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Interview with Brian Connor, circulation director for the Guardian. Conducted by David Ward on 18 April 2002. Also includes a data sheet containing biographical details about the subject and information about the recording.

Summary contents of interview (with rough timings):

00.10 Started at the Guardian in 1952 straight from school. Worked on linotype machines for 5 years
01.45 Working for the Manchester Guardian Weekly
02.50 Hierarchical distinction between the Manchester Evening News and Manchester Guardian
05.10 How national service widened his horizons
06.00 Returned to new chairman, Kenneth Searle, whom introduced management training
08.30 Training didn't include editorial work
09.00 How he found his way into circulation

10.00 How circulation operated - co-operation between papers
12.00 Paper transportation between London and Manchester and the grey area around West Midlands
14.00 Having to hold the train if the paper was running late
16.00 Teletypesetting problems and 'nightly battle' with the unions. Circulation problems alienating people in Scotland.
18.00 How did his job change?
19.00 Becoming circulation director in the early 1980s
19.45 World Cup first day covers and how they became the responsibility of the circulation department

23.00 How the sales drive in Yorkshire added c.1200 readers, but as soon as the drive stopped readers disappeared
25.30 The paper increasing in size and logistical difficulties
27.15 Size of Connor's team - circulation reps/area managers
29.00 Flooding the market on big news days i.e. the Kennedy assassination

31.00 When did co-operation between circulation managers break up?
32.42 What happens when a big story breaks? e.g. Lockerbie
35.00 Relationship between editorial and commercial

Interview with Brian Jones, deputy editor for the Guardian. Conducted by David Ward on 11 July 2001. Also includes a data sheet containing biographical details about the subject and information about the recording and a detailed track guide.

Summary contents of interview (with rough timings):

Disc 1:
Track 1
Test

Track 2
09.03 Atmosphere at the Guardian was masculine without being macho

12.00 Guardian editors and the relative youth of Alastair Hetherington
16.00 The move to London from Manchester
19.30 The chain of command between London and Manchester after the move

21.00 No cross fertilisation of ideas
22.00 Hetherington moving to London
29.00 Felt the paper went downhill quickly in its early days in London

30.00 Strict division of Labour - Muirfax and TTS
35.00 Changing stories because of the influence of the Times
37.30 Hetherington guaranteed the life-expectancy of the paper as being at least 5 years

41.00 Merger plans and Jones' car crash
42.00 The 1968/9 revamp - no longer such a "bits and bobs" paper
46.30 Open line to news stories
48.00 Sharp focussing and getting to the story
48.30 Starting to have 'foot-in-the-door' reporters
49.00 Horse racing in the paper

50.00 Loosing readers in parts of the country to gain them elsewhere
52.25 Circulation in different parts of the country and people 'buying the paper for the wrong reasons'
56.40 1976 significant move to London with Manchester becoming an 'outpost'

Track 3
02.00 Describes Peter Preston as a 'marvellous ideas man...great innovator"
04.14 The downside of the London move
08.30 Summing up and discussion on late 1960s innovations

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Waddington, David
Waddington, Leslie
Wade, Joe
Wade, Lord
Waggoner, Dan (Set by Jane Bown)
Wagman, William
Wagner, Gillian (Set by Jane Bown)
Wagner, Wolfgang
Wagoner, Dan (Set by Jane Bown)
Wagou, Dragou
Wain, John (Including sets by Peter Keen and Godfrey Macdominic)
Wainright, Alfred
Wainwright, Hilary
Wainwright 3rd, Loudon
Wainwright, Martin (Staff)
Wainwright, Richard (Including set by Jane Bown)
Waite, Terry
Wajda, Andzej
Wakefield, Richard (Set by Jane Bown)
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Wakelam, Stephen
Wakeman, Rick
Walcott, Derek (Including set by Eamonn McCabe)
Walden, Brian (Including set by Jane Bown and an illustration by an unknown artist)
Walden, George
Waldegrave, William (Including set by Jane Bown and Neil Libbert)
Walesa, Lech
Walford, Glen
Walford, Peggy
Walker, Sir Alan (Set by Sally Soames)
Walker, Alice
Walker, Bill (Including set by Jane Bown)
Walker, David
Walker, George A
Walker, Harold
Walker, Martin (Staff)
Walker, Patrick G

