Terry Kirby
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 20 Dec
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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.
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.
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