Richard Dimbleby: “Thank you, son”

While poll mania was breaking last night, Archive on 4 had a marvellous programme,‘A Night to Remember’, looking back on 60 years of election nights.

Listen out for a young David Dimbleby reporting from a count in October 1964.

Bob McKenzie’s simple swingometer, still used by the BBC, will have its work cut out on 6 May.