Described by Roy Greenslade in the Guardian as ‘the tireless archivist of
Fleet Street memories (many of which may be true)’, Revel Barker created
and edited a website that The Times called ‘a brilliant compendium of
reminiscences of the great days of Fleet Street.’
It ran for six years and in its heyday had more than 50,000 readers
worldwide, every week.
Now Barker has compiled the story of his own road to The Street,
interspersed with anecdotes about the people he met and wrote about – the
great and the good and the greedy – in politics, in business and in
show-business, in war and in peace… but mostly in newspapers.
