Level | Item |
Ref No | OHP/56 |
Title | David Marquand |
Date | 31 January 2002 |
Extent | 1 minidisc, 1 cd, 1 file, 2 AIFF files (675.4 MB) |
Creator Name | Marquand; David Ian (1934-); journalist, politician and academic |
Description | Interview with David Marquand, leader-writer for the Guardian. Conducted by Malcolm Dean on 31 January 2002. 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 01.06 Torn between academic work and journalism 01.58 Refused editorship of Isis, student paper at Oxford University 02.42 Year as a graduate student at St. Anthony's 02.56 Postgraduate year in America at the University of Berkley 03.19 Offered a summer job at the Guardian whilst still at St. Anthony's 04.42 Discusses summer job as a leader-writer in Manchester 05.36 Returned from America 05.40 Offered a job at the New Statesman but advised to return to the Guardian 06.09 Moved to Manchester to join the Guardian 06.42 Discusses the Guardian reporting on the Suez crisis 07.45 First impressions of the Guardian 08.15 Discusses sharing a room with Frank Edmead, leader-writer
10.10 Didn't have leader conferences at this time 10.50 Started work at 4pm, finished by 11pm 12.36 Discusses the standard format for writing 'bi-laterals' 12.56 Explains 'bi-laterals' - long, a two par, and a short 14.33 Deadline for submissions was 8pm 14.45 Remit was supposed to be foreign affairs 15.33 How Alastair Hetherington edited leader-writing 16.24 Generating article ideas and access to information 18.53 Relationship with other staff members
20.29 Significant stories during his time at the Guardian 22.20 Central Manchester was very bleak and quiet 23.13 Lived in Didsbury, where CP Scott and 'everybody lived' 23.40 Discusses the Cuban crisis 26.50 Guardian's position on Lib-Lab
30.08 Hugh Gaitskell's famous 'fight, fight, fight' speech in 1961 31.52 Another big issue at the time was the economy and common market 33.16 The removal of 'Manchester' from title and news on the front page 34.08 Anecdote: Guardian ran a front page story predicting the wrong 1959 election result 36.02 How the Guardian felt about the Tory Government 39.38 Guardian was like a graduate school 39.57 Employees were 'intellectually high class... some remarkable people'
40.12 Moved to London in Autumn 1961 40.38 Offer from the Observer to work one day a week 40.51 Bargained with Alastair to work at the Guardian two days a week 41.15 Discusses John Maddox, Bill Webb and Harold Griffiths 42.30 Remembers debates with Leonard Beaton 44.08 Discusses foreign coverage, America, Iceland, Paris 47.46 'It wasn't a subs paper it was a writers paper' 48.37 Alastair Hetherington and his writing style
52.14 Still no leader conferences in London 53.44 Offered a lectureship in 1962 and left the Guardian 54.41 Continued to write for the Guardian post 1962 54.56 Opinion of the Guardian today 55.27 How to pitch writing style for Guardian readers, writing for the elite 60.57 How politicians view and respond to the press
Track 2 Test
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Access Status | Open |
Access Conditions | Access to recording via GNM Digital Repository |
Format | Electronic record |
CD recording |
Printed document |
Minidisc recording |
Copyright | Guardian News & Media Ltd and David Marquand |
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