Michael Barratt (1969–1977)[1] Bob Langley (1970–1972) Esther Rantzen (1970–1972) Bob Wellings (1971–1980) Bernard Falk (1972–1978) Valerie Singleton (1972–1978) Richard Stilgoe (1972–1978) Frank Bough (1972–1982) James Hogg (1972–1983) Sue Lawley (1972–1975 & 1978–1983) John Stapleton (1975–1980) Martin Young (1973–1979) Hugh Scully (1978–1983) Sue Cook (1980–1983) Richard Kershaw (1980–1983) David Dimbleby (1982) Laurie Mayer

Once they had handed back to Lime Grove Studios in London, the regions remained on standby to participate in feedback and two-way interviews to be transmitted across the whole BBC network.

Thatcher denied that the Belgrano had been sailing away, but Gould quoted map references and continued to push her point across, encouraged – so the Conservative Party claimed – by presenter Sue Lawley.

[7] Thatcher's husband Denis lashed out at Roger Bolton, the editor of the programme, in the entertainment suite, saying that his wife had been "stitched up by bloody BBC poofs and Trots".

As a contemporary programme Nationwide was only recorded on broadcast videotape in case of possible complaint or litigation; after a period of time tapes would be wiped and re-used although filmed reports were archived.

However, in his book The Television Heritage (1989), author Steve Bryant claimed that "a virtually complete collection of the BBC magazine programme Nationwide from 1971 to 1980" existed as domestic recordings.

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.

[10] 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 £13.5 million of National Lottery funding.