October 2010 Archives

I was recently invited along to a lunch held by the Public Relations Consultants Association in Glasgow.

Speaker for the event was Lord Chadlington, the extremely fascinating and wildly entertaining chief executive of PR giant Hunstworth.

By sheer fluke I ended up on the same table as this public relations doyen as well as PRCA chief executive Francis Ingham.

It was an eye opening couple of hours in the basement room of Brian Maule's Chardon d'Or restaurant.

Lord Chadlington regaled the table then the room with his tales of the Mad Men type culture ("the programme underplays the amount of drinking which went on") which pervaded public relations when he started out.