Mary Sheila Goldring (born 1923 - died 2016) is a British business

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and broadcaster. An

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who graduated from

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, Goldring turned to journalism in the late 1940s and became a member of staff at ''

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'', where for a long time she was its Business Editor, rising to the rank of Deputy Editor alongside Norman McRae. She left the paper suddenly in spring 1974 following a dispute over its editorship in the wake of the surprise departure of Alastair Burnet, who left to become editor of the ''

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''. Goldring then moved to the BBC and meantime also wrote a weekly column for the ''

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'', edited at the time by Andreas Whittam Smith. In 1976 she became one of the main regular presenters of

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Radio 4's ''

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'' series of analytical authored current-affairs documentaries. She developed it into a flagship programme, staying with it until 1987. She also made five series of television documentaries, the ''Goldring Audit'', for

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screened from 1993 to 1998. In the late 1960s, Mary Goldring was ''The Economist''s aviation correspondent, a post in which she was highly critical of the development programme for the Anglo-French

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supersonic aircraft, on the basis of noise, pollution and above all what she predicted would be disastrous commercial economics.

Books

External links

'I said Concorde would be an expensive mistake. I was right.'
BBC audio extract, 17 October 2003.
“Replanning Britain’s Nuclear Power Programme”
The Journal of the British Nuclear Energy Society”, July 1964
Mary Goldring Filmography
the British Film Institute
ANALYSIS IN AFRICA! Chignell, H. (2003) ‘BBC Radio 4’s Analysis and Africa: How the flagship current affairs programme covered Africa in the 1970s and early 1980s’, The Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media, 1 (2) pp 101-111

References

British journalists British radio presenters British television presenters 2016 deaths Officers of the Order of the British Empire Alumni of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford 1923 births {{UK-journalist-stub