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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It had more content aimed at women.
He was very concerned about aiming for women.
He was very much influenced by his mother, with whom he'd been reconciled after the incident with the chambermaid.
And his mother was always a strong influence on his life, right up until his death.
He was buried beside her.
uh, ultimately in, in Princeton Cemetery.
And, um, uh, uh, so, uh, and he, you know, his mother's view on these papers was, was, was very important.
Uh, the Daily Mail was an immediate success because it capitalized on this new class of, of, of commuters, um, uh, uh, mainly in the home counties initially, but also in, in the other big cities as well.
And, um,
And the Daily Mail was, I mean, to look at it today, it seems extraordinarily old fashioned and extraordinarily conservative with a small C and its approach and its look and everything.
But it was revolutionary in those days.
Stories were short and kind of punchier.
Again, there was a lot of, there was content on the household, the domestic world, on women's fashions, on cookery, those kind of areas.
And the Daily Mail, you know, is still very big on that.
I mean, there's this old maxim in British journalism that, you know, who reads different newspapers and, you know, I won't give you the whole one, but one of them was that, you know,
The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people that run the country.
The Times is read by the people that run the country, that kind of thing.
But the Daily Mail was a big success.
In the year 1900,
Pulitzer, Alfred Pulitzer, sorry, Joseph Pulitzer, who was the founder of the New York News, New York World newspaper, who introduced this concept of yellow journalism, which was much more extreme than some of what we'd seen on the Daily Mail, into the American climate, into New York.
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