Name Peter Chippindale | Role Journalist | |
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Died August 10, 2014, Bodmin, United Kingdom Books Stick It Up Your Punter!, What is Islam?: A Compreh, Laptop of the Gods, Mink!, Juntas United! | ||
Peter Chippindale (4 July 1945 – 10 August 2014) was a British newspaper journalist and author.
Chippindale 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 along with his brother Christopher Chippindale, now an archaeologist.
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 and that of the Guildford Four and "he thought they'd got the wrong men in both cases". His suspicions convinced Chris Mullin to investigate and led eventually to their acquittal.
In 1981 he worked on documentaries for London Weekend Television's The London Programme. 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.
Chippindale co-wrote the "savage" book Stick It Up Your Punter! a history of Rupert Murdoch's The Sun with Chris Horrie.