Level | Item |
Ref No | OHP/80 |
Title | Tom Sharratt |
Date | 31 May 2002 |
Extent | 1 minidisc, 1 cd, 1 file, 4 AIFF files (793 MB) |
Creator Name | Sharratt; Tom; journalist |
Description | Interview with Tom Sharratt, journalist for the Guardian. Conducted by Leslie Plommer on 31 May 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 00.50 Aspirations to work for the Guardian. Previous career at Lancashire Evening Telegraph & Daily Telegraph 04.25 First impressions upon joining foreign desk - 'everyone known by their initials' 05.58 Cuttings on the walls with reference to delivery methods to Manchester suburbs 06.59 CP Scott's traditions 08.30 Foreign editors 09.10 Moving to new office complex
11.30 Big changes in 1976 with large amount of production transferred to London 11.30 Applying for job as a reporter, which had been agreed to by Alastair Hetherington 12.39 Scholarship to Australia in 1971, and being allowed extra holiday time 14.40 Adoption of 'provincial' printing ideas in 1974 after he'd seen in Australia
Track 2 00.30 Northern news editor, Harry Whewell 02.44 Paddy Monkhouse 03.10 Alastair Hetherington's change in stance on Vietnam 06.57 Briefing in Hawaii 07.34 Routine of ringing foreign correspondents for dictation of story - copies made by 'the girls over in Cross Street' 08.52 Alistair Cooke's writing style, and advice on writing, 'listen to the sound of the words'
10.02 On Alistair Cooke's obituary of Walt Disney 11.00 Copying & corrections, composing and compositions
Track 3 00.30 First piece on the death of the inventor of Cat's eyes 01.50 Ringing up people for information. On his attitude to bereavement in writing obituaries 03.19 Barbara Castle 11.44 Call from Anne McHardy, Assistant News editor about Lockerbie plane crash 13.47 Getting to Lockerbie. Giving two doctors a lift 15.37 Reaching crash site 17.02 Interviewing Doctors 17.48 Meeting Peter Hetherington in Lockerbie town 18.13 Press Conference, initiative of communicating report with all phone-lines down 19.17 The next day 'all the fields were covered in tinsel' 19.18 First supposition on what might have caused the crash
23.00 Attitudes of the press to disasters, including Manchester Airport disaster 24.41 Political interests 25.46 First conference at TUC in Blackpool. Encouraged by Keith Harper 27.16 Interest in police matters, crime and home affairs 28.26 'I'd been to more prisons than most villains'. 28.26 Invitation to be a guest speaker at a police federation conferences in 1981/2
30.00 Looking for the oddities in life, including world worm charming championships in the late 1980s 32.30 Incidences of using pictures of a story and leaving out the journalists work 34.49 Relationship with Peter Preston 35.34 Elected as councillor on Lancashire County Council as a member of the Labour Party 37.18 Resigned from Transport & General Workers Union (TGU) in 1990 37.45 False allegations against himself and his membership being withheld in 1996
Track 4 00.01 Brutality he witnessed towards women in the TGU 01.41 Role and influence of the union in local politics 02.55 The unions interest in political power
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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 Tom Sharratt |
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