Mary Goldring
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Mary Goldring OBE is a British business journalist and broadcaster.
A trained economist, Goldring turned to journalism in the late 1940s and became a stalwart of The Economist, where for a long time she was its Business Editor. In the 1970s and 1980s she was also one of the main regular presenters of BBC Radio 4's flagship Analysis series of analytical authored current-affairs documentaries. She also made five series of television documentaries, the Goldring Audit, for Channel 4 screened from 1993 to 1998.
Mary Goldring became particularly noted in the late 1960s as the Economist's aviation correspondent, for her sustained and trenchant critique of the development programme for the Anglo-French Concorde supersonic aircraft, on the basis of noise, pollution and above all what she predicted would be disastrous commercial economics. An almost solitary voice of dissent at the time, her views turned out to be sadly well-founded.
[edit] Books
- Goldring, Mary Sheila (1957). Economics of Atomic Energy. London: Butterworths Scientific.
[edit] External links
- 'I said Concorde would be an expensive mistake. I was right.' BBC audio extract, 17 October 2003.
