Brian Redhead

Desert Island Discs

BBC

Society & Culture, Music Commentary, Music, Personal Journals

4.4 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 1986

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Brian Redhead has presented the Today programme for the last 10 years. In conversation with Michael Parkinson, he talks about his appearance on Children's Hour as a clarinettist, his early days as a journalist on the Manchester Guardian and his editorship of the Manchester Evening News. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Clarinet Quintet in B Minor - 2nd Movement by Johannes Brahms Book: Commentary on the Bible by Arthur Peake Luxury: Taj Mahal

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Kirstie Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs Archive.
0:05.3	For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.
0:08.4	The program was originally broadcast in 1986, and the presenter was Michael Parkinson.
0:30.0	My cast away today is the journalist and broadcaster Brian Redhead.
0:34.1	Brian, you've been a journalist all your life, and it occurs to me that journalists, in fact,
0:39.2	know from a very, very early age what they want to do, that they don't come into the job
0:42.5	by accident.
0:43.5	Would that be true of your case?
0:44.8	Oh, yeah.
0:45.8	Ever since the age of eight, I read a story in the hot spurt.
0:47.8	Not in the hot spurt, too.
0:48.8	And a man called Scoop Mallory, Ace Reporter, and I vowed there and then that I was going
0:53.2	to be a journalist.
0:54.2	And at the age of ten, I must have been being interviewed for the grammar school, you know,
0:57.6	the scholarship days.
0:58.6	It was the first year of the war, and we had the interview for some reason on whether
1:02.9	be station in Cumberland in the waiting room, which was open, just me and the headmaster,
1:07.5	Ebenezer Reese Thomas, and he said, what are you going to be when you grow up, Brian?
1:12.2	And I said, a reporter, a newspaper reporter, and he looked very pained.
1:16.1	What was it to think about the job that attracted you?
1:19.0	Was it the glamour of the job?
1:20.6	The nosiness.
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