[…] baby. I went to boarding school in England, at Benenden, and then to read modern languages at Oxford.And my career started by accident like all good journalists. I’d been mucking around after university, didn’t know what to do, and my father was working in an oil company in Iran, so I popped o[…]
[…] of mine said "Well if you want to become a journalist, don’t go and become a cub reporter in the […]
[…] publishing or television. You weren't particularly keen to be a journalist? Were you interested in news and current affairs? JB […]
[…]n I developed my interest at another level, and discovered what we might call art cinema, where there was popular cinema. Before that I had done some journalistic training on a financial paper. God knows what I did there, because I can’t remember! I did yields and things like that, but I don’t even […]
[…]rter on the news and there was only one.407’43”SRSo the idea was generally to get into publishing or television. You weren't particularly keento be a journalist? Were you interested in news and current affairs?JBYes I was interested in current affairs and politics which I probably should have read i[…]
[…]sp; And then I thought well, now what am I going to do as a job? And I had a feeling I wanted to be a journalist so I went down and saw Reuters and the Press Association and had written to them and they gave me an interview. Reuters hadn’t got a […]
[…]tory. Sometimes it's a bit more exciting than that but, you know, it's crucial that it's delivered every day! [45:02]I2: So how many video journalists are there? R: Well, there's a movement of how we do news as well which is kind of part of how the progress of television in general i[…]
[…], yeah, I did that. I worked after uni. I thought when I was at university, because I was the editor of the college magazine, that maybe I might be a journalist. So I'd, I'd applied for various journalism courses, and I actually got shortlisted for the Edinburgh, the Scotsman news Trainee Scheme, wh[…]
[…]watwas an important feature in getting World in Action into the sort of shape that it was. Tim was notreally a political animal as you know, he was a journalistic animal but he was on the side of theenquiring mind against the established mind. But in reality he was just a very very good roughjournal[…]
[…]t leads but to something because unfortunately after two or three years he died but his wife who lived in the same house, of course, happened to be a journalist and she wanted me to stay on and help her with typing, secretarial work which I did but of Course I’d never had any training at a11.I did t[…]
