Peter Chippindale Explained

Peter Chippindale (4 July 1945 – 10 August 2014) was a British newspaper journalist and author. He was born to Keith and Ruth Chippindale in Northern India, where his father was a captain in the 11th Sikh regiment. As a child he attended Sedbergh School^[1]

He worked initially for The Guardian newspaper and was sent to Belfast at the height of The Troubles. Chippindale reported on the Birmingham Six trial^[2] and that of the Guildford Four and "he thought they'd got the wrong men in both cases".^[3] His suspicions convinced Chris Mullin to investigate and led eventually to their acquittal.^[4] In 1981 he worked on documentaries for London Weekend Television's The London Programme.^[5] He was news editor for the left wing News on Sunday and charted its demise with fellow ex-employee Chris Horrie in their book Disaster: The Rise and Fall of News on Sunday.^[6] He also co-wrote Stick It Up Your Punter!, a history of Rupert Murdoch's The Sun with Horrie.^[1]

Bibliography

• Juntas United (1978) with Ed Harriman. Quartet Books. .
• The Thorpe Committal (1979) Arrow Books. .
• The British CB Book (1981)
• Disaster! The Rise And Fall of News On Sunday (1988) with Chris Horrie. Penguin. .
• British Monarchy Plc: An Offer for Sale by Tender (1998) J. Bath. .
• Stick It Up Your Punter! (1990) with Chris Horrie. .
• Dished! (1991) with Suzanne Franks and Roma Felstein. Simon & Schuster.
• Life As Sutch (1991) HarperCollins. .
• Mink! (1995) Pocket Books. .
• Laptop of the Gods (1998) Simon & Schuster. .

Notes and References

1. Leigh, Peter. "Peter Chippindale obituary." The Guardian, 13 August 2014. Archived from the original. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
2. Web site: Six Irishmen accused of girl's murder | UK news | The Guardian . Peter . Chippindale . theguardian.com . 2014 . 19 August 2014.
3. Web site: BBC News - Birmingham Six 'were in the wrong place at the wrong time' . Clare . Lissaman . bbc.co.uk . 2014 . 19 August 2014.
4. Web site: Chris Mullin Ex MP . chrismullinexmp.com . 2014 . 19 August 2014.
5. Web site: Peter Chippindale | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster UK . simonandschuster.co.uk . 2014 . 18 August 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140819084204/http://authors.simonandschuster.co.uk/Peter-Chippindale/70310332 . 19 August 2014 . dmy-all .
6. Web site: John-Paul Flintoff: On the trail of Kelvin MacKenzie . flintoff.org . 2014 . Disaster: The Rise and Fall of News on Sunday . 19 August 2014.