Exhibit JC42 - The Leveson Inquiry

For Distribution to CPsHacks and Dons - Teaching at the London University Journalism School 1919-1939: Its origin,development and influence.Appendix XLITranscript of interview extract with former Diploma for Journalism studentMargary Green (ne4 Woods) and extract from a letter written to Fred Hunterby Joan SkipseyGreen: Well, I always wanted to write from the very earliest days. I went then byvery happy chance to Cheltenham Ladies College, and then decided there and thenthat I was going to write. And from there I got stuff published in the schoolmagazine almost at once - poetry, you know, bad poetry, you know the sort youwrite when you’re sixteen. And from then on I got something published in Punch,when I was only eighteen. After two years at Cheltenham I went to the School ofJournalism at University College, because of my lack of matriculation, and I thinkthey said ’Your only way in would be through the journalism course, which runstogether with the librarianship course.’ So I chose that way in. People like OswoldDoughty and Middleton Murry gave lectures which were attended by all the peoplewho were studying for their degree.Hunter: You were studying for the Diploma?Green: I was studying for the Diploma, because they said I wouldn’t make thedegree.Hunter: But you still had to take the same exams papers?Green: I had to take exactly the same exam papers.Hunter: But when you were there, as a journalism student, there was really nojournalism taught?Green: Very little journalism. We did have outsiders coming in to give just a littleinformation, but...Hunter: This was 1921 to 19227Green: 1921 to 1923.Hunter: Can you tell us who was on the course with you?Green: here was Glenda Mosbacher [really Phyllis, graduated 1926], StellaGibbons was with me on it, and Elizabeth Bowen, who is now dead, but who wrotesome very good novels. It was not good enough for them, and they left before theend of the course and started writing novels. I think I must have read the first novelElizabeth Bowen ever wrote, because she asked me to go to her house and read itover, and I did.Skipsey: Most women on the London University journalism course in its early dayswanted to write novels, (see Chaper Ten) not news. Small wonder. Even thenewspapers that backed the course weren’t all crying out for women. When I leftschool at 16 in 1931, my parents, and one brilliant English teacher, thoughtjournalism was it for me. So did I. Their model was Rebecca West. I just wanted ajob. A saintly neighbour of ours was Chief Reporter of the Stratford Express (EastLondon). No women on his paper of course. But he took me to court with him,coached me and got my stuff into print with his. A freelance we met on holidaygave me more clues. Before long my clippings got me two jobs, both of which Ilost. But I’d heard of the London course at King’s in the Strand and got a place bythen. Professor G. B. Harrison accepted me. My impecunious Papa financed me,and I never looked back.299MOD100051470