Level | Item |
Ref No | OHP/79 |
Title | Richard Scott |
Date | 1 November 1998 |
Extent | 2 audio tapes, video cassette, 2 cds, 1 file, 1 mov file (13.71 GB), 3 AIFF files (1.59 GB) |
Creator Name | Scott; Richard Farquhar (1914-2011); journalist and Chairman of the Scott Trust |
Description | Interview with Richard Scott, journalist for the Guardian and Chairman of the Scott Trust. Conducted by Jonathan Steele on 1 November 1998. Also includes a video recording of the interview although there is no audible sounds, and a 35 page transcript.
Summary contents of interview (with rough timings):
Disc 1: Track 1 01.30 Started working for League of Nations, followed by the Spectator and then the British Consulate 04.10 Went to work for British Official Wireless - wrote 'official news' 06.41 Moved into news department proper. Covered peace talks after war 09.01 Discusses Attlee's relationship with Russians
10.30 First piece written for the Guardian was Marshall Speech, 1947 12.53 Guardian London offices in 40-43 Fleet Street were 'squalid'
20.23 Reputation of Manchester Guardian and compared with other papers 22.19 Guardian's foreign correspondence under Voigt and Wolf 23.17 Suez crisis - did not realise level of collaboration between French, Iraq and Britain at time 28.05 Anglo-Iranian oil nationalisation
30.52 Tito breaking from the Soviet Union 32.40 Tensions in post-war Germany 33.33 Life as a diplomatic correspondent and travelling 37.38 Independence of India - coverage and view of Guardian 38.35 Gandhi went to Manchester to see CP. Scott
41.06 Difference between foreign correspondent/ diplomatic correspondent 42.34 Impact of introduction of bylines 44.10 Memories of grandfather CP Scott and Montague family 44.10 Family Christmas dinner, attitudes to religion and sport
53.16 Austereness of CP Scott - joked and laughed at home 55.10 How people lined the street 7 or 8 deep for CP Scott's funeral 59.30 Domestic side to CP Scott
Disc 2: Track 1 00.00 Continuation of the domestic side of CP Scott
Track 2 00.00 His own schooling and going to school with Donald Maclean 00.40 Worked with Guy Burgess - disappeared to Russia from flat that Richard sublet to him 02.50 Donald Maclean 03.40 Inaudible to end of track
Track 3 00.00 The move to London and dropping of the word Manchester from the title 01.00 Compares the Guardian then to the Guardian now
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Access Status | Open |
Access Conditions | Access to recording via GNM Digital Repository |
Format | Electronic record |
Printed document |
CD recording |
Tape recording |
Video recording |
Copyright | Guardian News & Media Ltd and Richard Scott |
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