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🗓️ 26 January 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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0:00.0 | Something else. |
0:07.0 | The millionaire publisher of the Daily Mirror, Robert Maxwell, has been reported missing from his motor yacht off the Canary Islands. |
0:16.0 | Well, we've just heard from the Air Sea Rescue Center at Madrid that a body has been found. |
0:24.0 | When the news of Robert Maxwell's death reached London, the response was polarised. |
0:29.0 | I remember feeling a real sense of disbelief, a slight sense of being deprived of a proper ending, |
0:36.0 | because he should have faced the music. |
0:39.0 | It went into all the offices. |
0:41.0 | Maxwell has gone missing. Anyway, everybody just started laughing. Could ridden it. |
0:46.0 | I sat at the typewriter and I couldn't even move my fingers. |
0:50.0 | And they were all these editorials that night saying, what had terrible, what had a loss, you know, what a wonderful man. |
0:58.0 | The Daily Mirror headline the next day was the man who saved the mirror. |
1:03.0 | Robert Maxwell's death sparked both outpourings of sorrow and laughter. |
1:09.0 | Today, Maxwell's beginning, how a man rose from a stedil in central Europe to become the despised head of a global media empire. |
1:19.0 | This is the story of an outsider so desperate to be accepted that he was willing to do whatever it took. |
1:25.0 | I'm Tara Paul-Marie, and from something else, this is Power, the Maxwell's. |
1:32.0 | Episode three, failing upwards. |
1:38.0 | Roy Greenslade will never forget that phone call from Robert Maxwell. |
1:44.0 | It was the morning after Christmas, 1989. |
1:47.0 | The telephone went at something like seven in the morning, and I rolled over and a booming voice |
1:54.0 | a booming voice. |
1:56.0 | Mr. Greenslade, I have the honor of offering you the opportunity to come and see me. |
2:03.0 | Roy was 42 years old. |
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