Guardian Weekend (1988-2021) & the beer writer who appeared naked on the front cover
Today see the last issue of Guardian Weekend. It was first published in late 1988 with Alan Rusbridger as its Editor.
The cover of the first edition carried an (almost) naked picture of Richard Boston (1938-2006) the original beer columnist who did much to expose the realities of Big Beer in the 1970s and promote the early activities of CAMRA
At the beginning, the new Weekend Guardian was run on a shoestring. The first cover story was written by beer columnist Richard Boston – he’d gone on a trip to the south of France where he attempted to live with a group of naturists. But the Guardian refused to budget for a photographer to go with him – “So a London-based freelance, Nobby Clark, was dispatched to Aldworth in Berkshire to shoot a naked Boston in a deckchair,” Rusbridger says. Boston’s modesty was hidden only by a portable computer.
Guardian Weekend 18th September 2021
The Weekend supplement carried (and paid for) what I think was my first published column shortly afterwards. Unlike the Sunday Correspondent magazine picture of me in the bath I was fully clothed.
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