''Current Account'' is a British current affairs television programme that was broadcast from 1968 until May 1983 on

BBC Television BBC Television is a service of the BBC. The corporation has operated a Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, public broadcast television service in the United Kingdom, under the terms of a royal charter, since 1 January 1927. It p ...

in Scotland. Among its various presenters were

Donald MacCormick Donald MacCormick (16 April 1939 – 12 July 2009)Veteran BBC newsman dies aged 70
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George Reid Sir George Houston Reid (25 February 1845 – 12 September 1918) was a Scottish-born Australian and British politician, diplomat, and barrister who served as the fourth Prime Minister of Australia, prime minister of Australia from 1904 t ...

and

Kenneth Roy Kenneth Roy (26 March 1945 – 5 November 2018) was a Scottish journalist, writer and broadcaster. Roy was born in Falkirk. His father, an engineer, and mother, an office worker, were involved in amateur theatre there. He attended Denny High Scho ...

. Transmitted weekly on a Thursday at 20:30 it consisted of a one subject filmed or one studio report. Its editor was Matthew Spicer. During the run-up to the

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it had a sister programme dealing only with politics called ''

Public Account ''Public Account'' was a weekly political programme first transmitted on 6 January 1975 by BBC Television in Scotland. It was the sister programme to BBC Scotland's Current Account which covered general current affairs issues rather than ...

''.Alastair Hetherington. ''Inside BBC Scotland'', p. 48 (Whitewater Press).

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* BBC television news shows BBC Scotland television shows {{BBC-tv-prog-stub