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Printed emails, with hand written annotations, between Leslie Plommer and Jane Glentworth concerning the gathering of feedback on how the Guardian interacts with readers.
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Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Jane Glentworth

Files of prints of the following individuals:

Box 1:
Pacey, Alice (Set by Jane Bown)
Pacino, Al (Set by Sue Adler)
Pacino, Al (Portrait by Sue Adler)
Packer, Kerry
Padley, Walter
Pagano, Margareta (Staff)
Page, Anthony
Page, Bruce
Page, Campbell (Staff)
Page, Frank (Staff)
Page, Hugo
Page, Kathy
Page, Kevin (Staff)
Page, Louise
Page, Tim
Pagett, Nicola (Sets by Jane Bown, Alan Titmass, Henrietta Butler and Nobby Clark)
Pagnamenta, Peter
Paige, Elaine (Including sets by Jane Bown and Nobby Clark)
Paine, William & Audrey (Set by Jane Bown)
Painter, George D
Paish, Prof Frank (Set by Michael Peto)
Paisley, Ian (Including sets by Tony McGrath and David Newell Smith)
Paisley, Ian (Including sets by Don McPhee, MArtin Arglesa and Sean Smith)
Paisley, Kyle

Box 2:
Pakraven, Shahwaz
Pakula, Alan
Palau, Luis
Paley, Grace
Palin, Michael (Including sets by Eamonn McCabe and Jane Bown)
Pallister, David (Staff)
Palme, Olof
Palmer, Angela (Staff)
Palmer, John (Staff)
Palmer, Lilli (Set by Jane Bown)
Palmer, Robert
Palmer, Stephen (Staff)
Palmer, Tony (Staff)
Palmer-Tomkinson, Tara
Palminteri, Chazz
Palumbo, Peter (Including set by Jane Bown)
Palunin, Sava
Pamuk, Orhan
Pandya, Nick (Staff)
Panic, Milan
Panov, Galina
Panov, Valey and Salia (Including set by Nobby Clark)
Panufnik, Andrzej
Paoli, Cecile
Paolini, Christopher (Set by Jane Bown)
Paolozzi, Eduardo
Papandreou, Andreas
Papas (Staff)
Papp, Joseph
Papworth, Rev John
Parahia, Murray (Set by Jane Bown)
Paratin, Phil
Pardoe, John
Paredes, Marisa
Parekh, Asha
Paretsky, Sara
Parfitt, David
Parfitt, David
Parfitt, Judy
Parikian, Manoug
Parini, Jay
Paris, Mica
Parish, Daphne (Including sets by Jane Bown and Sue Adler)
Park, Alex
Park, James
Park, Merle (Including set by Jane Bown)
Parker, Alan (Film Director)
Parker, Alan (Comedian)
Parker, Andi
Parker, Charlie (His widow and his instruments)
Parker, Cornelia
Parker, Diana (Set by Jane Bown)
Parker, Evan
Parker, Helen
Parker, John
Parker, Jon Kimura (Set by Allan Titmuss)
Parker, Sir Peter (Including set by Jane Bown)

Box 3:
Parker, Robert
Parker, Stephen (Staff)
Parker, Stewart (Sets by Martin Argles and Don McPhee)
Parker, Tim and Olaf
Parker, Tony
Parkes, Rev James (Sets by David Newell Smith and Michael Peto)
Parkin, Michael (Staff)
Parkin, Michael (Gallerist, husband of Molly Parkin)
Parkin, Molly (Including set by Jane Bown)
Parkin, Sarah
Parkinson, Ann (Including set by Jane Bown)
Parkinson, Cecil (Including sets by Jane Bown, Neil Libbert, John Reardon, Dod Miller, David Mansel, Graham Turner, Sean Smith and David Sillitoe)
Parkinson, Geoffrey
Parkinson, Michael (Including set by Peter Johns)
Parkinson, Norman (Including set by Jane Bown)
Parks, Gordon (Set by Peter Johns)
Parks, Hilde
Parks, Tim
Parnes, Anthony Keith
Parr-Burman, Phil
Parrett, Janet (set by Jane Bown)
Parris, Mathew
Parry, Gareth (Staff)
Parry, Glyn
Parry, Jann (Staff)
Parry, Natasha
Parry, Terry
Parsons, Betty (Including set by Jane Bown)
Parsons, Charlie
Parsons, David (Set by Jane Bown)
Parsons, Denis (Set by Jane Bown)
Parsons, Estelle (Set by Peter Johns)
Parsons, Jed (Set by Jane Bown)
Parsons, Tony
Part, Arvo
Parton, Dolly
Partridge, Eric (Set by Stuart Heydinger)
Partridge, Francis (Including set by Jane Bown)
Partridge, David
Partridge, James
Partridge, Nick (Set by Jane Bown)
Pascall, Alex
Pasmore, Victor (Set by Jane Bown)
Pasolini, Pier Paolo
Pass, Nellie
Passmore, Nick (Staff)
Patachou
Patel, Prapilbhai (Set by Jane Bown)
Paterson, Alex
Paterson, Don
Patil, Madhav
Paton-Davis, John
Paton-Walsh, Jill
Patten, Brian*
Patten, Christopher
Patten, John (Including sets by Neil Libbert, Don McPhee, David Sillitoe and Graham Turner)
Patten-Walsh, Jill
Paterson, Bill
Patterson, Glen
Patterson, Harry
Patterson, Dr Margaret (Meg) (Including set by Jane Bown)

