Tune into at 9:45pm GMT on 4 July 2024 for ITN Archive’s Alternative Election Night, a spectacular mashup of every ITN overnight election programme from 1959 to 1997. Throughout the night, ITN Archive will bring you the most iconic moments from British electoral history, as well as the most characterful ITN election night programming from over the years.

It doesn’t just feature every titanic figure of post-war British politics: you can expect to see all of the UK’s most famous political personalities at different ages and stages of their careers. Watch Thatcher sit as a wine-drinking panel member on the 1970 election programme; see her iconic interview with Jon Snow upon arriving at Downing Street in 1979; and watch her live reaction to Tony Blair’s victory in 1997. Watch Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell concede the 1959 election in a live interview with ITN. Watch the political stars of Harold Wilson and Edward Heath rise and fall with the shifting of the British political landscape through the '60s and '70s. Watch Diane Abbott become the UK’s first black female MP in 1987. Watch Michael Portillo lose his seat ten years later. Watch students run riot in the fountains of Trafalgar Square in 1966. Meet the computers: Deuce, the 1959 result-analysing machine; and KDF-6, the singing star of the 1964 programme. And hear the fabulous election night theme songs from each decade. Clement Attlee, Harold Macmillan, Michael Foot, Jeremy Thorpe, David Owen, Enoch Powell, Tony Benn, James Callaghan: they're all here, presented to you by ITN icons and heavyweights from Reggie Bosanquet to Alastair Burnet to Jon Snow. Election junkies, politics nerds, history geeks, and lovers of retro British television: there’s something here for everyone. Only on ‪@ITNArchive‬.

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