New podcast: Mugshots with Michael Crick

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News, Politics, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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New series preview: How much do we really know about the people who make the headlines? In a provocative new series the acclaimed journalist Michael Crick, formerly of BBC, C4 and Newsnight, delves into the backgrounds of the powerful and the influential. In this first episode: Few newspaper editors wield as much power as the Daily Mail’s Paul Dacre. Feared and courted by politicians, he’s imposed his singular vision of Britain on successive governments – while sometimes stretching the law in pursuit of justice. But what makes Dacre tick? What does he want? And how might this epic career end? Like this excerpt? Hear the complete episode on all platforms right now here. And subscribe for new episodes every Monday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, it's Andrew Harrison here with News of a brand new podcast that we're releasing
0:04.1	today, Monday the 13th of February. It's called Mugshots and it's written and presented
0:08.9	by Michael Crick, the legendary investigative journalist, formerly of Newsnight Panorama
0:14.1	and Channel 4 News. In Mugshots, Michael digs into the lives of the powerful,
0:18.8	the influential and the unscrupulous, with his trademark tenacity. It's a fantastic
0:23.7	listen and we're proud to be working with him. Here's a taster of the first episode,
0:27.7	which is about the dark emperor of the Daily Mail poll, Decker. You can hear the completed
0:32.1	edition right now. Just search Mugshots with Michael Crick on your favourite app and there's a
0:37.1	new one out every Monday, so be sure to subscribe. Now, enjoy a flavour of Mugshots with Michael Crick.
0:46.5	I think Paul Decker is without doubt the greatest tabloid editor of our era. I think our country
0:53.7	is, you know, if our politics is in a mess, I think he has to take some share of responsibility
0:59.2	for that. You know, quite often you get really red faced and really appalling and everyone was
1:04.8	like, carrying or hiding behind the pillars. He could be blamed for lowering the tone of debate
1:10.4	in our politics, making it a lot more aggressive, a lot less soable. There is no better mass
1:17.6	market at the 7th of Paul Decker. I'm Michael Crick. Welcome to the very first edition of the Mugshots
1:27.6	podcast. In this series, I'll be profiling many of the world's movers and shakers, exploring
1:34.9	their backgrounds, their beliefs, their paradoxes, how they got where they are today and what
1:41.6	makes them tick. And remember, these people are public figures with power over our lives.
1:48.1	In a free country or democracy, journalists like me don't just have the right to explore
1:53.4	who such people are. We have a duty to do so. And my policy is not to try and interview the subject
2:01.2	themselves, but to talk to people around them who know them well. Few figures are more controversial
2:08.5	than my first subject, Paul Decker. Soon perhaps to be Lord Decker. For more than 30 years now with
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