Box 4:
Patterson, Marie (Including set by Jane Bown)
Patterson, Paul
Patterson, Sarah
Patterson, Simon
Pattinson, Derek (Including set by Jane Bown)
Pattinson, Harry
Patterson, Hubert
Patullo, Polly
Paul, Lord (Sets by Eamonn McCabe and Sue Adler)
Paulin, Tom
Pauling, Dr Linus (Set by Karsh)
Paustovsky, Konstantin (Including sets by Neil Libbert and David Newell Smith)
Pavarotti, Luciano (Including sets by Jane Bown, Neil Libbert, Sue Adler, Tony McGrath, Peter Johns and Henrietta Butler)
Pavlova, Anna (Pictures of her possessions) (Set by Jane Bown)
Pavic, Milorad
Pawson, Richard (Set by Jane Bown)
Pawson, Tony (Staff)
Paxman, Jeremy (Sets by Neil Libbert and Eamonn McCabe)
Paxton, Tom
Payne, Cynthia (Including set by Jane Bown)
Payne, Max
Payne, Nicholas
Payne, Norman J
Payne, Sara (Set by Jane Bown)
Paine, William and Audrey (Set by Jane Bown)
Paynter, Will (Including sets by Jane Bown and Michael Peto)
Paz, Octavio
Peabody, Mr George (Statue of) (Set by Jane Bown)
Peacock, Prof Alan (Including set by Jane Bown)
Peacock, Michael (Sets by Stuart Heydinger and Michael Peto)
Peacock, Trevor
Pearce, Sir Austin
Pearce, Edward
Pearce, John
Pears, Peter (Sets by Jane Bown and Erich Auerbach)
Pearson, Ian
Pearson, Jenny (Staff)
Pearson, Neil (Set by Eamonn McCabe)
Pearson, Winifred (Set by Jane Bown)
Peart, Lord (Fred)
Peck, Bob
Peck, Ellen
Peck, Gregory (Set by Jane Bown)
Peck, John
Peck, M Scott (Set by Jane Bown)
Pedler, Dr Kit (Including set by Jane Bown)
Peel, John (Including set by Jane Bown)
Peers, Peter (Set by Jane Bown)
Pei, I M
Peitrowska, Agnieszka
Pekinel Twins
Pelevin, Viktor
Pelling, Rev John
Pelling, Rowan (Set by Jane Bown)
Pema, Jersun
Penderecki, Krystof (Including set by Neil Libbert)
Pendergrast, Mark
Pendleton, Frank
Pendragon, Arthur
Penhaligon, David
Penhaligon, Susan
Penhall, Joe (Set by David Sillitoe)
Penman, Ian
Pennebaker, Donn Alan
Penney, Jennifer

Box 5:
Penney, Lord
Pennington, Michael
Pennis, Dennis
Penny, Nicholas
Penrose, Prof Roger
Penrose, Sir Roland (Including set by Jane Bown)
Peploe, Mrs Christine (Set by Jane Bown)
Pepper, Dr Bill (Set by Jane Bown)
Pepper, Redd
Perahia, Murray (Including set by Jane Bown)
Pereira, Miguel (Set by Jane Bown)
Perelman, S J (Including set by Jane Bown)
Peres, Shimon (Including Judah Passow, Neil Libbert and Martin Argles)
Perez De Cuellar, Javier
Peri, Peter
Perkin, John (Staff)
Perkins, Anthony (Including sets by Jane Bown, Jack Nisberg and Roger Corbeau)
Perkins, Emily
Perkins, Stella
Perl, Mrs Verdun
Perlman, Isaac (Set by Jane Bown)
Perriam, Wendy
Perrot, Roy (Staff)
Perry, Dave
Perry, Frances (Staff)
Perry, Grayson
Perry, Lee 'Scratch'
Perry, Matthew
Persaud, Dr Raj (Set by Eamonn McCabe)
Pertwee, Bill
Pertwee, Jon
Perutz, Kathrin
Pesek, Libor
Peters, Andi
Peters, Clark
Peters, Ellis
Peterson, Eric
Peterson, Oscar (Sets by Jane Bown, Lorrie Graham and Murdo MacLeod)
Petherbridge, Edward (Set by Jane Bown)
Petit, Chris
Petre, Diana
Petrescu, Irina
Petronio, Stephen
Petry, Diana (Staff)
Petty, Cecil
Pevsner, Sir Nikolaus
Peyton, Baron John
Peyton, Mrs K M
Payton-Jones, Julia
Phelphs, Ted
Phibbs, Harry (Including set by Jane Bown)
Philby, Kim (Including set by Jane Bown)
Philips, Emo
Philips, Jane Ann
Pinter, Harold
Phillip, Caryl
Phillips, Leslie
Phillips, Captain Mark
Phillips, Melanie
Phillips, Robin
Phillips, Sian
Phillips, Tom

