Maxwell | Interview | 5
British Scandal
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4.4 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Matt and Alice talk to Roy Greenslade. He edited the Daily Mirror when Maxwell was the owner. He talks about what it was like to have Maxwell as a boss and the reason he thinks Maxwell's death was no accident.
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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. |
| 0:18.0 | From Wondery, I'm Matt Ford. |
| 0:20.0 | And I'm Alice Levine. |
| 0:21.0 | And this is British scandal. |
| 0:31.0 | So Alice, in some ways, Maxwell has been our most epic story. |
| 0:35.0 | Yeah, it kind of spanned the whole of the 20th century, Second World War. |
| 0:39.0 | So, Vietrussia, Maggie Thatcher. |
| 0:41.0 | Maxwell had a ringside seat in so many of these major world events. |
| 0:46.0 | But at the same time, this is also a family story. |
| 0:48.0 | Yeah, he had a huge impact on his children, of course, Glein Maxwell, which is another whole terrible scandal all of its own. |
| 0:55.0 | Yes, and that's Maxwell the man. But what about Maxwell the boss? What was he like to work for? |
| 1:01.0 | Okay, so who have we got? |
| 1:02.0 | We have got a Fleet Street legend. |
| 1:04.0 | We're talking to Roy Greenslade. He was the editor of the Daily Mirror when Maxwell was the owner. |
| 1:08.0 | He also worked for Rupert Murdoch, and he wrote a book about Maxwell, called The Rise and Fall of Robert Maxwell. |
| 1:14.0 | That's coming up next. |
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