The Clean Slate Campaign: summary of Media Coverage

National Press

• 23 April: News item in The Daily Telegraph. Follow up letter from the campaign Chairman printed the following day.
• 9 November: Libby Purves in The Times.
• 13 November: Ian Wooldridge in The Daily Mail.
• 2 December: Daily Telegraph report on Reform Club event.
• 11 December: The Times — Ann Widdecombe and the Chief Rabbi, each in their personal column.

Regional Press

• 27 April: Dick Godfrey of the Newcastle Journal wrote about the CSC in his column.
• 11 June: 'Resolve to wipe the slate clean' - Feature article by Jennifer Cunningham in The Herald (Scotland).
• 16 June: News item in the Nottingham Evening Post.
• 10 July: News item in The Daily Echo (Bournemouth).
• 18 December: feature by Paul Eddy in The Daily Echo (Bournemouth).

Local Press

• 23 April: News item and photo in the Oxfordshire daily, The Oxford Mail. Follow up letter from the campaign Chairman in the following week.
• 22 July: Sidcup & Blackfen Times.
• 22 July: The Abingdon Herald.
• 12 August: Newbury Weekly News.
• 21 October: Kentish Express.
• 29 October: Kent Messenger Extra.
• 12 November: The Oxford Times.
• 13 November: Peter Unsworth: feature in the Oxford Mail.
• 3 December: The Oxford Mail.
• 6 December: The Oxford Mail.
• 30 December: The Weekly News (Llandudno, N Wales).

Religious Press

• 8 January: The Catholic Herald, January: Ann Widdecombe MP wrote about the Clean Slate Campaign as one of two Millennium initiatives she wants to commend.
• 23 April: Front page article in The Church Times. Follow up letter from the campaign Chairman printed the following week.
• July and November: Magnet (Methodist Network magazine).
• October: Life & Work (Church of Scotland magazine).
• 3 December: The Jewish Chronicle.
• 4 December: The Tablet.
• 10 December: The Catholic Herald.
• 18 December: The War Cry (Salvation Army).

Other Press

• February: The editor of Food Marketing and Technology, Ian Healey, wrote an editorial about the campaign.
• November: Relate News.
• 11 December: AI-Quds Al-Arabi — Arabic newspaper im n London.

Radio

BBC World Service

• 3 December: the campaign Chairman interviewed on 'The World Today' — est. 20 million listeners.
• 19 December: the campaign Chairman interviewed on 'Talking Point'.

BBC Radio Four

• 10 November: Indarjit Singh, 'Thought for the Day'.

BBC Radio Five Live

• 24 April: the campaign Chairman Edward Peters on early morning programme.
• November: 'Sunday Service' — presenter Fiona Glover, mentioned CSC two weeks running.
• 27 December: the campaign Chairman Edward Peters on 'Up All Night'.
• 29 December: the campaign Chairman Edward Peters on 'Late Night Live'.

BBC Radio Scotland:

• 29 November: Rev John Chambers, 'Thought for the Day'.
• 1 December: Rev John Chambers on Lesley Riddock Show.

BBC Radio Wales

• 18 June: the campaign Chairman Edward Peters on 'Live Time' and 'A Voice for All'.

BBC Radio Thames Valley

• February: Christine Zwart, editor of 'The Door', mentioned CSC.
• 29 April: the campaign Chairman interviewed on `Good Morning Oxfordshire'.
• 24 May: the campaign Chairman interviewed on `Good Morning Berkshire'.
• 19 September: Revd Michael Chantry, Chaplain of Hertford College, on Sunday morning programme.
• 17 October: the campaign Chairman on Sunday morning programme.
• 3 December: the campaign Chairman on afternoon programme.
• 31 December: the campaign Chairman on mid-morning programme.

BBC Greater Manchester Radio

• 1 July: Neville Nagler interviewed on their weekly Jewish programme — "five minutes about the general nature of the campaign and its particular relevance to Jewish people."

BBC Radio Cleveland

• 6 June: the campaign Chairman on Sunday moming programme.
• 5 December: the campaign Chairman on Sunday moming programme.

BBC Radio Merseyside

• 18 May: Nicholas Frayling and EP on Roger Philips' lunch time show.
• 1 December: Lord Mayor, Cllr Joe Devaney, and Nicholas Frayling on Roger Philips' lunch time show.

BBC Radio Newcastle

• 25 May: the campaign Chairman interviewed on early evening programme.
• 1 December: Cllr David Down on the lunch time programme.

BBC Radio Nottingham

• 14 June: Richard Hawthome and the campaign Chairman interviewed.

BBC Radio Northampton

• 13 May: the campaign Chairman on early evening show.

BBC Radio Suffolk

• 12 May: the campaign Chairman on breakfast programme.

BBC Radio Three Counties (Luton)

• 26 April: the campaign Chairman on breakfast programme.

Scot FM (Edinburgh/Glasgow)

• 24 June: the campaign Chairman on lunch time show.

Fox FM (Oxfordshire)

• 6 October: Lord Mayor of Oxford, Val Smith, and the campaign Chairman interviewed.
• 29 November: the campaign Chairman interviewed.

Greater London Radio

• 31 December: the campaign Chairman interviewed on afternoon show.

Television

BBC 1

• 7 November: the campaign Chairman Edward Peters interviewed live on 'The Heaven & Earth Show'. (1.1m viewers)

The Oxford Channel

• 25 November: the campaign Chairman interviewed live on 'The Oxfordshire Hour'.
• 29 November and 2 December: CSC featured.

Internet

BBC News Online

• 25 November: 'Starting 2000 with a clean slate', article on the campaign, followed by 'Talking Point'.

Overseas media

• ABC Radio Australia: interview with the campaign Chairman, broadcast October 10— David Busch.
• Union Jack, a US newspaper with a readership of 220,000, refers to the Clean Slate Campaign as `one of the most deceptively simple and yet potentially far-reaching propositions for marldng the new Millennium. Surely this ingenious British idea could well be taken up in other countries.'
• In the Malta Independent, under the headline 'The Church and Everybody Cleaning their Slate', Bjorn Ole Austad ends his article: 'Such a campaign would go to die heart of the trouble in many countries. Most of us point the finger at someone else when discussing what is wrong. We may, however, have ideas at the back of our minds about where we ourselves can begin. Some years ago a friend did something which offended me. I cut the contact and have not been in touch since. Malcing amends could wait no longer. A letter has been posted.'
• The Christian Science Monitor, 24 November, feature article on forgiveness by Michael Henderson.