Box 6:
Phillips, Trevor
Phillis, Bob
Phipps, Jack
Phoenix, Pat
Phoenix, River
Piaf, Edith
Piano, Renzo
Picasso, Pablo
Picasso, Paloma
Piccoli, Michael
Pick, Helen (Hella) (Staff)*
Pickett, Cindy
Pickford, Mary
Pickup, Ronald
Piehler, H A
Pierce, Acton (Set by Jane Bown)
Pierce, Charles (Set by Jane Bown)
Piercy, Marge (Set by Jane Bown)
Piering, Scott
Pierre, D B C (Set by Jane Bown)
Piggott, Lester (2 copy negatives from colour reversal film)
Piggot-Smith, Tim
Pilger, John
Pilkington, Edward (Staff)
Pilkington, John (Staff)
Pilkington, Rev Pat (Set by Jane Bown)
Pilling, Anne
Pincher, Chapman (Including set by Jane Bown)
Pinchot, Ann
Pinney, Aza
Pinnock, Winsome
Pinter, Harold
Piotrowska, Agnieszka (Including set by Jane Bown)
Piper, Billy
Piper, John (Including set by Jane Bown)
Pisk, Litz
Pitcairn, Rev Theodore (Set by Jane Bown)
Pitt, Brad
Pitt-Kethley, Fiona
Pitt-Watson, David
Pitts, Martin (Set by Jane Bown)
Pizzey, Erin (Including set by Jane Bown)
Planner, Nigel (Including set by Jane Bown)
Plastercaster, Cynthia
Pleasance, Angela
Pleasence, Donald (Including sets by Jane Bown, Nobby Clark and Peter Johns)
Pliatzky, Leo
Plimmer, Charlotte
Phsetskaya, Maya Mikhailova
Plommer, Leslie (Staff) (Including negatives)
Plowright, Joan (Including sets by Jane Bown, Nobby Clark and Peter Johns)
Plunkett, James
Podgorny, Nikolai
Poliakoff, Serge (Image by Karsh)
Poliakoff, Stephen
Polanski, Roman
Pollini, Maurizio
Pollock, Alice
Pollock, Jackson
Polskikh, Galina
Pompidou, Georges
Ponting, Clive (Including set by Jane Bown)
Pool, Hannah (Staff)

Box 7:
Pop, Iggy
Pope John Paul 2nd (Including set by Jane Bown)
Pope Paul 6th (Sets by Stuart Heydinger and Chris Smith)
Pope John 23rd (Sets by Karsh and Peter Keen)
Pope Pius 12th (Set by Karsh)
Portillo, Michael
Postelthwaite, Pete (Including set by Jane Bown)
Potter, Dennis (Including set by Jane Bown)
Pound, Ezra
Powell, Anthony (Including set by Jane Bown)
Powell, Gen Colin
Powell, Dilys
Powell, Enoch
Powell, Jonathan (Including a set by Jane Bown)
Pratchett, Terry (Including set by Jane Bown)
Preminger, Otto
Prescott, John (1)
Prescott, John (2) (Including set by Jane Bown)
Preston, Peter (Guardian Editor 1975-1995)

Box 8:
Preston, Simon (Including set by Jane Bown)
Prevert, Jacques (Image by Brassai)
Previn, Andre
Price, John
Price, Vincent
Priestland, Gerald (Set by Jane Bown)
Priestley, J B (Including sets by Jane Bown and Colin Jones)
Primarolo, Dawn
Prince (Including sets by Alan Titmass and Henrietta Butler)
Prince, Habold (Sets by Jane Bown and Nobby Clark)
Pringle, John (Staff)
Pringle, Valentine (Set by Jane Bown)
Prior, James (Including set by Jane Bown)
Pritchard, John (Sets by Colin Jones, Geofrey MacDominic, Tony McGrath, Erich Auerbach and Allan Titmuss)
Pritchett, Oliver (Set by Jane Bown)
Pritchett, Oliver (GDN Staff)
Pritchett, V S (Set by Jane Bown)
Prittie, Terence (GDN Staff)
Proby, P J
Procktor, Patrick
Profumo, John (Including set by Jane Bown)
Prokofiev, Madame (Set by Jane Bown)
Prokovsky, Andre
Proops, Marjorie (Sets by Jane Bown and Peter Johns)
Prosser, Edward (Set by Jane Bown)
Proulx, Annie (Including set by Jane Bown)
Prowse, Phillip (Set By Murdo MacLeod)
Pryce, Jonathan (Sets by Jane Bown, Nobby Clark, Richard Mildenhall and Neil Libbert)
Pryce Jones, Alan (Staff)
Pryke, Paula (Set by Jane Bown)
Pszoniak, Wojtek
Pullman, Bill
Purdie, Sam
Purum, Flora
Purvis, Stewart (Set by Jane Bown)
Putnam, Ashley
Puttnam, David (Including set by Jane Bown)
Pyke, Edward (Set by Jane Bown)
Pym, Francis (Including sets by Jane Bown and Lorrie Graham)
Pyne, Natasha (Set by Jane Bown)
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Interview with Derek Bennett, printer for the Guardian. Conducted by Leslie Plommer on 6 December 2002. Also includes a data sheet containing biographical details about the subject and information about the recording and notes on his career.

