Public Account

''Public Account'' was a weekly political programme first transmitted on 6 January 1975 by

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. It was the sister programme to BBC Scotland's Current Account which covered general current affairs issues rather than politics. ''Public Account'' was transmitted mainly on BBC1 Scotland on Mondays after 22.45. It was designed to reflect the increased interest in politics in Scotland with the discovery of oil in the North Sea and the rise of the fortunes of the

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. It covered politics up to the first Devolution Referendum held by the Callaghan Labour government. The last programme was shown on 3 July 1978. Ground-breaking in its approach to Scottish and British politics, it was presented by

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