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Wall, Jeff
Wall, Max (Including set by Peter Johns)
Wall, Michael
Wall, Pat
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Walmsley, Christopher
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Ward, Rachel
Ward, Ronald
Ward, Simon (Set by Jane Bown)
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Warlock, Derek (Set by Jane Bown)
Warner, David (Including sets by Neil Libbert and David Newell Smith)
Warner, Deborah
Warner, Jeremy
Warner, Keith
Warner, Marina
Warnock, Baroness Mary (Including set by Jane Bown)
Warrell-Thompson, Anthony
Warren, Earl (Sets by Jane Bown and Karsh)
Warren, Kenneth
Warren, Tony

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Waterman, Fanny
Waterman, Pete
Waters, Elsie and Doris (Set by Don McPhee)
Waters, Felur (Set by Jane Bown)
Waters, Les
Waterson Sam
Waterstone, Tim
Watkins, Alan (Staff)
Watkins, Lovelace
Watkins, Paul
Watkins, Susan
Watkinson, Lord
Watkinson, David (Staff)
Watson, David
Watson, Catherine (Staff)
Watson, Graham (Set by Jane Bown)
Watson, Dr James
Watt, Tom
Watteu, Natasha
Watts, Andre
Watts, Janet (Staff)
Watts, John
Watts, Murray
Waugh, Auberon (Including sets by Jane Bown and Nobby Clark)
Waugh, Daisy (Set by Jane Bown)
Waugh, Evelyn (Including sets by Jane Bown, Karsh, and Mark Gerson)
Wavell, General Archibald (Set by Karsh)
Wavell, Stuart (Guardian Staff)
Wax, Ruby
Wayne, John (Set by Kenneth Saunders)
Weale, Sally (Staff)
Wearing, Gillian (Set by Jane Bown)
Wearing, Michael (Set by Neil Libbert)
Weatherill, Bernard (Including set by Jane Bown)
Weathers, Felicia
Weaver, Sigourney (Set by Nobby Clark)
Webb, Anthony (Set by Peter Johns)
Webb, Colin
Webb, Justin
Webb, Kaye
Webb, Marti (Set by Jane Bown)
Webb, Bill (Staff)
Weber, Beate
Webley, Mrs (Set by Jane Bown)
Webster, Martin
Webster, Paul
Webster, Paul (Guardian Staff)
Webster, Paul (Observer Staff)
Webster, Ronald (Set by Bryn Campbell)
Webster, William
Wedgwood, Lady (Set by Jane Bown)
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Weeks, Judith (Set by Jane Bown)
Weetch, Kenneth
Weidenfeld, Lord (Sets by Jane Bown, Peter Keen and Sue Adler)

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Weight, Prof Carel
Weightman, J G (Michael Peto)
Weinberg, Steven
Weinburger, Caspar
Weinstock, Lord
Weir, Gillian
Weir, Judith
Weir, Richard (Including set by Jane Bown)
Weiss, George
Weisselberg, Tom (Set by Jane Bown)
Weisz, Rachel
Weizman, Ezer
Welch, Elizabeth (Including set by Jane Bown)
Welch, Julie (Staff)
Welch, Raquel (Sets by David Newell Smith and Peter Johns)
Welch, Robin
Weldon, Fay (Including sets by Jane Bown, Nobby Clark, John Reardon, Richard Mildenhall and Peter Johns)
Welensky, Sir Roy (Including sets by Jane Bown, Stuart Heydinger and Phillip Jones Griffiths)
Welensky, Ron
Welford, Heather (Staff)
Welland, Colin
Wellbeloved, James
Weller, Denise
Weller, Walter
Welles, Orson (Sets by Jack Nisberg and Michael Peto)
Wells, H G (Sets by Karsh and E O Hoppe)
Wells, John
Welsh, Irvine (Including set of transparencies)
Wenders, Wim
Wenham, Brian (Set by Jane Bown)
Wenner, Jann (Set by Karsh)
Wentworth, Richard
Werner Henze, Hans
Wertenbaker, timberlake (Including set by Jane Bown)
Wertmuller, Lena
Wesker, Arnold
Wesley, Mary (Including set by Jane Bown)
West, Harry
West, Morris
West, Dame Rebecca
West, Sam (Sets by Jane Bown, Martin Goodwin and Eamonn McCabe)
West, Stephen (Set by Jane Bown)