Summary contents of interview (with rough timings):

Disc 1
Track 1:
00.44 Born in Manchester 1931, family not in printing
01.17 Got stereotyping apprenticeship at Salford City Reporter, description of duties and printing process
03.03 Description of a 'flong'
06.00 Moved to the Guardian in 1951
08.42 Discussion of his duties and posting to Korea whilst on National Service

10.10 Reunion of troops in combat together in Korea, August 26 2000, and discussion about army career
15.30 Return home from Korea
16.10 Work at Cross Street casting advertisements
16.30 Description about casting - making plates, flongs etc.
18.00 Further casual jobs at City News in Manchester, and Stockport Gazette

20.30 Harold Geldard at City News docked wage by quarter of an hour, dispute led to better contract
23.50 Comparison to Guardian contract
24.20 Discussion about casual work
25.20 Buying a house
25.45 Dispute with Harold Geldard about printing and handing in notice at City News
28.00 Finding replacement Stereotyper at City News, Maurice Brown
29.10 Contacted Percy Martin at Guardian about a job
29.30 Application to go to Australia - Assisted Passage Scheme £10.00, leaving 1st February 1958

30.05 Asked Percy Martin for job for a few months before leaving
30.30 Arriving in Australia with no money
31.10 Finding work at printers - 187 Beckett Street [?White and Gellespie], proprietor - Bert Whitmore
32.00 Holiday in Sydney, discussion about moving to Sydney and finding work
34.15 Bert Whitmore helped find job in Camborne (suburb of Sydney) work in Stereotyping and vinyl plates
36.00 Work found at the Telegraph as Stereoptyper
36.15 Comparisons to Stereotyping in England
38.00 Became Deputy Overseer
38.20 Notice to leave with no prospects of another job
38.40 Went to Daily Mirror
39.50 Leaving Australia

40.40 Back in England, went to work at Guardian in 1962
40.50 Reasons for leaving Australia
42.50 Enjoying work at the Guardian
43.30 Dealing with libelous stories in the newspaper
44.00 Daily Express, [?Carol Sarler] discussion about libels in newspapers
45.40 'Chipping' plates on the press due to libel
48.20 Move to Deansgate, September 1969 printing moved
49.00 Working across two sites - Deansgate and Cross Street

51.00 Dispute with another member of staff about checking copies of Guardian and Daily Mail
54.55 Further discussion about the move to Deansgate, including moving and positioning of printing presses

Track 2:
00.15 Integration with the Daily Mail
02.10 Deputy Overseer position in 1965
03.50 Separating printers from the Daily Mail printers 1974
06.40 Stan Leggett retired 1975-1976, Derek Bennett took position of Overseer
08.15 Saving money on newsprint
13.55 Polymer plates tested

Disc 2
Track 1:
00.15 Polymer plates - reasons for using them, and introducing them into the printing process
02.45 Problems with vacuum in printing
03.00 Visible improvement in quality of print
03.40 Colour printing press bought from Canada
05.20 Vibrations affected colour register, sensors put on
07.05 Role of Overseer

Track 2:
00.10 Responsibilities of role of Overseer
03.25 Discussion about Len Spate, Stereotyper
07.05 Guardian not best paid job in comparison to other newspapers
08.40 Discussion about working with metal (fumes etc.) and conditions in print room

Interview with Mary Collingborn, personnel manager for the Guardian. Conducted by Leslie Plommer on 12 December 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:
Track 1
00.10 Joined the Guardian 15 May 1972 as employee assistant manager

Track 2
00.20 Joined advertisement department in Johns Street. Main Guardian offices were in the Sunday Times building
01.10 What she did before and how she came to work at the Guardian
02.30 Differences between secretaries today and then

Track 3
00.20 Smaller Advertising dept - less than fifty members of staff
00.38 Jim Abbiss and Geoffrey Taylor shared offices with their secretaries
01.10 Became secretary to Geoffrey Taylor c.1976
02.42 Description of Geoffrey Taylor
03.45 'Closed Shop' policy of the Guardian and bureaucracy of recruitment
05.50 Describes employees as a fairly restricted pool of people

Track 4
07.06 Anecdote about being in Private Eye
07.35 Description of the card Index system
10.13 Further descriptions of Geoffrey Taylor
11.12 How communication was much slower before computers

Track 5
00.20 Better relations through more personal communication i.e. via telephone
02.09 Guardian paid a less than average wage but this was balanced by the kudos of working for national newspaper
04.15 Description of trade union structure
08.10 Rigid job descriptions
08.48 Racing results in the paper
10.10 Discusses Education Guardian
11.10 Establishment of separate personnel department and becoming personnel manager.
12.55 Move to nine day fortnight

Track 6
00.39 Moved to 119 Farringdon Road from Gray's Inn Road in 1976
03.17 Personnel and recruitment practices in different departments.
05.40 1996 and the new Human Resources Department - descriptions of new responsibilities
09.25 The purchase of the Observer in 1993
13.25 The 1996 IRA bombing of the print plant and the decision to build own press centre
18.25 Bitterness following closure of printing plant
20.21 Using colour in the paper

Track 7
00.20 Introducing Word Processors in the early 1980s and how electric typewriters were restricted to directors' secretaries

Interview with John Course, northern editor for the Guardian. Conducted by Leslie Plommer on 17 March 1998. 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
00.45 Outlines the various jobs he has held at the Guardian
03.10 Changing role of northern editor, largely due to change in geographical focus of the paper
04.20 Talks about the 'Guardian misprints legend'
06.00 Division of labour between London and Manchester, and how the production and printing processes worked
09.45 Joe Minogue as foreign editor and as northern night editor

11.00 Stress of being northern night editor
12.40 Discussion about arts notices
17.30 Further discussion about the amalgamation of paper
18.25 Editor moved to London in 1960s
19.20 Role of adverts in forcing the move and the significant increase in ad. revenue

20.00 Changing role of 'the north' in national affairs
21.33 Definition of a 'flong'
23.00 Anecdote about 'mats' stuck on a train between Manchester and London
25.30 The winding down of the features operation in Manchester, and its move to London
28.20 Copy came up from London in parcels via trains. Mats sent down in the mornings.

