Documento 7 - Linda Christmas

2 minidiscs, 2 cds, 1 file, 4 AIFF files (1.06 GB)

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

Access to recording via GNM Digital Repository

Copyright: Guardian News & Media Ltd and Linda Christmas