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West, Timothy (Including sets by Jane Bown and Nobby Clark)
Westbrook, Mike & Kate (Including set by Jane Bown)
Westminster, Duke of
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Weston, Simon (Including set by Jane Bown)
Weston, Willard (Set by Karsh)
Wexham, Brian (Staff)
Wexler, Haskell (Set by Neil Libbert)
Weymouth, Lord
Wezensky, Roy
Wha-Chung, Kyung
Wharton, Michael (Set by Jane Bown)
Wheat, Sue (Guardian Writer)
Wheeler, Charles
Wheeler, Kenny
Wheeler, Sir Mortimer (Set by Bryn Campbell)
Wheeler, Sarah
Wheeler, Tony
Wheen, Francis (Staff)
Wheldon, Huw (Including sets by Jane Bown and Peter Keen)
Whewell, Harry (Guardian Staff)
Whicker, Alan
Whiley, Jo (Set by Eamonn McCabe)
Whishaw, Anthony
Whitaker, James
Whitaker, Forest
Whitburn, Vanessa, (Including set by Jane Bown)
Whitby, Anthony
White, Aidan
White, Chris
White, Edmund (Including set by Jane Bown)
White, Baroness
White, Lord Gordon
White, Hannah (Set by Jane Bown)
White, Jim (Staff)
White, Marco Pierre (Including set by Jane Bown)
White, Michael (Including sets by Jane Bown and Nobby Clark)
White, Michael (Staff)
White, Patrick
White, Phyllis
White, Willard (Including set by Eamonn McCabe)
Whitehead, Sir Edgar
Whitehead, Rachel (Including set by Jane Bown)
Whitehouse, Mary (Including set by Jane Bown)
Whitelaw, Billie (Including set by Jane Bown, Nobby Clark and Michael Peto)

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Whitelaw, William (Including sets by Jane Bown, David Newell Smith, Bryn Campbell, Don McPhee and un-named illustration)
Whiteley, G (Staff)
Whiteley, RIchard
Whiteread, Pat (Set by Jane Bown)
Whiteread, Rachel
Whitfield, June
Whitfield, Patrick (Set by Jane Bown)
Whiting, John (Image by David Sim)
Whiting, Leonard
Whitlam, Gough
Whitney, John (Including set by Jane Bown)
Whittaker, Sheila
Whittam-Smith, Andreas
Whittle, Sir Frank
Wigg, Lord (Including set by Jane Bown and David Newell Smith)
Whitty, Larry (Including set by Jane Bown)
Whylie, Dwight
Wicks, Ben (Staff)
Widdecombe, Ann (Including set by Jane Bown)
Widdecombe, Gillian (Staff)
Widerberg, Bo
Widgery, David (Jane Bown)
Wiesel, Elie (Including set by Jane Bown)
Wiggin, Jerry
Wigley, Dafydd
Wilbur, Bob
Wilby, Peter (Staff)
Wilcox, Desmond
Wilcox, Paul (Staff)
Wilcox, Paula
Wild, David
Wild, Jude E
Wilde, Dee Dee
Wilder, Billy (Set by Jane Bown)
Wilder, Gene
Wilding, Michael
Wilkins, Gordon (Staff) (Set by Jane Bown)
Wilkins, Margaret (Set by Jane Bown)