31.30 Editing a grassroots page 'what's not happening in London'
33.00 How the staff felt as operations moved to London
34.45 Working with Mary Stott
35.40 First to employ a woman (apart from Stott) in Manchester
39.00 Further discussions about Mary Stott

43.20 Discusses Brian Redhead.
48.00 Features department going to the pub every night

50.30 No doubt that there were frequent office rows but doesn't remember it being too bad
51.00 Psychological reasons for the paper moving gradually and the circulation-related reasons
52.55 Feelings of superiority of those in Manchester compared to the way things were done in London

Interview with John Dowling, transport manager 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
00.01 Brief introduction to John Dowling's role at the Guardian

Track 2
00.17 Started as an apprentice in the construction industry
00.53 Whilst working a late shift saw an job advert in the paper for a multi vehicle technician
01.24 Offered an interview at Deansgate
01.39 Got the job - doubled salary and halved working hours
02.03 Sense of excitement about joing the newspaper industry
02.10 Diversity of the role and unique people, made long term friends
02.37 Initially working as a mechaic at Broughton Lane
02.43 Four day working week, was used to doing 6-6.5 days
02.59 Because of shorter week was able to undertake further education
03.30 Offered the job as transport manager approx 3 years

Track 3
00.05 Description of the engineering faculty at Broughton Lane
01.11 Responsibility for keeping the vehicles in good condition
01.34 Initially it was hands on work, stripping engines, servicing and maintaining vehicles
02.26 Role of transport manager was a culture shock
02.49 Duties changed over night, scheduling work and repair, purchase and disposal
03.28 Description of the layout of the engineering building
04.21 Three floors of the building were unused - found bound volumes of newspapers amongst other items
05.27 When the Guardian moved to Cross Street anything they didn't know what to do with ended up in Broughton Lane
06.15 Water leak on the top floors - bound volumes floating in water
08.17 Contacted Harry Whewell to let them know what was stored in the building

10.58 Looked after the archive material on site
11.42 Found two bronze pofiles of the Scott sons
13.26 Stayed in the role of transport manager for 16 years
14.43 Project to run the service more effectively, moved into a logistics role
15.56 The new role covered purely the weeklies, all other Greater Manchester titles
16.39 Ready for the change in job
17.40 Discusses strong feelings towards the heritage of the paper - duty bound to maintain it
19.05 The bulk of archive material was Guardian related, some Manchester Evening News volumes

20.02 John Gibblin took over as transport manager
21.24 Said to be a ghost of an old driver up in the archive
21.37 The Guardian library was initially shipped from Deansgate to Broughton Lane as there was nowhere else for it
21.52 Moving 'piles and piles of books'
22.45 Daughter now works as a journalist for the Manchester Evening News
23.07 Explains the legend of the ghost of Broughton Lane - nicknamed Charlie

Track 4
00.08 Discusses in detail the finding the bronze profiles of the Scott sons
02.05 The bronzes are now at the top of the fourth floor stairs at Deansgate
03.00 Assumed the bronzes would be in the London archive
03.38 Elephant anecdote late 1950s/early 60s

Interview with Alan Dunn, journalist for the Guardian. Conducted by Leslie Plommer on 02 April 1998. 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
00.30 Starting work and positions held at the Guardian
01.50 Working as foreign correspondent
03.30 Peter Preston and the Pakistan-India war cables

05.10 Israel war
06.00 Blaming the wrong side [Israel war]
06.05 Vietnam war, switch of policy half way through war
06.40 Personalities: John Perkin, Victor Zorza and Geoffrey Taylor
09.10 Foreign Editor, couldn't take it because he's scared of flying
09.50 Move to sport, 1968/9 Northern Sports Editor

10.30 Staff working in sport at the time
13.20 The way the sports team worked together and early days of floodlit football, not much late night sport
14.25 Changes in sport
14.25 Corresponding from Europe via telephone. Sharing lines between papers, no great rivalry
16.10 Pat Ward-Thomas, golf correspondent, 'foot in the bath' anecdote
17.00 Keeping to deadlines and writing during matches
18.20 Working conditions in Cross Street, Manchester

22.20 John Samuel and battle for funding for horse racing
22.20 Increased snooker, tennis and golf coverage
26:00 Cricket reporting going further abroad, more professional reporting
26.00 Mathew Engel covering cricket
27:40 John Samuel - skiing/skating coverage, developing opinion in sport
28:50 Covering football matches and racing

