Level | Item |
Ref No | OHP/103 |
Title | Peter Yapp |
Date | 29 September 1998 |
Extent | 1 audio tape, 1 cd, 1 file, 1 AIFF file (538.2 MB) |
Creator Name | Yapp; Peter Gordon; administration director |
Description | Interview with Peter Yapp, administration director for the Guardian. Conducted by Leslie Plommer on 29 September 1998. Also includes a data sheet containing biographical details about the subject and information about the recording.
Summary contents of interview (with rough timings):
Disc 1: Track 1 00.00 Introduction 00.40 Recruitment into newspaper industry 01.07 Continues with talk about interviews with Express, Mirror and Manchester Evening News as a messenger 02.50 Offered messenger position by Norman Liptrott personnel 03.30 Offered publishing room position 04.40 Became union committee official at aged 21 05.37 Duties of a composing room messenger 08.10 Publishing room duties sending out copies to readership areas
10.18 Dealing mostly with Manchester Evening News, and at times the Guardian 11.45 Creating copy bundles in publishing room 16.05 Undertaking official capacity with National Association of Printers and Assistants Union 17.50 Merge with Evening Chronicle and readership figures 19.25 Change of Manchester Guardian to the Guardian
20.30 Union meetings about the move to London and closure of Evening Chronicle 21.10 Availability of other positions if made redundant in 1960s 22.00 Subsiding of the Guardian through Manchester Evening News 22.30 Negotiating sessions between unions and management 23.40 Peter Yapp invited to join management based in London 28.20 Disagreements between management and labour differences between Manchester and London 29.30 Bargaining power in 1960s due to increasing circulation figures
30.00 Move from Cross Street to Deans Gate 30.25 Financial difficulties in 1960s leading to negotiation of pay freeze 31.40 Move by Lord Thompson to take over part of the Guardian 32.00 Working with the Scott family and loans given by Charles Scott 34.50 Martin Scott's various positions with the Guardian 37.35 Move from Cross Street to Deans Gate, August 1970
40.25 Manchester Evening News - Munich air disaster death of Tom Jackson 42.10 Tom Henry as editor 43.30 Management relations comparing past to present day 44.20 Presence of Wapping changed union structures 45.40 View of the Guardian as the best office in Fleet Street due to working relations
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Access Status | Open |
Access Conditions | Access to recording via GNM Digital Repository |
Format | Electronic record |
CD recording |
Printed document |
Tape recording |
Copyright | Guardian News & Media Ltd and Peter Yapp |
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