Terry Kirby
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first heard Dec 2025
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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.
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.
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