31.10 Politics of sport in general: South Africa, Mexico Olympics
35.50 How Irvine and David Frost could 'spend hours talking about nothing but an oval ball'
37.10 Reporting sports medicine, John Samuel
38.40 Football gossip and how reporters were at the game 'on behalf of the reader'

40:50 Reporters of the time
40.50 A gentlemanly style of writing, use of Dickens and Shakespeare
42.00 Football violence in the 1980s, writers getting mugged
44.20 Mersey period up to 1991
44.20 Description of team working at the time [c1982]
45.40 Labour Party post 1979
47.05 Politics in Liverpool in early 1980s
47.05 Discusses Derek Hatton, Tony Mulhearn [Labour]

50.00 Removal of tower blocks, building homes and borrowing money
52.40 Heseltine began to make his mark
54.30 Labour conference; teachers' dismissal notices sent by taxi
55.00 Unions views of the violence
57.00 1980s decline of militants, rise of Merseyside Development Corporation
58.00 Militant reaction to Guardian; 'the Guardian was trusted'
59.30 Discusses Derek Hatton

61.00 Visiting militant meetings
62.00 Discusses Tony Mulhearn
63.20 Labour councillors and the more traditional labour line

Interview with Stephen Fay, discussing his father Gerard Fay, London editor of the Manchester Guardian. Conducted by Leslie Plommer on 12 February 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
01.09 Story of Gerard Fay's early years
02.44 Rochdale Observer
03.29 Joined Oldham Chronicle as leader writer
03.59 Wrote to the features editor of the Manchester Guardian asking if he could write for them
04.50 Meeting with WP Crozier
05.24 Given a job as reporter 1939

Track 2
00.15 John Midgely, John Douglas Pringle
01.09 Joined the Army
01.26 Wounded after D Day - In hospital for six months then went back to Guardian
02.20 Wadsworth as editor
02.43 Sent to London in 1946
04.07 Winnipeg Free Press
04.33 Covered the Linskey tribunal
05.38 He had wonderful conversational style
05.46 Wrote 2 books, semi autobiographical
06.25 Good companion and he drank a lot
06.30 Louis Heren
07.25 John Midgely
07.36 Research for the 1949 Royal Commision, survey of graduates on Fleet Street
08.51 Phillip Hope Wallace, drama critic and a great chum of Gerard

11.30 Francis Boyd wanted to be London editor
11.50 Was in Tokyo, when offered the job, he loved being the London editor. He was 'innocently proud' of the pape
13.16 Became a director of the company
13.31 In charge of syndication, international representative of the Guardian

Track 3
00.47 By 1959 Hetherington had become the editor
01.24 Gerard was doing the diary, and the quality was variable, depending on what people gave him
02.11 Manchester no longer the great economic capital it once was, it was inevitable that the paper would move
03.33 The move to London in 1961 was something he took very seriously and he organised it as well as he could
04.52 First stirrings of new technology in the late 1950s

Track 4
00.27 Editing the paper during the Profumo affair
02.04 This was a period of growing unhappiness
02.40 Hetherington became more critical and Gerard became more discontented
02.52 Involved in the run up to the great financial crisis of 64-66 when the directors were in talks with the Times.
03.38 Resigned in November 1966
04.03 Brian Redhead was the features editor
04.30 Gerard didn't resign, he was sacked by the board
05.49 He died eighteen months later [in 1968]

Track 5
00.18 He was only 54, when he died. Mourned by many of his colleagues.
00.45 He had a whimsical column called 'the university of Saturday'. He had whimsical sense of humour
01.36 He was one of the past generation of Guardian people
02.45 His wife felt that his loyalty to the Guardian had been betrayed
03.14 Drink and Fleet Street in that period went together.
03.43 Didn't like sport
04.36 Had to take all his money when he left as his pension
05.41 He hoped to write some books and wrote some freelance pieces for the UK Press Gazette
07.39 Wasn't until he became London editor that he got £1,000 a year

Track 6
02.00 Should never expect loyalty from an institution.
03.34 Was such a good writer, could have gone on writing for another 15 years
04.38 He seemed to have so much fun with his chums, whilst doing interesting work
06.00 Wadsworth's purge in the 40s

Interview with Audrey Gillan, Guardian Home News Chief Reporter. Conducted by Leslie Plommer on 23 May 2003. This is the first of a series of interviews with Guardian staff who covered the Iraq War of March-April 2003. Also includes a data sheet containing biographical details about the subject and information about the recording, as well as Guardian newspaper articles published by Audrey Gillan covering the Iraq War.

Summary contents of interview (with rough timings):

Disc 1:
Track 1
00.15 Introductions
00.39 Meeting held by the Guardian in October 2002. Discussion on how to cover a possible war in Iraq. Roles allocated to correspondents
01.50 Told she would be going to Iraq if war broke out
02.10 Did not volunteer
02.45 Form of training. Hostile environment training run by former armed forces
03.10 Discusses hostile environment training. How to deal with kidnap situations
03.30 Intensive first aid training. Taught to clear landmines
03.48 Nuclear and biological warfare training
04.00 Ministry of Defence organised further training for press staff
04.30 Use of CS gas chamber to test drills
04.43 Training course with RAF. Taught importance of personal hygiene, how to construct tent, use of rationing food
04.58 Own fitness regime
05.20 Process of journalist selection
06.55 Appointed to join the Household Cavalry D squadron, a front line armoured unit within the 16 Air Assualt Brigade
07.10 Women war correspondents advised that the 16 Air Assualt Brigade did not want female correspondents
07.45 Upset over possibility that she would not be covering conflict due to gender
08.00 Decision over-ruled
08.45 Trepidation before leaving the UK
09.00 Scared by chemical warfare training
09.45 Encouraged to take Anthrax vaccination. Fear over side effects

