.
I used to love the theme tunes to the current affairs shows that were on when I was a kid; this, Man Alive, World In Action and Panorama all had great themes. I used to watch them all too, with the exception of Panorama, which for some reason never grabbed me.
I remember the programme This week i used to watched it on the every Thursday night when I'm a little kid in the seventies eighties unit 1992 when Thames Television lost the franchise
Don't forget TV Eye.
ITV before they dumbed down and the crap took over
Quite agree, Brian Inglis & All Our Yesterdays comes to mind as does Brian Walden with Weekend World, now we have Peston, Ant & Dec
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The part of the opening credits when the British army soldier raises his rifle always used to give me a bit of a shiver.
On a street in a British city. Unimaginable just a few years previously and hopefully a scene never to be repeated again.
This Week if I remember came out on either a Wednesday or Thursday, I was a kid and lived watching this , fantastic program and one which made you thing , add World in Action and Weekend World and my god we really had some current affairs and political programs to be proud of, now watching the magic roundabout has more common sense than watching any tv news or current affairs programs , complete tripe ….
TV Eye, and on the BBC were Panorama and On The Record.
All sorely missed today.
This music makes me wish i was 7 again in 1970 instead of nearly 60!!
Magnificent!!
Totally agree, fantastic.!!¡
Lifts the spirit and soul. So inspiring.
Magnificent from Sibelius 'Karelia Suite'. The headlines news was always glamorous in the early 60s; with this music as its audio backdrop.
I remember as a child wanting to be on the news, emerging from some famous door, coming down steps onto some famous street; whilst flashing camera lights held me serenely in view, at some historic moment in time. It never happened I'm afraid 😂
Absolutely brilliant. Thanks for posting!
Living in Finland doing a finnish language course:just read the british news in finnish with this as an intro:get in!!!
I always remember the cable cars at the intro to this programme
Wow just found this on UA-cam this programme music reminds me of the troubles in N.I. At the time 😆
Thank you - I've been looking for this for ages
How I miss my childhood and all the intros.
Great journalistic programme !!!!
I have this on tape.
"Listen up! There's some serious sh*t going down!"
Always excited as a kid to listen to this program and of course theme , the world s a more dangerous place now I’m afraid 😱
No....its about as dangerous as it ever was .
Karelia by Sibelius - BBC R3 always playing it !!!!!!!
Great piece of music reminds me of Bakewell boys school back in 1970 thankyou .
I caught it as a child in the 1970's on Granada TV
Splendid
What is the matter with TV Operators these days? , why not broadcast proper shows like "This Week", "Panorama", "The London Programme", "Weekend World", "World in Action", and we will make our our own mind up.
Blame deregulation, media consolidation, the rise of social media, etc.
Thanks for replying. Yes, it has all changed, all too instant, rather than wait for Monday night's "World in Action", or Sunday's "Weekend World", and "London Programme", take it in and think, it is all there at the touch of a smartphone,(which I do not have and don't want one), as well as as the theme music, one my favourites was for "This Week" Sibelius, Karelia Suite, and the haunting World in Action theme by Mick Weaver.
"Weekend World" was originally presented by Peter Jay, son in law of James Callaghan, he of the big four, Chancellor, Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary, then Prime Minister, never been done before or since but later by Brian Walden, former MP for Birmingham Ladywood. What a decent, balanced, polite fellow he was.
"The London Programme", was fronted by Godfrey Hodgson, John Taylor, Gavin Weightman, and Trevor Philips, who later became the Chair of the Commission of Racial Equality. Look at the standard of such programmes, all out there on You Tube.@@souvikrc4499
brilliant
what a beauty. cheers
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This is often played on Classic FM.
Nah, that's Ravel's Bolero you're thinking of!
@@manjacovus5342 Actually this is played a lot on Classic FM.
Well Sibelius’s Karelia Suite is always worth playing
this week ended in 1992 to be exact, all they did was change the name for a while, one of the most informus programes they did was called Death on the rock
Anthony Mcdonnell 👍
Maggie took revenge for Death on the Rock just before she left power. Thames TV lost its franchise from 1.1.92.
Thames TV lost their broadcast license for daring to tell the truth about Gibralter.
Bollocks. It was World in Action that did Death on the rock.
Jean Sibelius- Karelia Suite.
I was aware of this documentary series being on ITV in the late 80s (is that correct?), maybe after 'TV Eye'. I always loved the theme tune, but even though I was learning classical instruments at the time, it wasn't until the early 90s when I was at university, that I learned the them is the Intermezzo from The Karelia Suite by Norway's Jean Sibelius. 🎼👏🏾⭐❤
Finland's Jan Sibelius.
Were This Week and TV Eye the same programme?
These hard hitting documentary shows are badly missed from weekday evenings on ITV.
If This Weeks was around today Boris Johnson would be frantically trying to get the scheduled show scrapped if there was a scandal involving himself due to be exposed on it.
Sibelius Karelia suite Op 11
Sibelius
I heard the Karelia Suite copied by a group called " The Nice" back in 72. Song begins good, but seems to lose it's way.
Thank you.
Wish I could remember the name of the composer and the piece.
Sibelius. Karelia Suite
keith emerson rip, the Nice
Weekend world was best
It's a classic piece of music, and just heard it Michael Portillo 's show of railways. But what's the music called?
Choo-Choo Portillo brought me here too! I thought it was "This Week" (but in a previous incarnation). Nice coincidence.
Grant Grove I'm glad I found someone one else in good taste. Any fav Portillo episodes?
Hi! Well it's just great feel-good tv and as we know ;) it more about people than trains. But i really love how it shows some lovely places that you just wouldn't expect. I've never considered going to Finland but I'd love to now. :)
It is called the 'Karelia Suite' and is by Finnish composerJean Sibelius.
It was also performed by The Nice (Pre Emerson Lake and Palmer) and it is a very great version performed live. I think it is on their Five Bridges Suite LP .
Wrong version. Thames used:
Alexander Gibson | LSO on Decca.
CAN ANYONE REMEMBER THE FRONTIER CLUB AFTER IT WAS THE VARITEY CLUB BRADFORD ROAD BATLEY WHEN THE DID THE LIGHTS DISPLAY THIS WAS PLAYED WOULD LIKE TO HEAR SOME COMENTS PLEASE
All Our Yesterday theme.
Anyone know what the current affair program was that had Beethoven s moonlight sonata as its theme song. I think it was in the 80s
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Yer me too raw always stuck in my head never could find it dam powerful should be uk prime minister
holly shit
i remember the machine gun
Didn't john tuohy present
This is music not your X factor 💩
SApelleed it wrong again.......korelius,,,no...of course this week,...rousing
when we had news not wef propaganda
Prefer the Nice's version !
Loved the Nice in the 60s and still do now 👍🏼👍🏼
Emerson 👍👍👍
This was the good old days before the BBC became a crusading homosexual boys club and KGB style propaganda hub.
It was the good old days. Then we didn’t have so many neo-Nazis spouting conspiracy theories.
Except that This Week was on ITV
@@Chris-mf1rm Ignorance is a choice in this age of information.
Not the most intelligent of posts.
Still looking for reds under the bed 2?
Oh very good, another "B*ggers Broadcasting Communism" quip, only 60 years late (and under an ITV show at that). Get back to GBeebies and take your opinions with you!