Hey, it's Tara. So today we have something a little different. Condensing Robert Maxwell's

story down to eight episodes meant we had to leave some great stuff on the cutting-room

floor. There was only space for so many stories about Robert Maxwell, you know, pissing off

the media, the British public, and Elton John. But there was one interview that we knew

we had to fit in. And I went to see the editor of the Guardian after I got this offer from

Maxwell. And he said he was really surprised that Maxwell had offered me the job. But he

said, if you don't take it, you might regret it for the rest of your life. And I think he

was right. I'm Tara Pomerie. Today on Power, the Maxwell's, Julia Lendon, and Life in Max

William.

My name is Julia Lendon. I was a political editor of the Daily Mirror for five years when

Maxwell bought the newspaper. Julia Lendon was working on the politics desk at the Guardian

newspaper in London when she got a call from Maxwell. Lendon accepted the offer and became

the first woman to become a political editor of a National Daily newspaper in the UK. She

spent five of the seven years Maxwell owned the paper, working and traveling with Maxwell.

When she took that job offer, she didn't quite realize how much her life, as well as her

career, was about to change. When it first weekend in his employment on the Saturday, which

is the day off for weekday journalists at that time, and on that Saturday of my first

week, I had Maxwell come on. There was a story involving the first test tube baby born

in Britain. And he said, I want you to get hold of these Secretary of State for Health

and the Opposition Secretary of State and all the Secretary of State you can find anywhere.

And I ended up writing this splash in the Sunday papers of the newspaper of the group,

which was not my job and I was extremely resentful. And on the Monday morning I went out and

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