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A disastrous foray into journalism is recounted in embarrassment.

Leonard Rossiter reads Barry Pilton's collated cogitations. A disastrous foray into journalism is recounted in embarrassment. From 1981.

"The paper's policy was to identify with the man in the street - and unfortunately, our man in the street seemed to have escaped from some sort of asylum."

A disastrous foray into journalism is recounted in embarrassment by Leonard Rossiter. 

Written by Barry Pilton. 

Producer: Louise Purslow

First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in March 1981.

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