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." The British Film Institute website stated in 2003 "so far we have successfully dubbed 500 [Philips] N-1500 [tapes] as part of an HLF-funded Nationwide preservation project". In November 2016, the BFI's holdings of Nationwide, described as being on an "exceptionally rare" video format, were included in a list of 100,000 most at risk television episodes which were to be digitised following £13.5m of National Lottery funding. Documentaries Let's Go Nationwide, BBC2, 1991; Transmitted as part of The Lime Grove Story, 26 August 1991, marking the closing of the studios It's Time to Go Nationwide, BBC4, 2009; Shown 5 February 2009 Notes References External links Let's Go Nationwide, TV Cream Ian Jones, The Good Word, Off the Telly, July 2002 BBC television news shows 1983 British television series endings