Hitler Diaries | Interview | 4
British Scandal
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🗓️ 26 July 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Matt and Alice speak to Robert Harris, best-selling writer and author of the definitive account of the scandal, 'Selling Hitler'. They discuss the scandal's farcical cast of characters, its impact on 'Fake News' culture, and the crudeness of the forgeries themselves.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Prime Members. You can listen to British scandal at free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. |
| 0:06.0 | From Wondering, I'm Matt Ford and I'm Alice Libby. And this is British scandal. |
| 0:24.0 | So Alice, that's it for the extraordinary story of the Hitler-Dieries hoax. And I still can't believe |
| 0:37.6 | how basically everyone in this story wants to push ahead with the publication of these things, |
| 0:42.2 | even though it was so obvious that they were fake. Yeah, this could have just been a bizarre moment |
| 0:48.7 | of opportunistic greed, but actually it was this incredible watershed moment which put |
| 0:55.2 | public trust in the press into question. And that idea that journalists will do anything for |
| 0:59.9 | the scoop is perfectly crystallised here. Yes, and not just at tabloids at the Sun and the |
| 1:04.5 | News of the World, but at reputable broadsheets at the Sunday times. Yes, I was starting to worry |
| 1:09.0 | because we haven't mentioned our old friend Murdoch in at least five minutes. He was of course at |
| 1:12.8 | the helm showing that truth was a definite second priority to getting those papers sold. Yes, |
| 1:18.8 | and it sold a lot of papers and someone joining us today knows a lot about selling a lot of books |
| 1:23.7 | with Robert Harris, one of the UK's most successful novelists, also wrote the most comprehensive |
| 1:28.9 | retelling of the hoax. His book, Selling Hitler, remains the definitive account of the Hitler-Dieries |
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