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Wilkinson, Peter
Wilkinson, Tom
Wilkonirski, Binjamin
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Willetts, David (Including set by Jane Bown)
Williams, Andy
Williams, Prof Bernard
Williams, Mrs Betty
Williams, Bruce
Williams, Clifford
Williams, Emlyn (Theatre) (Including set by Jane Bown)
Williams, Emlyn
Williams, Dr Eric
Williams, Evelyn (Set by Jane Bown)
Williams, Francis (Staff)
Williams, Gordon
Williams, rev H A (Set by Jane Bown)
Williams, Hugo
Williams, Joe
Williams, John
Williams, Kenneth
Williams, Kit (Including set by Jane Bown)
Williams, Laverne (Including set by Jane Bown)
Williams, Len
Williams, Linda (Set by Jane Bown)
Williams, Lindy
Williams, Louise (Staff)
Williams, Michael
Williams, Nigel (Including set by Jane Bown)
Williams, Pat (Staff)
Williams, Percy (Set by Jane Bown)
Williams, Richard (Staff)
Williams, Richard (Illustrator)
Williams, Robin (Including set by Jane Bown)
Williams, Archbishop Rowan (Set by Jane Bown)
Williams, Shirley (1967-81) (Including sets by Don McPhee, Neil Libbert, Frank Martin, Kenneth Saunders and an unsigned illustration)
Williams, Shirley (1982) (Including sets by Jane Bown and Neil Libbert, and an unsigned illustration)
Williams, Simon
Williams, Tennessee (Including sets by Jane Bown and Peter Johns)
Williams-Ellis, Anabel (Set by Peter Johns)
Williams-Ellis, Clough
Williamson, Prof Bob (Set by Jane Bown)
Williamson, David
Williamson, Malcolm
Williamson, Matthew
Williamson, Nicol
Williamson, Peter (Set by Jane Bown)
Williamson, Richard (Set by Jane Bown)
Williamson, Sonny 'Boy' (Set by Ray Green)
Williamson, Steve
Williamson, Sir Tom (Including sets by Don McCullin, Michael Peto and Philip Jones Griffiths)

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Willis, Miss (Set by Jane Bown)
Willis, Norman (Including sets by Jane Bown, Don McPhee, Dennis Thorpe, Roger Hutchings and Judah Passow)
Willis, Paul
Willis, Robert (Set by Peter Keen)
Willner, Hal (Richard Mildenhall)
Willock, Colin (Staff)
Willocks, Tim (Set by Jane Bown)
Willsher, Brian
Wilmer, Clive
Wilmot, Gary (Set by Jane Bown)
Wilmot-Sitwell, Peter (Including set by Jane Bown)
Winfrey, Oprah
Wilson, AN (Including sets by Jane Bown and Eamonn McCabe)
Wilson, Sir Alan (Don McCullin and Stuart Heydinger)
Wilson, Alexander (Sets by Jane Bown)
Wilson, Alfred (Set by Jane Bown)
Wilson, Amrit (Set by Jane Bown)
Wilson, Andrew (Staff)
Wilson, Angus (Including sets by Jane Bown and David Sim)
Wilson, August
Wilson, Brian (Including set by Murdo MacLeod)
Wilson, Charles (Newspaper editor)
Wilson, Charles, (Set by Karsh) (US Defence Secretary)
Wilson, Christopher
Wilson, Prof Colin
Wilson, Colin (Including set by Jane Bown)
Wilson, David (Staff)
Wilson, Des (Including set by Jane Bown)
Wilson, Gerald
Wilson, Gerald 7 Gareth (Set by Frank Martin)
Wilson, Gordon
Wilson, Harold (1960-63) (Including sets by Don McCullin and Phillip Jones Griffiths)

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Wilson, Harold (1967-69) (Including sets by David Newell Smith, Stuart Heydinger, Bryn Campbell, Neil Libbert and Chris Smith)
Wilson, Harold (1970-73) (Including sets by Jane Bown, Peter Johns, Frank Martin, David Newell Smith, Bryn Campbell)
Wilson, Harold (1974) (Including sets by Jane Bown, Peter Johns, E Hamilton West, Don McPhee, David Newell Smith, Frank Martin, Kenneth Saunders, Neil Libbert, Anthony Vincent, and Derek Cattani)
Wilson, Harold (1975) (Including sets by Peter Johns, Robert Smithies, Kenneth Saunders, E Hamilton West, Frank Martin and Don Mcphee)
Wilson, Harold (1976) (Including sets by Peter Johns, Frank Martin, E Hamilton West, Eamonn McCabe, Kenneth Saunders and Don McPhee)

