Terry Kirby
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660 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
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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And you have to remember in those days you had, uh, you know, the literature is certainly in the, in the United Kingdom.
Um,
There was low levels of literacy.
There was a sort of upper class, money class of people that had leisure and time, obviously before the era of television or even the internet.
They had the leisure and the time to read newspapers that had long dispatches in them, literary pieces, foreign dispatches, long reports on politics and courts and diplomatic issues and so forth.
And the Telegraph and the Times in that era dominated that kind of journalism.
There were attempts to produce what you might call informational news sheets for the new working classes, which were demanding literacy and so forth.
And then a more popular newspaper,
uh, idea arose through what we, we would used to call in, again, in the UK, the Victorian penny dreadfuls, which were, um, newspapers such as the illustrated police news, which had kind of rather gory and sleazy and explicit accounts of crimes and things like that.
Um, and there were quite a lot of those circular dating in the kind of middle Victorian era.
Um,
And they tapped into a sort of British, you know, amongst the working classes.
They were very visual.
They had lots of drawings, etchings, images.
And some of these sort of veered into titillation.
There were pictures of sort of...
female victims of crimes that they were sort of dressed in their underwear nothing like we would see today but in Victorian terms this was pretty outrageous and they were always they always had substantial bosoms and they were always kind of young and that sort of titillation thing became very very popular
And, and, and so there was this sort of need, you know, again, it was about tabloids grew up with a changing society.
There was a need, you know, there were, there were growing numbers of working classes.
Once the railways came along, there were, there were commute and, and eventually buses and so forth and trams.
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