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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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.
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
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