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Grant Goddard’s Journalist Portfolio

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The Beach Boys’ disillusionment paralleled the demise of my mother’s North American dream: 1934-2021

The Beach Boys’ disillusionment paralleled the demise of my mother’s North American dream: 1934-2021

My mother had aspired to the ‘American Dream’ for decades. Like millions of others after the War, she believe…

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The day my world stood still [part three] : 7 October 1971 : Calvin Close, Camberley

The day my world stood still [part three] : 7 October 1971 : Calvin Close, Camberley

‘Patches’ had become a surprise number two UK hit single for blind southern soul singer Clarence Carter at th…

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The day my world stood still [part two] : 7 October 1971 : Kings Ride, Camberley

The day my world stood still [part two] : 7 October 1971 : Kings Ride, Camberley

Had I been born a century earlier, I suspect my parents would have bundled me off to climb up the insides of …

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The day my world stood still [part one] : 7 October 1971 : Speech Day, Strode's School, Egham

The day my world stood still [part one] : 7 October 1971 : Speech Day, Strode's School, Egham

Thursdays meant a trip to the newsagent to purchase that week’s ‘New Musical Express’ and a dash back to my c…

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Making world music's first international star : 1985-1988 : Ofra Haza, Tel Aviv & London

Making world music's first international star : 1985-1988 : Ofra Haza, Tel Aviv & London

In January 1985, I had arrived in Israel to work as a DJ on a radio station, but this was no ordinary radio. …

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I did not think the girl could be so cruel : 1989-1990 : Amanda Jane Lyons, BBC Radio

I did not think the girl could be so cruel : 1989-1990 : Amanda Jane Lyons, BBC Radio

July 1989. I had just broken up with my girlfriend of three years, after a particularly bitter confrontation …

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"People like YOU don't work in radio!"

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My mother had aspired to the ‘American Dream’ for decades. Like millions of others after the War, she believed that “every person has the freedom and opportunity to succeed and attain a better life” and has the right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" [Wikipedia]. What was unusual was that my mother had been born into a British working-class family in a small town (population 16,477) thirty miles west of London … and had never visited America.
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"People like YOU don't work in radio!"

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“At the age of thirteen I thought I was carrying the weight of the whole world on my shoulders …” ‘Patches’ had become a surprise number two UK hit single for blind southern soul singer Clarence Carter at the end of 1970 (written by General Johnson whose group ‘Chairmen Of The Board’ had just had a number three UK hit single with their wonderful debut ‘Give Me Just A Little More Time’).
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"People like YOU don't work in radio!"

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Had I been born a century earlier, I suspect my parents would have bundled me off to climb up the insides of neighbourhood chimneys for a few farthings. Things then would have turned out much worse for me, as my mother’s guidance for childrearing was apparently forged by her half-dozen visits accompanying me to 1964’s ‘Mary Poppins’ at the Camberley Odeon.
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Interview

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What was your first job as a journalist?

Features Sub-Editor @ 'Palatinate'.

How is social media changing news?

What were once opinions are now news. [Doobie Brothers]

Why did you become a journalist?

I volunteered on my student newspaper because there was no radio station there to join.