A Gloomy Prospect
Peter FiddickOne morning in January 1989, sitting peacefully at home on a couple of weeks holiday from The Guardian, trying to write a book, I received a phone call offering me the editorship of theListener. I never did write the book.
Here was a 60yearold weekly magazine, ranking in prestige with the New Statesman and theSpectator, but with the added attraction (for me) of being politically evenhanded by virtue of its ownership: founded by the BBC, it had two years earlier become a unique joint venture between...