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Wilson, Harold (1977-95) (Including Memorial Service)
Wilson, Jaqueline
Wilson, Kevin (Staff)
Wilson, Lisa (Set by Jane Bown)
Wilson, Mary (Including sets by Jane Bown, David Newell Smith, E Hamilton West, Peter Johns and Kenneth Saunders)
Wilson, Max (Set by Jane Bown)
Wilson, Paul (Staff)
Wilson, Paul (Staff)
Wilson, Sir Richard (Cabinet Secretary)
Wilson, Richard (Actor)
Wilson, Richard (Including set by Jane Bown)
Wilson, Richard (Staff)
Wilson, Robert (Including set by Jane Bown)
Wilson, Robert Anton (Set by Jane Bown)
Wilson, Sandy (Including set by Jane Bown)
Wilson, Scottie (Set by Jane Bown)
Wilson, Snoo (Including set by Jane Bown)
Wilson, Tony (Set by Ged Murray including transparencies)
Wilton, Penelope (Including set by Nobby Clark)
Wiltshire, Stephen
Wincer, Simon
Winchester, Simon (Including set by Jane Bown)
Windsor, Barbara (Including sets by Neil Libbert and Peter Johns)
Wing, Anna
Winn, Denise (Set by Jane Bown)
Winner, Michael (Including sets by Jane Bown, Eamonn McCabe and E Hamilton West)
Winstanley, Michael (Including set by Jane Bown)
Winston, Dr Robert (Including sets by Frank Martin and Eamonn McCabe)
Winstone, Ray
Wint, Guy (Staff)
Winter-Bottom, Michael
Winters, Bernie
Winters, Shelley
Winterson, Jeanette (Including set by Jane Bown)
Winton, Tim (Including set by Jane Bown)
Wintour, Charles
Wintour, Eleanor (Set by Jane Bown)*
Wintour, Patrick (Staff)
Wireko, Joe (Set by Jane Bown)
Wisdom, Norman (Including set by Don McPhee)
Wise, Audrey (Including set by Jane Bown)
Wise, Ernie
Wise, Robert
Witheroe, John
Withers, Bill
Witt, Rev Howell (Set by Jane Bown)
Wiwa, Ken
Wodehouse, P G (Agency)
Wodiczko, Krzysztof
Woerner, Manfred

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Wogan, Terry (Including set by Jane Bown)
Woldridge, Max (Observer writer)
Wolf, Naomi
Wolf, Rita
Wolfe, Brian (Set by Tony McGrath)
Wolfe, Tom
Wolfenden, Lord John
Wolff, Dr Charlotte
Wolff, Prof Heinz
Wolff, Tobias
Wolfit, Sir Donald
Wolfit, Margaret (Set by Jane Bown)
Wolfson, Sir Brian (Including set by Sally Soames
Wollaston, Sam (Guardian staff)
Wolmar, Christian (Set by Jane Bown)
Womack, Cecil and Linda
Wombles, The
Wonder, Stevie (Sets by Tony Prime and Allan Titmuss)
Wong, David
Wontner, Sir Hugh (Set by Ian Bradshaw)
Woo, John
Wood, Charles
Wood, David
Wood, Deirdre
Wood, Derek (Set by Jane Bown)
Wood, Sir Fred (Including sets by Jane Bown, Eamonn McCabe and David Newell Smith)
Wood, Georgie
Wood, Hugh
Wood, John (Including set by Nobby Clark)
Wood, Sir Ken (Set by Sally Soames)
Wood, Michael
Wood, Mrs Muriel (Set by Jane Bown)
Wood, Peter
Wood, Bishop Richard (Set by Jane Bown)
Wood, Tricia
Wood, Victoria
Wood, Wilfred
Woodcock, Clive (Guardian staff)
Woodcock, George (Set by Robert Smithies)
Woodcock, George (Including sets by David Newell Smith, Neil Libbert, Tony McGrath, Eric Wadsworth and Peter Johns)
Woodcock, Leonard
Woodeson, Nicholas (Portarit by Richard Mildenhall)
Woodford, Guy
Woodham, Dai (Set by Jane Bown)
Woodhead, Chris
Woodhead, Leslie
Woodhouse, Adrian (Set by Jane Bown)
Woodhouse, Barbara (Including set by Jane Bown)
Woodhouse, Gary (Staff)
Woodlawn, Holly (Including set by Jane Bown)
Woodrow, Bill
Woodrow Wyatt, Lord (Including sets by Jane Bown, David Newell Smith and David Sim)
Woods, Donald (Including Eamonn McCabe and Peter Johns)
Woodvine, John