10.38 Medical support from the Guardian
10.50 Decision over Anthrax vaccination
11.30 Attendents on training courses included newspaper, radio and television journalists from around the world. Training was compulsory
12.55 Many journalists fitness tested during training

Track 2
00.05 Soon after training they were called up
00.20 Preparing kit
01.10 On 48 hour standby to leave when called
01.15 Remembers the call-up to fly to Kuwait
01.45 Reunited with kit during a sandstorm
02.00 Over 120 journalists based at camp before leaving for individual brigades
02.45 Remembers speaking to Bruce Adams, Daily Mail photographer, who was also embedded with the unit
03.00 Attitude of the unit
03.30 Attitude to the Guardian
03.45 Accompanied by bodyguard and armed soliders for first days to prevent her accessing information
04.30 Complained to liason officers from Media Operations about treatment
05.25 Copy vetted before being sent
05.50 Daily routine at camp
06.10 Shock of troops that she was female. Warned that a journalist would be joining them
06.20 Acceptance by unit
06.50 Began working on human emotion stories. How the troops prepare for war
07.30 Use of Zulu time
08.00 The burning of personal letters by troops. Threat of imprisonment

10.00 Use of laptop. Copy read by media officer and squadron officer. Verbal negotiation over content

Track 3
00.04 Remembers first exercise
01.25 Taste of what life would be like covering the war
01.45 Experience of sleeping whilst in the field
02.10 The weather. Rain and flooding in Kuwait

Track 4
00.15 Reconnaissance role of the unit. Front line observation
01.12 Unit engaged in periods of intense activity
02.30 Journalist kit
03.30 Surveying the landscape. Use of technology such as thermal imaging equipment
03.55 Verifying targets
04.45 Remembers finding abandoned oil field barracks
05.45 Quiet start
06.30 Increase in activity
07.00 Remembers incident of vehicle bracketing
07.30 Use of armoured vehicles
08.00 Reassurance from troops
08.20 Remembers her vehicle breaking down whilst under fire
09.25 Memories of hearing over the radio the friendly fire incident on 28 March 2003 where USAF aircraft attacked a Household Cavalry convoy resulting in the death of Corporal Matty Hull

11.00 Speaking to the unit after the incident. Remembering the noise
12.00 Feelings of vulnerability following incident
12.28 Impact on the Guardian. Concerns over the saftey of staff. Asked to reconsider position
13.48 Remembers accident when a Scimitar light tank vehicle overturned in a ditch, killing two. Witnessed rescue attempt
15.10 Increase in incoming rounds of artillery
16.00 Loss of fellow soldiers
16.50 Expression of fears of others to her
17.20 Move into town. Lack of resistance. Feeling that war had changed
18.05 Relief that the war had slowed down
19.20 Response of locals to armed forces
19.55 Importance of not losing your guard in situations. The need to be careful

20.35 Filtering of news from Baghdad. Gillan heard news from Guardian news desk in London. Use of short wave radio
21.00 Communication difficult. Lower ranks not very well informed
22.10 Vehicle problems encountered
22.50 Censorship of reporting
24.10 Argument with a squadron leader over a report over the treatment of troops
25.40 Tensions in the relationship between the military and the media
26.00 Incident where she was reported. Sent wrong copy when writing a piece for both the Guardian and the Mirror
27.30 How she filed copy when in the field
28.30 Carrying equipment she did not use. Shock at living conditions
29.00 Becoming one of the lads, part of the team
29.50 Wore civilian clothes with body armour and helmet

31.00 Problems of clothes in the climate
31.38 Friendships with soldiers and other journalists
32.10 Attendance at soldiers' funerals
33.00 Speaking with soldiers' wives
34.17 Diaries kept during war coverage
35.12 Dreams since about time in war zone
36.10 Fond memories of relationships with soldiers
37.15 Class background of soldiers
37.50 Leaving the unit

40.00 Travelled via Kuwait. Unable to leave Kuwait for days due to problems with paperwork
42.25 Reflection on war coverage. Unique access to soldiers

Interview with Jamie Wilson, Guardian Home News Reporter. Conducted by Leslie Plommer on 27 May 2003. This interview is part of a series of interviews with Guardian staff who covered the Iraq War of March-April 2003. Also includes a data sheet containing biographical details about the subject and information about the recording, as well as a selection of Guardian newspaper articles published by Jamie Wilson covering the Iraq War.

