Robert Maxwell

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🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Ian Robert Maxwell (born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch; 10 June 1923 – 5 November 1991) was a Czechoslovak-born British media proprietor and politician.[1][2]

Of Jewish descent, he escaped the Nazi occupation of his native Czechoslovakia and joined the Czechoslovak Army in exile during World War II. He was decorated after active service in the British Army. In subsequent years he worked in publishing, building up Pergamon Press to a major academic publisher. After six years as a Labour Member of Parliament (MP) during the 1960s, Maxwell again put all his energy into business, successively buying the British Printing Corporation, Mirror Group Newspapers and Macmillan Inc., among other publishing companies.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome.
0:10.0	Citation needed. Hello and welcome.
0:23.7	Citation Needed, podcast where we choose a subject,
0:26.4	read a single article about it on Wikipedia and pretend we're experts.
0:30.0	Because this is the internet, and that's how it works now.
0:32.5	I'm Heath, and for today's espionage story,
0:35.8	I'll be our Dame Judy Dench.
0:39.2	I guess.
0:40.5	And I'm joined by our
0:42.0	Sean Connery,
0:43.3	Roger Moore,
0:44.1	Pierce Prousden,
0:44.8	and Daniel Craig
0:45.6	in whatever order.
0:47.1	Cecil,
0:47.7	Noah,
0:48.2	Tom,
0:48.4	and March.
0:50.2	Okay,
0:50.6	just because I have
0:51.2	the exact same accent
0:52.5	in every sketch I'm in,
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