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Woodward, Bob (Set by Neil Libbert)
Woodward, Edward (Including set by Peter Johns)
Woodward, Joanne (Including set by Eamonn McCabe)
Woodward, Louise
Woodward, Peter (Set by Jane Bown)
Woodward, Roger (Set by Tony McGrath)
Woodward, Sarah
Woof, Emily (Set by Dod Miller)
Woolas, Phil
Wooldridge, Susan
Woolf, Lord
Woolf, Virginia (Including old damaged print)
Woollacott, Martin (Guardian Staff)
Woolton, Lord (Including sets by Jane Bown and Karsh)
Wootton, Baroness (Including sets by Peter Keen and Jane Bown)
Wordsworth, Barry
Worlock, Derek
Worrall, Denis (Including set by Jane Bown)
Worral-Thompson, Anthony
Worrell, Trix
Worsley, Sir William (Set by Peter Keen)
Worsthorne, Peregrine (Including sets by Jane Bown and Eamonn McCabe)
Worth, Harry
Worth, Irene (Including sets by Jane Bown and Peter Johns)
Worthy, Johnny
Wouk, Herman (Sets by Jane Bown and Karsh)
Wozencraft, Kim
Wrigglesworth, Ian
Wright, Bob (Including set by Jane Bown)
Wright, Frank Lloyd (Karsh)
Wright, George (Including set by Jane Bown)
Wright, Gordon (Set by Jane Bown)
Wright, Dr Helena (Set by Tony McGrath)
Wright, Ian (Staff)
Wright, Jonathan (Set by Jane Bown)
Wright, Jules (Including set by Jane Bown)
Wright, Nicholas
Wright, Patrick
Wright, Sir Peter (Including sets by Jane Bown and Richard Mildenhall)
Wright, Peter (Set by Jane Bown)
Wright, Robert
Wright-Penn, Robin
Wright, Ronald
Wroe, Martin (Staff)
Wrong, Henry (Including set by Jane Bown)
Wurtzel, Elizabeth
Wyatt, Robert
Wyatt, Will (Including set by Jane Bown)
Wykeham, Lady Barbara (Set by Jane Bown)
Wyman, Bill
Wyndham, Francis
Wyndham, Joanna (Set by Jane Bown)
Wyngarde, Peter (Including set by Jane Bown)
Wyn Jones, Ievan
Wynne, David
Wynne, Greville
Wynne Jones, Diane
Wynn Ellis, Nesta
Wyszynski, Cardinal (Set by Karsh)
Creator: The Observer Limited; Picture Desk; Observer Picture Library

Interview with Robert Smithies, photographer for the Guardian. Conducted by David Ward on 22 August 2001. Also includes a data sheet containing biographical details about the subject and information about the recording and a track guide.

Summary contents of interview (with rough timings):

Disc 1:
Track 1
Test

Track 2
00.20 How he became a Guardian staff photographer
02.50 Tom Stuttard
06.00 John Anderson
07.20 First meeting with AP Wadsworth - told he cannot be employed because the Evening News will not let him go
09.47 Meeting Tom Stuttard again after 18 months and finally becoming employed

11.05 Preferred style of photography
13.12 Reproduction of his photographs
16.02 Most successful picture he took was of Louis Armstrong
18.05 Sharing a flat with the cartoonist Papas and moving on to a modern type of camera

21.30 How little time there was to find good photographs
25.00 'Pictures never were and never will be [of the same importance] at the Guardian as writing'
29.00 Moved from Manchester to London in 1958 and then back to Manchester in 1965
29.00 Atmosphere change when the editorship moved to London

32.00 Reason for leaving in 1974 - 'No more challenges'
34.30 Reaction within the paper to the large-scale move to London
37.00 Ethos and 'cohesion' of Guardian journalism

40.28 The decisions that affect policy are now taken by accountants
42.30 Michael Frayn and his relationships with reporters
46.20 Sneaking into Balmoral Castle, Aberdeenshire to try to photograph the President and the Queen
49.20 Drinking with Brendan Beehan in 1959

57.00 Photographing opera and theatre in Covent Garden

62.00 Differences between interviewing in his time and the press-junket culture today
65.00 Differences between being a 'snapper' and a 'literate Guardian photographer
65.00 The importance of knowing the subject you photograph
66.38 Geoffrey Moorhouse

