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Hella Pick
OHP/65 · File · January-June 2002
Part of Oral history project

Interview with Hella Pick, foreign correspondent and diplomatic editor for the Guardian. Conducted by Lucy Ward on two separate occasions, 23 January and 18 June 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 - recorded 23 January 2002:
Track 1
00.00 Joining the Guardian

10.30 Discusses Alastair Hetherington

Track 2
00.00 Her roles at the Guardian

Track 3
00.00 In 1975 offered her dream job as diplomatic correspondent, then diplomatic editor

15.54 Describes a typical day at work
26.15 Remembers the Cuban missile crisis

Disc 2:
Track1
00.48 Discusses colleagues including Alistair Cooke, Max Freedman, Alastair Hetherington, Geoffrey Taylor, Mary Stott and Simon Tisdall

12.15 Discusses Peter Preston

23.30 Alan Rusbridger as editor and how he has changed the newspaper
26.40 Hella on her background. She was a Jewish child refugee from Austria

41.00 Position as a woman

50.40 Her regrets
53.00 Asked what is the Guardian's distinctive ethos and identity?

Disc 3 - recorded 18 June 2002:
Track 1
01.01 Remembers the Cuban Missile crisis
03.12 Rememebrs the John F Kennedy assassination
07.30 Remembers the American civil rights movement

12.40 Other UN stories
16.53 Back in Europe and Geneva based in1968

22.09 Vietnam peace negotiations in Paris and 'student revolution'

31.20 Averell Harriman
33.40 Battles with Simon Winchester when covering Washington in 1972
37.00 Watergate

42.40 Her return to London
48.00 Flying to Moscow

52.15 Poland
57.00 Discusses Polish politician, Lech Walesa

63.45 Ceaucescu

Disc 4:
Track 1
00.40 Eastern Europe story started to change through the 1980s
09.40 Discussion of Gorbachev

Track 2
06.50 Feelings towards Germany

14.11 Discusses 1989
17.00 Yugoslavia

25.00 Career highlights including Reykjavik, Tito's long dying and death, the Watergate scandal, the Pope's visits to Poland and contacts with Polish leaders, and Commonwealth conferences including Thatcher on sanctions

 Pick; Hella Henrietta (1927-2024); writer and journalist
Hella Pick papers
Hella Pick papers
HHP · Fonds · 1946-2020

Personal and professional papers of journalist and writer Hella Pick. Includes correspondence with friends, family and work colleagues, research for her books and articles, newspaper cuttings including her Guardian cuttings books and ephemera from travels and events attended.

Administrative/Biographical history: Born in Vienna, Austria to Jewish parents in 1927, Hella Pick came to the UK alone as a child refugee on the Kindertransport in March 1939. Later joined by her mother, after an initial period in London she spent most of her remainder of her childhood in the Lake District before going on to study at the London School of Economics (LSE).

Pick entered the world of journalism in 1958 as commercial editor for the London based weekly magazine, West Africa. In 1961, Pick joined the Guardian initially as a freelance journalist but was quickly appointed as UN correspondent, one of the first female diplomatic correspondents in the British media. It was the start of a long career as a foreign correspondent at the newspaper covering political events across the globe for the next 35 years.

Pick later published her own memoir 'Invisible Walls' in 2021, which was her third book following 'Guilty Victim - Austria from the Holocaust' (2000) and her biography on Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal, 'A Life in Search of Justice' (1996).

She was awarded a CBE in 2000 for her work as a writer and journalist.

 Pick; Hella Henrietta (1927-2024); writer and journalist
Hello? Shelter?
LDG/1/1/4 · Item · [c1970-1974]
Part of Illustrations by Les Gibbard

Cartoon features Harold Wilson making a phone call in a public telephone box as he looks anxiously towards Edward Heath walking into [No.10 Downing Street] carrying two suitcases. Speech bubble read "Hello? Shelter?" [Possibly a reference to the British charity for the homeless - Shelter].

 Gibbard; Leslie David (1945-2010); cartoonist
Helmut Kohl
GEM/4/1/4/3/182 · File · c April 1990
Part of Records of Gemini News Service

Three illustrated portraits and one photographic portrait of Helmut Kohl.

 Gemini News Service (1967-2002); news agency