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A Vanished World

Anthony Howard takes an autobiographical journey through fifty years in the newspaper industry. He gets his introduction to Fleet Street and meets Michael Parkinson.

Political journalist Anthony Howard takes an autobiographical journey through fifty years in the newspaper industry.

Howard gets his introduction to Fleet Street on the now defunct co-operative newspaper Reynolds News. Working on the Guardian in Manchester, he meets Michael Parkinson and declines an invitation from Lord Beaverbrook. Writer and historian Paul Johnson describes how Howard landed him with a libel action against The New Statesman.

15 minutes

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Wed 25 Jun 2008 20:45

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  • Wed 25 Jun 2008 20:45