70.40 Basic enjoyment of working as a photographer
72.00 Alastair Hetherington

Includes photographs of:
Wakefield, Marjorie
Walder, David
Wall, Michael
Ward, David
Ward-Thomas, Pat
Watts, Janet
Weatherby, William John
Webb, William Leslie
Weiss, Ruth
Whewell, Harry
White, Michael
Wilcox, Paul
Willis, Pauline
Wilshaw, Harold
Winchester, Simon
Wintersgill, Donald
Wolstencroft, Frank
Woodcock, Clive
Worrall, John
Wren, Mike
Wright, Hannah
Wright, Ian
Creator: Manchester Guardian; Picture Desk; Manchester Picture Library

File containing material relating to work experience opportunities in the northern/Manchester office for students and London based staff.

Contains reports, memorandum and correspondence relating to: the promotion of Manchester based placements for London staff; staff that have previously undertaken placements; general organisational arrangements for student placements; a proposed placement arrangement for staff within the GMG group i.e Stockport Express (1995); work shadowing placements from Greenhead College (2004) and the Yorkshire Young Journalists work experience scheme in conjunction with BBC Look North and the Yorkshire Evening Post (1997-1998).
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited

Files containing mixed material predominantly relating to the Guardian's northern/Manchester office:

File 1 contains correspondence and memorandum relating to the future of the northern/Manchester office and social events including Guardian northern Wayzgoose, copies of letters from politicians to CP Scott now held at the Manchester Guardian archive at John Rylands University Library (1910-1919) and a collage of images promoting the Manchester office.

Files 2-3 [originally 1 file] contain correspondence, reports and memorandum relating to: the Manchester Guardian archive at the John Rylands University Library, IT/editorial system instructions; editorial cost savings/redundancy (2012); the Notherner (a weekly email digest of the North's media), an article about conscientious objectors; a Guardian-orgainised walk; the future of the northern/Manchester office; an article abour the Leeds supertram; Guardian social events; events at which Wainwright gave a talk including the Guardian Open Weekend (2012); the Hutton inquiry; a Guardian redesign (2004); an Israel/Palestine event (nd); interviews with Geoffrey Moorhouse, Harry Griffin and Miranda Hetherington for the GNM Archive oral history project; cromacheck; VPN setup instructions; copytaking services (1999), the sleaze draw and Christmas appeal (1999) and regional coverage (1999).

The files also contain: a flatplan (6 March 2003), a tribute to Alan Dunn; a draft Guardian chronology; mixed correspondence including reader letters and the following internal papers:
'Training module 4a: Mail and Wires for Remote Users' (nd);
GMG Health care scheme (2001).

Key correspondents include Ian Mayes, Hugo Young, Peter Preston and Alan Rusbridger.

File 4 contains correspondence, reports and memorandum relating to: Guardian social events; work experience placements; the Berliner redesign; northern coverage in the Guardian; the 'A Long Exposure' photography exhibition at the Lowry (2008); a scarf featuring map of Europe by the Manchester Guardian; company mobile telephones; David Ward leaving the Guardian; changes arising from the new GNM NUJ House agreement (2008); staff discussion about changes at the Guardian (2006) and a home computer initiative (2004). The file also includes an original portrait of Martin Wainwright by Nicola Jennings, some mixed correspondence including reader letters and the GMG Company car policy and driver handbook (March 2005).

File 5 contains correspondence, reports and memorandum relating to: Guardian social events; a charity appeal (1999); regional coverage; a training scheme; the Newspaper of the Year presentation (1991), flexible working policy, events at which Wainwright gave a talk; the 'You Have What I Saw' Don McPhee exhibition (2011); flooding Focus Podcast; new technology; Holmfirth fair traders co-operative; an article about Cardinal Newman's exhumation (2005); the Northerner; the Bribery policy (2001) and David Ward leaving the Guardian. The file also contains a publicity leaflet detailing nothern staff (nd), Martin Wainwright's speech notes and mixed correspondence including reader letters.

File 6 contains correspondence relating to use of spare space in Manchester office, office technology, Guardian social events and Profile usage. The file also includes a Guardian North Christmas card.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited