'This Week' Theme 

Agree. Along with world in action & weekend world.

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?

Jean Sibelius’s music is very haunting.

Before Britain as a whole went downmarket.

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.

raw 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

@@RichardSmith-ew3xz 😂😂😂😂 And of much better quality as well.

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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.

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.

Awesome tune, I remember this as a child.

Yep me too

Bring back This Week.

Don't forget TV Eye.

On a street in a British city. Unimaginable just a few years previously and hopefully a scene never to be repeated again.

Totally agree, fantastic.!!¡

Too bleedin' right!!!

Not only cheap and nasty today, it's tacky too.

TV Eye, and on the BBC were Panorama and On The Record. All sorely missed today.

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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No....its about as dangerous as it ever was .

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.

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

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

Finland's Jan Sibelius.

Sibelius. Karelia Suite

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 .

Loved the Nice in the 60s and still do now 👍🏼👍🏼

Emerson 👍👍👍

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!