The Missing Mogul | Man in the Mirror | 3
Business Movers
Wondery
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
New owner of the Daily Mirror Robert Maxwell splashes the cash to expand his business empire, but when money becomes tight, he turns to unethical practices to make ends meet.
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| 0:00.0 | Want to get more from business movers? |
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| 0:09.4 | Join Wundry Plus in the Wundery app or on Apple Podcasts. It's 245 a. 2.5. It's a... |
| 0:23.0 | It's a... |
| 0:24.0 | It's 2.45 a.m. on July 14th, 1984 at the headquarters of Mirror Group newspapers in London. |
| 0:36.0 | 43-year-old Mike Malloy steps into the leather-paneled elevator reserved for company executives |
| 0:41.8 | and ascends to the ninth floor. An hour ago he was |
| 0:45.0 | asleep at home when his telephone rang. The voice on the other end of the line |
| 0:49.1 | ordered him into work immediately. The company chairman wanted to see him. |
| 0:53.0 | As editor of the Daily Mirror, Mike is used to pulling all-nighters when covering major stories. |
| 0:58.0 | But since there's no breaking news this morning, Mike can't understand why he's been summoned so urgently. |
| 1:04.8 | Mike makes his way along the plush carpet of the executive's hallway. |
| 1:08.8 | Light spills from underneath the closed door of Chairman Les Carpenter's office. |
| 1:14.0 | Mike knocks tentatively. |
| 1:15.0 | Come in. |
| 1:16.7 | Mike frowns because he doesn't recognize that voice. |
| 1:20.2 | Mike opens the door and it's not less sitting at the desk inside, but a large man with jet black |
| 1:25.2 | hair and a cigar clasped between his fingers. It's Robert Maxwell and he smiles. |
| 1:30.6 | Mike, come on in. |
| 1:32.0 | Mr. Maxwell, I was told the chairman wanted to see me. |
| 1:36.0 | He does. |
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