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Go and Make the Tea, Boy! : Memories of life as a young reporter during the 1960s, Paperback / softback Book

Go and Make the Tea, Boy! : Memories of life as a young reporter during the 1960s Paperback / softback

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BEATLE haircut, one set of smart clothes to his name... and with a rock 'n' roll attitude hewn out of five resentful years at a boys' grammar school.

This was the 16-year-old John Phillpott who, in that long-lost summer of 1965, started out on a life-long career in Midlands journalism.

It was the era when a young trainee reporter could be sent to a fatal road accident one moment and ordered to make the tea for the entire editorial staff the next.

These were the days when a young journalist might cover a budgerigar show on a Saturday afternoon and a few hours later interview Ray Davies of the chart-topping Kinks.

Yes, it's all there in Go and Make the Tea, Boy! The reprobates, drunks and various other paid-up members of life's Awkward Squad all splash across these pages in glorious technicolor, as this no-holds-barred narrative of life on a provincial newspaper back in the Swinging Sixties gets into gear.

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