Level | Item |
Ref No | OHP/60 |
Title | Geoffrey Moorhouse |
Date | 22 January 2002 |
Extent | 1 minidisc, 1 cd, 1 file, 3 AIFF files (692.1 MB) |
Creator Name | Moorhouse; Geoffrey (1931-2009); journalist and writer |
Description | Interview with Geoffrey Moorhouse, features writer for the Guardian. Conducted by Caroline Boucher on 22 January 2002. Also includes notes written by Martin Wainwright after the interview.
Summary contents of interview (with rough timings):
Disc 1: Track 1 00.00 Joined the Guardian as sub-editor in 1958, became chief features writer in 1970 00.55 Desire to write for the Guardian from childhood 06.10 How he came to write for the paper
10.10 Working as a sub-editor 15.00 Office politics. Remembers Brian Redhead, John Anderson and John Rosselli
20.20 Paddy Monkhouse's dejection at Manchester being dropped from title 25.00 Oxford graduates working for the paper 26.00 Advancement of his career
30.48 Trip to Algeria in search of Eldridge Cleaver 33.15 First investigative journalism story about Exeter and Worcester 35.10 Willy Hoskins acquiring documents 37.40 Remembers Alastair Hetherington
45.50 The Scott Trustees 46.20 John Rosselli leaving 49.00 Comments on today's Guardian and working for it again
Track 2 Test
Track 3 02.01 Mary Stott and the beginning of the modern women's' page 07.45 Is the Guardian only a stepping stone for journalists today? 08.28 Why he left the Guardian
10.40 Writing today
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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 Geoffrey Moorhouse |
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