Weekend extra: ROBERT MAXWELL’s cash from chaos

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 28 February 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Bully, liar, tyrant, fantasist, thief on a monumental scale – just ask the Mirror pensioners – and narcissist of an even greater magnitude, Robert Maxwell was a villain for whom the term “disgraced newspaper tycoon” seems pitifully small. Yet as former Evening Standard and Telegraph journalist John Preston’s new book Fall: The Mystery Of Robert Maxwell shows, the horror of Maxwell’s early life explains (if not excuses) the monster he became. How did Maxwell fool, and then fleece, the publishing world? “If you worked in Fleet Street in the 80s there was no escaping Maxwell…” “You have to seen Maxwell through the prism of what happened to his family in the Holocaust. There was enormous rage and guilt there.” “Robert Maxwell was gripped by a simultaneous desire to sit at the top table, and also to kill everyone else at that top table.” “Maxwell was both ridiculed and feared, often by the same people.” Presented and produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:14.8	magazine called Rage, Captain Bob's attempt to topple smash hits. I doubt he knew very much about
1:19.2	Rage or indeed 2000-A-D comic, which he also briefly owned and was next door. I left and got another job.
1:24.4	And two days later the body of Robert Maxwell was found floating in the Atlantic and my new
1:28.9	boss ran up to me and said, what did you know? I didn't know anything. Someone who knows everything about
1:33.9	Maxwell's life and very nearly everything about his mysterious death is John Preston,
1:38.1	author of Fall, the Mystery of Robert Maxwell. He's a former Evening Standard and Sunday Telegraph Arts Editor and the author of the
1:44.3	books that became The Dig on Netflix Now and the BBC's fantastic Jeremy thought drama, a very English
1:49.4	scandal and he's here with us today in the bunker. John, thanks for joining me.
1:52.3	No, thank you for joining me.
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