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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Titbits kind of capitalized on this idea of
but the middle classes of kind of informational journalism.
There'd be stories about discoveries, stories about strange animals being discovered during the kind of great Victorian era of exploring the globe and empire building, tidbits of information, you know, how much does a diver suit weigh, I think was one of the things.
How do you train a guide dog?
So it was all sort of fancy that kind of thing.
And these were bright, popular magazines that sold quite well in the era.
And Hemsworth went to work for one of those.
And then he started producing his own magazines.
He'd already...
worked on the school magazine in north london so he knew he could write a bit and he was entrepreneurial and he started producing his own magazines and um uh basically from his from his uh the house when he by the time he was in his sort of uh very early 20s he married and his wife helped him produce his magazines and um uh he he
He was so confident of the success of these magazines that he numbered the first one, he numbered it as number two and part of the kind of spiel on it was that this was the most amazing success and everyone had loved the first edition and the first edition never existed.
So he was selling stuff very heavily right from the start.
Anyway, he made quite a lot of money producing magazines for all kinds of
uh eras a lot of them wearing that young men things like you know sporting magazines cycling he was very big on cycling cycling magazines he's very interested in new stuff that was emerging during this era we're talking about the the kind of uh the 18 uh 80s early 90s kind of era and um
And Hemsworth made a lot of money as a very young man.
He was helped by his brother, who was more like the kind of money man.
And together, they then were invited at one point to run one of the many London evening newspapers.
And that's when he really moved on to a kind of different stage and a different level.
He was very ambitious and he started the Daily Mail, which he started publishing in 1894 and recruited some very well-experienced journalists, some of those that worked with him on the London Evening Newspaper.
And the Daily Mail was aimed at this new middle classes, basically.
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