Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 20 November 2001 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
1 minidisc, 1 cd, 1 file, 8 AIFF files (710.6 MB)
Context area
Archival history
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Interview with Norman Shrapnel, journalist for the Guardian. Conducted by Murray Armstrong on 20 November 2001. Also includes a data sheet containing biographical details about the subject and information about the recording and an interview summary with track timings.
Summary contents of interview (with rough timings):
Disc 1:
Tracks 1-3
Test
Track 4
00.47 Began as general reporter in 1947
00.47 During time in Manchester he did subsidiary theatre and music hall notices
17.30 How he started doing back pagers
Track 5
04.30 On Michael Frayn
07.45 On Harry Boardman
08.15 Meeting Harold Macmillan
Track 7
00.07 Shrapnel was in the gallery when Churchill dropped his cough sweet
02.15 What was a day in the press gallery like?
11.30 On starting to write his sketch
Track 9
00.00 Theatre night-filing
02.55 On Philip Hope-Wallace
06.40 Shrapnel shying away from MPs
06.40 Reviewing modern literature for the Guardian for almost 40 years
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Access cd via GNM Digital Repository
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright: Guardian News & Media Ltd and Norman Shrapnel
Language of material
Script of material
Access Status
Open
Closed until
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Alternative identifier(s)
Access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Shrapnel; Norman (1912-2004); journalist (Subject)
- Armstrong; Murray; journalist (Subject)