Level | Item |
Ref No | OHP/88 |
Title | Mary Stott |
Date | 26 July 2001 |
Extent | 2 minidiscs, 2 cds, 1 file, 9 AIFF files (801.3 MB) |
Creator Name | Stott; Charlotte Mary (1907-2002); journalist |
Description | Interview with Mary Stott, woman's editor for the Guardian. Conducted by Terry Coleman on 26 July 2001. 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: Tracks 1-2 Test
Track 3 01.16 Journalism was a vocation - 'smitten' when thinking of being a journalist 02.21 Loved smell of newsprint - used to go to Leicester Mercury when she was very young 03.40 Bolton Evening News. Recalls Tillotson family who ran paper 04.42 Early political memory of Winston Churchill 06.37 'I was a socialist when I was a girl' 07.12 Witnessed the procession of Hitler and Mussolini in Rome whilst on holiday 09.24 Working for Manchester Evening News was 'thrilling... loved subbing'
10.33 'The one paper I wanted to work for was the Guardian' 11.15 Discusses husband 12.33 Wrote to Guardian and asked for job. Interviewed by Alastair Heatherington 12.33 Suggested starting woman's page to AP Wadsworth 14.40 Discusses Heatherington. Got editorship because he was young. Not very chatty 15.29 Worked part-time as still had young daughter. 17.05 Remembers former colleagues 19.02 John Rosselli - 'very nice man...one of my favourite Guardian colleagues'
Tracks 4-5 Test
Track 6 00.01 Alison Adburgham, Betty Thorne, Fiona McCarthy, Jill Tweedie. 03.53 Christopher Driver 04.41 Peter Preston - found him hard to communicate with 07.22 By early 1970s felt that editorship of women's page had drifted out of her hands 09.09 Discusses 'Guardian women'
10.45 Being a woman in workplace - harder to get promoted. 'God bless the NUJ' for equal pay 13.03 Wanted to use women's page to broaden women's interests 14.33 Discusses OBE 16.38 Differences between Guardian women pages and other papers 17.57 Guardian women were 'teachers and teachers wives' 18.54 Pleased when the Guardian tried to expand readership 19.21 Portrait in Portrait Gallery - daughter said 'you look very grumpy'
21.11 Successor Linda Christmas and then Suzanne Lowry 22.10 Given lunch by the Guardian for her 90th birthday
Tracks 7 00.25 How the women's page has changed today. What Mary would do differently today as women's editor 01.35 Women as readers. Women then living in the kitchen and the nursery. How things have changed today for women 04.50 Time at the Manchester Evening News 06.00 Problems facing women in the 1970s
Track 8 00.10 Salary at the Guardian 01.25 Discussion of portrait of her grandmother
Disc 2: Track 1 00.00 Starts mid sentence talking about grandparents 01.23 Interviewer suggests feminists are fierce 03.34 Most memorable article was 'learning to be a widow' in 1967 05.40 'In those days women didn't have much chance of making their views known' 06.38 Not many women journalists in Mary Stott's early days. Rebecca West was an important influence 08.27 Didn't like London office, Manchester had more room
12.00 Looking through her book collection 14.36 Discusses music - Mary sings and plays piano
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Access Status | Open |
Access Conditions | Access to recording via GNM Digital Respository |
Format | Electronic record |
CD recording |
Printed document |
Minidisc recording |
Copyright | Guardian News & Media Ltd and Mary Stott's estate |
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