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- 18 June 2001 (Creation)
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2 minidiscs, 2 cds, 1 file, 4 AIFF files (1.06 GB)
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Interview with Linda Christmas, journalist for the Guardian. Conducted by Isabel Milner on 18 June 2001. Also includes a data sheet containing biographical details about the subject and information about the recording. Tracks 2 and 3 on disc 1 are blank.
Summary contents of interview (with rough timings):
Disc 1:
Track 1
07.30 Mary Stott asked "can you write Guardian features in a Guardian way"
11.00 "Something about me and the Guardian that just fitted"
14.40 NUJ meeting about LC and manner which Peter Preston appointed her - "my copy was blacked"
16.00 Intimidating atmosphere at the Guardian was the same for all newspapers
29.00 "Love affair" with Guardian - not a job
Track 2
Test
Track 3
Test
Disc 2:
Track 1
02.30 Mary Stott advised "if it interests you, it interests your readers"' political stance - all journalists against something
11.00 Told by Guardian that she did not need money/decent salary as had high earning husband and no children
22.00 Very defined readership; Peter Preston referred to "fizz" and light-hearted' enormously broad subject matter
30.00 Media responsibility for society not respecting anything
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Access to recording via GNM Digital Repository
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Copyright: Guardian News & Media Ltd and Linda Christmas
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- Christmas; Linda ([1943-]); journalist (Subject)
- Milner; Isabel; press relations manager (Subject)