Jean Stead
Jean Stead (b. 1926, Huddersfield, Yorkshire), is a reporter, national news editor for The Guardian, and labour historian.
Biography
Jean Stead was trained as a reporter on the Yorkshire Post, working as a reporter for 10 years in Leeds and London. In 1963, she joined The Guardian as a reporter, specialising in writing about housing and the homeless, immigration and race relations, and occasionally a columnist on the women's page. In 1968, she became a deputy to John Cole, then succeeded him as news editor from 1970-1979. She was later appointed Special Projects Editor, supervising investigative reporting, book serialisation, and specialist columns (e.g., legal column and motorcycling column). She became known for her international correspondence covering the motorcycle Grand Prix in Europe.
Stead also wrote extensively about the nuclear disarmament movement in Europe, particularly in Germany, at the height of the Cold War. She was threatened with arrest, and her exit visa was taken from her after she interviewed dissident writers under house arrest in the Soviet Union, while covering a Scandinavian women's peace march across the Soviet Union. Stead wrote the first articles about the women's protest against the siting of American Cruise missiles at Greenham Common, and its significance for feminism.
Podcasts:
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by Tahiti 80
John Steed
by: Tahiti 80When you're dressed in leather,
I could be John Steed forever
And even when, the sun is not here
You come home (?) like a cup of coffee
Chorus:
And, you, you don't know what you do
But you're always doing well
And even if I've got your picture
In my left shoe,
That doesn't help me
And when the sun is out,
I come home white as snow
And when I'm dressed in leather,
I look like the bloke from the Village People
Chorus:
And you, you don't know what to do
But you're always doing well...
And even if I've got your picture
In my left shoe,
That doesn't help
No, that doesn't help me that much