Editing Week Ending (section)

==Broadcast==

Until 1983, ''Week Ending'' was taken off the air during election campaigns. As sensitivities eased, it was allowed to remain on air during the 1987, 1992 and 1997 elections, albeit with rigid levels of political balance.

During the 1980s and 1990s, the [[BBC World Service]] broadcast a highlights programme once a month. This would include sketches from ''Week Ending'' episodes transmitted during the previous four weeks, more usually the items that could easily be understood by an international audience. This was broadcast by the World Service, usually on the last Friday of the month, under the title of "Two Cheers for ''[month]'' ". For many years, there was also an annual highlights show, akin to ''Year Ending'', called "Two Cheers for 1982" (etc.).

From the early 1980s, the theme tune was a loop of the instrumental section of [[Associates (band)|The Associates]]' 1982 hit "[[Party Fears Two]]", which replaced the original 'whistled' flute piece, "Smokey Joe". Over the years, the tune changed a number of times – totalling four pieces, the third debuting in 1993 and the fourth in 1997 – but the final edition in 1998 finished with the original (each of the others having been heard briefly in sketches set in earlier decades).