Peter Chippindale

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. ISBN 978-0704332119.
• The Thorpe Committal (1979) Arrow Books. ISBN 978-0099204008.
• The British CB Book (1981)
• Disaster! The Rise And Fall of News On Sunday (1988) with Chris Horrie. Penguin. ISBN 978-0747402305.
• British Monarchy Plc: An Offer for Sale by Tender (1998) J. Bath. ISBN 978-1854200167.
• Stick It Up Your Punter! (1990) with Chris Horrie. ISBN 0434126241.
• Dished! (1991) with Suzanne Franks and Roma Felstein. Simon & Schuster.
• Life As Sutch (1991) HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0207172403.
• Mink! (1995) Pocket Books. ISBN 978-0671854201.
• Laptop of the Gods (1998) Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0684816135.