Encore: The Murdochs | Humble Pie | 85
Even the Rich
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🗓️ 26 October 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
The phone-hacking scandal doesn’t just threaten to bring down Rupert Murdoch’s empire: it might also tear apart his family. Siblings blame siblings. Rupert plays favorites. And Wendi seeks shelter from the storm in the arms of another man.
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| 0:00.0 | Wundery Plus subscribers can |
| 0:01.7 | the newest season of even the rich before anyone else. |
| 0:04.4 | Join Wundery Plus in the Wundery App or on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:07.8 | Just so you know, we're going to be swearing like sailors in this episode. |
| 0:11.6 | Yeah, really drunk sailors who super love to swear. |
| 0:22.2 | Picture this is |
| 0:23.0 | it's July 2011 and were in Central London in a chamber of the House of Commons. |
| 0:30.0 | Good afternoon everybody. This is a special meeting of the Culture Media and Sports Select Committee. |
| 0:35.6 | It is a follow-up to the inquiry which the committee held in 2009 into press standards, privacy, and libel. |
| 0:43.0 | Two weeks ago, the public learned that news of the world reporters hacked into the |
| 0:47.8 | voicemail of a young murder victim. |
| 0:50.3 | And remember, this is a tabloid that Rupert Murdoch owns. |
| 0:54.0 | Now he's here to answer for his paper's wrongdoing, |
| 0:57.4 | along with his second son, James. |
| 1:00.5 | There's actually a video of the hearing. In it you can see father and son sitting side by side. |
| 1:06.0 | James is looking way more serious than he did when he was running raucous records back in the day. |
| 1:11.0 | He's ditched the eyebrow piercing and traded his bleached blonde hair. his is stooped and a little frail. |
| 1:23.2 | His wife, Wendy, is perched behind them, |
| 1:25.6 | dressed in a pepto pink blazer. |
| 1:28.1 | A member of parliament asks James |
| 1:30.1 | about a nearly million dollar settlement |
| 1:32.4 | he authorized, ostensibly to buy the silence of |
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