Terry Kirby
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660 appearances
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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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There was, there were, there were, we had the creation of the kind of commuting classes.
in the kind of explosion of industry and so forth.
And so there was a need for newspapers to cater for that class who didn't have the time or perhaps the education to spend hours reading through the long grey columns of the Times and the Telegraph.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, Harmsworth, this is where kind of what you might call tabloids with the kind of ideas of sleaze and the ideas of titulation and glamour and women in revealing poses and a focus on crime and sort of rather prurient ideas of what people might want.
This is where we get the introduction under Harmsworth of what we today would call more popular journalism.
of which you might say tabloid is part of that.
Harmsworth was something of a prodigy.
He was from a sort of middle-class Irish background family in London.
North London.
His father was a barrister and a drunk.
It was a large family.
They sort of weren't massively well off.
They sort of struggled along in the suburban area of North London.
Harmsworth, who was thrown out of his home for getting the chambermaid pregnant when he was about 17 or something, was this extraordinary figure who was immensely self-confident.
And he was tall, good-looking, clearly original intelligence, very ambitious.
And he went to work
for various sort of magazines that arose in that era, such as what Titbits, one of them, was called.
And Harnsworth worked for them for a little bit.
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