Harry Schneider writes: Geoffrey Goodman (obituary, 7 September) was a radio producer's delight. Although a lifelong print journalist, he loved a medium for which his deep resonant voice equipped him well. Not only was he much sought after as a participant in political discussion programmes and as an expert on political, industrial and employment matters, but he was also a trenchant presenter of magazine programmes and documentary features. I had the good fortune of producing some of those on Radio 4 during the 1980s.
I valued his lucid and accessible scripts, his sensitive interviewing technique and his responsive attitude to the technical side of radio production (which distinguished him from some prima donnas who had never worked outside broadcasting). Above all, one could always rely on Geoffrey's inexhaustible list of contacts, not only in the labour movement and across the political parties but also among influential employers in business and industry.
Kenneth Morgan writes: Geoffrey Good man was the very embodiment of comradeship. He was immensely kind and generous to me when I wrote biographies of Jim Callaghan and Michael Foot. He recalled the past with passionate engagement but without rancour, as in memories of how his flat (like those of many others) had been broken into and burgled, perhaps by MI5, when he worked for Harold Wilson in 1975-76.
Last year, at a conference in Manchester, Geoffrey and I discussed whether Jim Callaghan really recanted his opposition to In Place of Strife in the light of the winter of discontent 10 years later. Geoffrey told me that Callaghan had done so in private conversation years later; I said that my own experience was the complete opposite. We concluded that we were both right and that Jim had said different things to each of us.