What the Papers Say in pictures

Granada launched What the Papers Say in its inaugural broadcast year of 1956. The first show was presented by Brian Inglis, the deputy editor of the Spectator, who went on to present 170 programmes. (The New Statesman got its turn the following week.) Photograph: Public domain

Bernard Levin, then a theatre critic for the Daily Mail, presenting the show in 1963. He went on to win What the Papers Say’s columnist of the year in 1969. Check out the size of that camera! Photograph: ITV/Rex Features

The studio in 1975. Simon Hoggart recalls presenting in the early 1970s involved a first-class rail trip from London and a sandwich lunch at Granada's Quay Street office in Manchester, before attempting to read the entire 20-minute script in one take Photograph: Public domain

Clive James had hair - who knew? And what hair - in this WTPS shot from 1975, he appears to have come hotfoot from auditioning for An Australian Werewolf in London Photograph: ITV/Rex Features

The late Bill Deedes, then Daily Telegraph editor, collecting an award for newspaper of the year from Liberal politician David Steel in 1975 Photograph: Public domain

Daily Mail foreign correspondent Ann Leslie, now Dame Ann, presenting in 1982 - the year the show transferred from ITV to fledgling station Channel 4 Photograph: ITV/Rex Features

Titles from the 1980s. In 1989 the show moved from Channel 4 to its current home of BBC2, becoming the first BBC programme produced by an ITV company. Photograph: Public domain

Simon Hoggart, writer and broadcaster, presenting the show in the late 1980s. He now writes the political sketch and a Saturday column for the Guardian. Wearing less scary glasses Photograph: Public domain

1993 - and the show's title sequence had ditched its previous broadsheet look for a soaraway tabloid feel Photograph: Public domain

Politician Ann Widdecombe presents the Observer's Roger Alton with the editor of the year prize in 2000 Photograph: R

The What the Papers Say awards took a Harry Potter-esque turn in 2001 with a Rita Skeeter-style green quill trapped inside a slab of Perspex Photograph: ITV/Rex Features

The Guardian’s editor Alan Rusbridger accepts the editor of the year award in 2001 from defence secretary Geoff Hoon Photograph: PA

Defence secretary Geoff Hoon presents Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan with the newspaper of the year award in 2001 Photograph: PA Photos

Boris Johnson accepts his award for columnist of the year from former Tory colleague and Olympic bid organiser Sebastian Coe in 2005 Photograph: Cheryl Hart/Rex Features