''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,

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. 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''.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