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Just go to therestispolities.com. That's therestispolitics.com. Hi there, it's Alistair here. I have just recorded a mini-series about one of the most

consequential figures in global news, politics, culture, life in general over the past 50 years.

Gentlemen by the name of Rupert Murdoch. And with me today is not Rory Stewart. Instead, I'm with Michael

Wolf, who has known Murdoch for years. He's written several books on him and generally knows more

than most about this man. We go through his life from his start in Australia, through the time I

knew him when he was getting invocation involved in British politics into his creation of Fox News,

ending with his family's very own real-life succession battle. To give you a taste of it,

here's an extract from this week's episode. To hear the full thing and get all the benefits of a

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Rupert Murdoch. Keith Rupert Murdoch. I know that's his real name, and as you know, Michael, I'm always suspicious of people who don't use the name there, given at birth, but he was probably trying to differentiate himself from his father, also Keith. No, it's interesting. Why would you choose to be called Rupert if you could be called Keith? Keith. Keith is so much more Aussie than Rupert, isn't it? But here we are. Let's just explain to, we have lots of younger listeners. I'm sure most would have heard of Rupert Murdoch, but if you want to know why we think he's worth Michael and I sitting down for several hours to talk about him, he's a very, very consequential business figure. He's a deeply consequential political figure. He's a deeply consequential

cultural figure. And I think more specifically, you can make the case that he changed

the media landscape and the way the media changed forever. I think you can make the case

that probably wouldn't have Donald Trump as president without Rupert Murdoch and the way the media changed forever. I think you can make the case that probably

wouldn't have Donald Trump as president without Rupert Murdoch and the way that Fox News went.

Well, let's go further than that. I think you can argue that he is the most consequential figure

of the second half of the 20th century. Certainly, in terms of longevity, he holds power

longer than anyone else in our time. And it's meaningful power. It's phenomenal power. It's

not passing political power. Yeah. Well, I know we'll get into debate about the difference

between political power, media power, cultural power, business power.

But I think you can certainly make the case that if you were to list the 100 most powerful people in the world over every year in the last century, and he's been around for 94 of them, and he becomes fairly powerful in Australia, fairly young. He then becomes pretty

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