Brothers grim: Inside the Barclays’ weird world

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

4.6 • 984 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Tell us what you think of The Bunker in our Listener Survey – five respondents will get the Bunker mug or t-shirt of their choice. The Barclay brothers were one of the most influential pairings in political life in recent decades. Born into a normal family, the duo became powerful, broadsheet newspaper owning billionaires. Despite that, very little is actually known about them. Professor Jane Martinson is the Marjorie Deane Professor of Financial Journalism at City University of London and author of You May Never See Us Again: The Barclay Dynasty: A Story of Survival, Secrecy and Succession. She joins Andrew Harrison in The Bunker. Buy You May Never See Us Again here and help the podcast through our affiliate link. • “Although they owned loads of newspapers, no one really knew anything about them.” – Jane Martinson • “They should have been one of Britain's greatest success stories… but it has not ended that way.” – Jane Martinson www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Group Editor Andrew Harrison. Producer: Chris Jones. Audio production: Alex Rees. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Music by Kenny Dickinson. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:11.6	Mention the Barclay Brothers, billionaire owners until recently of the Daily Telegraph on the Spectator,
1:17.2	and you think of three things. There's Private Eye characterising the duo, David, who died in 2021 at age 86, and his twin brother Frederick as
1:25.3	weirdos for their identical dress in the habit of doing everything together, even
1:29.1	finishing one another's sentences. This the Barclays of obsessive reclusiveness and litigiousness.
1:34.0	They built a private castle ford Breco off the Channel Island of Sark and equipped it with the private security force.
1:39.7	They fought bitterly with the neighbours in Sark.
1:41.7	And over the decades they've defended their
1:43.4	privacy aggressively suing the Times the BBC the observer John Sweeney and
1:47.9	others in the UK and France to keep their names and faces out of the media
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