Summary contents of interview (with rough timings):

Disc 1:
Track 1
00.15 Introductions
00.20 Jamie Wilson was embedded with the British Navy at the start of the Iraq War
00.28 Being told by the Guardian foreign editor that he would be entered into the pool to be sent to Iraq
01.25 Initially told he would be embedded on a supply ship. As some of the newspapers pulled out, he was transferred to a war ship, HMS Marlborough
02.15 Chemical and nuclear warfare training with the Ministry of Defence at Winterbourne Gunner, Wiltshere
03.00 Further training at RAF Uxbridge
03.15 Hostile environment course which recreated a kidnap situation. Trauma first aid training
04.30 Response of family. Excitement of father
05.20 Ministry of Defence kit list
06.14 The call up
07.20 Met other journalists at the airport and at the hotel. Remembers awful dinner in Bahrain upon arrival
08.00 Remembers lecture with Ministry of Defence staff. Talked through different types of ships
09.10 Panic about using equipment the night before leaving
09.45 Chaos of travel

10.15 On board naval repair ship Royal Fleet Auxilliary [RFA] Diligence
10.43 Interview with Admiral David Snelson, who led maritime operations for the invasion of Iraq
11.30 Spending time on ship
11.50 Socialising with officers
12.00 Arrival with the fleet
12.50 Time spent on aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal
13.20 Joined HMS Marlborough

Track 2
00.05 Week spent on HMS Marlborough before bombardment began
01.05 Only journalist on the HMS Marlborough
02.00 Met by public relations officer on board. Feeling that he was getting in the way on board
02.39 Access on board
02.50 Possibility of censorship
03.44 His first piece on preparations for war
03.50 Discusses role and personality of Commander Mark Anderson
05.00 Feeling amongst crew that they had been at sea for a long time, due to lack of safe space
07.00 Discussion of air cover. Ship provided naval artillery support for marines going to shore
07.50 'Blue on blue' - friendly fire considered to be the biggest danger to coalition forces. The need to be sure of threats before firing stressed
08.45 Sat in on military briefings
09.05 Shadowed for initial days
09.30 Biggest problem faced by Wilson on board was filing copy. Satellite navigation phone and mobile phone taken away while on board
09.48 Only able to file copy via the ships communication system. Lack of real time email

11.58 Speaking to crew as they prepared for war
12.10 Not allowed to file report on the takeover of two oil terminals. Fears over the mentioning of oil terminals
14.30 As an embedded journalist you agree to the rules of the military
14.55 Telephone conversations listened to
15.09 Fears over giving away secrets. Could put peoples lives at risk
16.30 Did not contact family once told about invasion. Fears that any leak would lead to suspicion on him
17.35 Ship bound reporters most restricted in terms of communication and movement
18.30 HMS Marlborough's role in the invasion of Iraq. Use of rivers
19.28 Feeling of being an observer. Did not feel that he was in danger as he was detached from action

20.05 Ship briefings likened to Guardian daily conference
20.55 Issue of mines
22.03 His idea of mines based on Second World War films
22.45 Biggest threat to ships were mines
23.05 Given 48 hour notice that action would begin
23.25 Wearing a flame proof suit, an effect of injuries encountered during Falklands War
24.10 Contents of battle bag
24.20 Difficulty writing with protective gloves and hood
24.45 System of shut down during attack
25.00 Threat of gas attack. Danger of gas floating from land
25.30 Use of anti-nerve agent tablets. Chose not to take these himself

Track 3
00.05 Lead up to bombardment
00.32 Sleeping in the electronic warfare office on board
01.45 Woken to be told the bombardment was starting
02.10 Initial action
03.30 Use of code words
04.30 Changes to game plan
05.30 Unable to file during this period. Levels of silence within the fleet
06.55 Orders received that invasion was to start that night
08.10 Invasion started
09.05 Memories of initial actions taken
09.30 Fire missions allocated

10.10 Upset on board that HMS Chatham was first naval ship to fire as part of Operation Telic
11.45 The white flag of surrender
12.40 Filing copy for the Guardian. Not allowed to quote crew or captain, but provide a report of what he saw and heard
13.27 Found that the email system was down
13.52 Crew keen for report to be in paper. Wanted family to be able to read about their war
14.10 Attempts to file copy via others
14.55 Use of fax machine
15.30 Dictated copy to Guardian over phone. Cost of calling
16.40 Took eight hours to file copy with newspaper
17.10 Planning his departure from the ship following end of action
18.00 Technical changes to copy made by captain
18.35 Division of labour on ship
19.47 Role of captain. In charge of operations room

20.35 Fears of suicide boats and the dropping of mines. Fleeing boats searched
21.20 Royal marines based on ships
22.10 Became friendly with crew. Honesty of crew
23.45 Relations may have been more diffifuclt with crew if anything had gone wrong in action
24.25 Consulted more with officers. Spent time with junior rankings to assess mood of ship

Track 4
00.09 Returning to the Gulf. Role of HMS Marlborough finished
00.30 Leaving the ship. Wanted to watch aid being delivered
01.30 Transferred to Her Majesty's Australian Ship [HMAS] Kanimbla, a ship orchestrating mine clearance off Umm Qasr, Iraq. Officially on loan to ship, but did not return
02.50 Australian journalists on HMAS Kanimbla
04.00 Arriving at a compound housing US, British and Australian troops awaiting arrival of RFA Sir Galahad
05.00 Journalists from Kuwait City upset over attendance of non-embedded journalists
05.50 The Guardian called him back to London. Fears over protection of journalists

Track 5
00.05 Return of satellite phone
00.40 Return to normal life
01.10 Regret over return. Felt he had been made to give up a good position