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Journalists in the News: The Day Today first broadcast 30 years ago
The ground-breaking, hilarious The Day Today was first broadcast on the BBC exactly 30 years ago today.
The legendary show, created by Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris, was a satirical news programme that mercilessly mocked the great and the good.
The stories were ridiculous – the prime minister fighting the Queen, police eating their suspects and passengers resorting to paganism after getting stuck on a train in Hampshire – but they often managed to highlight institutional flaws better than the sober reporting on the flagship television news shows.
News anchor Chris Morris was joined by hapless reporters such as economic correspondent Peter O’Hanraha-hanrahan and business correspondent Collaterlie Sisters but the breakout star of the series was a young sports reporter called Alan Partridge.