Terry Kirby
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 20 Dec
Terry Kirby’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Good morning.
Good morning as it is in the UK here.
It's very nice to be talking to you.
Well, interesting enough, I was approached to write the book by the publishers.
And my initial reaction was, no, this has been done before.
I cannot believe that no one has actually written a kind of, you know, a sequential history book.
of tabloid journalism from sort of what you might call start to the present day.
But actually, there wasn't anything.
There's lots of individual memoirs by various tabloid journalists
There's a number of books that sort of look at the tabloid world in a kind of very jocular way, like, isn't this funny kind of thing?
And there's some academic works that...
which analyzed tabloid journalism in, frankly, a very dry and functional way.
There is one that was published only about three or four years ago, but it only looked at daily newspapers, and it didn't look at Sunday tabloid journalism, which, of course, is a crucial part.
in the evolution of tabloid journalism, what I might like to call the tabloid mentality.
So I realized there was a gap in the market for this, and no one had really attempted it before.
And once I got stuck into it, I perhaps realized a little why.
Because you're telling a story of culture and history and how that evolves over several centuries.
Because...
tabloid newspapers all newspapers are intrinsically involved in recording and reporting on the events of the era and the time so you have to you know to report
To write about that, you also have to understand certain things about the political climate of certain eras, things that went on that are long forgotten now.
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